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Minority protection in voting mechanisms : experimental evidence
Engelmann, Dirk; Grüner, Hans Peter; Hoffmann, Timo; … - 2023
Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …
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How Trump triumphed: multi-candidate primaries with buffoons
Castanheira, Micael; Huck, Steffen; Leutgeb, Johannes Josef - 2020
While people on all sides of the political spectrum were amazed that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination this paper demonstrates that Trump's victory was not a crazy event but rather the equilibrium outcome of a multi-candidate race where one candidate, the buffoon, is viewed as likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299310
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How Trump triumphed : multi-candidate primaries with buffoons
Castanheira, Micael; Huck, Steffen; Leutgeb, Johannes Josef - 2022 - revised September 2022
While people on all sides of the political spectrum were amazed that Donald Trump won the Republican nomination this paper demonstrates that Trump's victory was not a crazy event but rather the equilibrium outcome of a multi-candidate race where one candidate, the buffoon, is viewed as likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013369063
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The political economy of negotiating international carbon markets
Arvaniti, Maria; Habla, Wolfgang - 2020 - This version: April 2020
International carbon markets are frequently propagated as an efficient instrument for reducing CO2 emissions. We argue that such markets, despite their desirable efficiency properties, might not be in the best interest of governments who are guided by strategic considerations in negotiations. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215277
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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
turns a plurality opposed to tuition into a strong majority of 62 percent in favor. Additional experiments reveal that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191568
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Did sanctions help Putin?
Peeva, Aleksandra - 2019
impact on voting. The US and the EU introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to Putin … effect on voting can be explained as rally-around-the-flag in the face of sanctions, as long as voters did not endure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012016315
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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019
support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033428
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Why should majority voting be unfair?
Breitmoser, Yves; Tan, Jonathan H. W. - 2017
and bargaining games from three seminal social preference experiments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762571
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Getting it right : communication, voting, and collective truth finding
Burdea, Valeria; Woon, Jonathan - 2023
We conduct an experiment in which groups are tasked with evaluating the truth of a set of politically relevant facts and statements, and we investigate whether communication improves information aggregation and the accuracy of group decisions. Our findings suggest that the effect of...
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Cloturing deliberation
Anesi, Vincent; Safronov, Mikhail - 2021
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