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This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment studying the role of asymmetries, both in payoffs and recognition probabilities, in a model of strategic bargaining with Condorcet cycles. Overall, we find only limited support for the equilibrium predictions. The main deviations from...
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A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
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incentives tounite, relative to larger regions. We show, however, that on thewhole, majority voting on separation and union …
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committee, in whicha subset of members may meet prior to the voting in the committeeand therefore has the possibility to reach … the setting of interest rates by the committee, provided thatmembers on average are equally skilled and voting takes place …
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We analyze a simple model of local public good provision in a country consisting of a large number of heterogeneous regions, each comprising two districts, a city and a village. When districts remain autonomous and local public goods have positive spillover effects on the neighbouring district,...
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qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …
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There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is … represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but … these abstract rules can usually not be implemented perfectly. To find voting systems that approximate these rules the so …
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There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting … the choice of voting systems based on such theoretical concepts, in this paper, I ask which systems individuals actually …
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Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The …
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voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe … exploit local transitory shocks to the cost of voting given by the rainfall on the day of the election. We find that migrants …
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