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An experimental study of voting with costly delay

Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015

A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority is reached. We study experimentally welfare properties of simple three-voter conclaves with privately known preferences over two outcomes and waiting costs. The resulting game...

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Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics : the role of immigration in shaping natives' political preferences

Barone, Guglielmo; D'Ignazio, Alessio; De Blasio, Guido; … - 2014

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right coalition, which has a political platform less favorable to immigrants. Additional findings are:...

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Does money make people right-wing and inegalitarian? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...

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The right look : conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011

Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...

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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design …

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Immigration policy and Hispanics' willingness to run for office

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bucheli, José R. - 2020

For the first time in U.S. history, approximately 10 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives is Hispanic. The greater engagement of Hispanics in national politics has occurred after unprecedented growth in interior immigration enforcement disproportionately impacting Latinos. Using...

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Voting power and survival : the case of a ruling party

Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2019

In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in the parliament. We develop a general probabilistic model of political crises and test it...

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What determines preferences for an electoral system? : evidence from a binding referendum

Riambau, Guillem; Stillman, Steven; Boe-Gibson, Geua - 2017

Much has been written about politicians' preferences for electoral systems, yet little is known about the preferences of voters. In 1993, New Zealand had a binding electoral referendum on the same day as the general election where voters chose between keeping a single plurality system (First...

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Upward income mobility and legislator support for education policies

Bellani, Luna; Fabella, Vigile Marie - 2018

This paper investigates how upward mobility affects legislator voting behavior towards education policies. We develop … the future economic status of the children is affected both by current public education spending and by the level of … upward mobility. Using a newly compiled dataset of roll call voting on California education legislation matched with …

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Voting as a war of attrition

Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018

We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...

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