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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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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice

Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …

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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015

affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …

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The political economy of state and local Investment in pre-k programs

Kahn, Matthew E.; Barron, Kyle - 2015

The expansion of access to publicly provided pre-kindergarten bundles together redistribution to the poor with an early human capital investment. Financing publicly provided pre-K investment is mainly a state and local issue. Which voters favor local pre-K expansion? This paper uses several new...

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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 … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …

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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015

majority voting. Individuals vote according to their misperceived utility function. Consequently, excessive fat consumption is …

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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 …

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

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

voting is driven partly by human self-interest. Money apparently makes people more right-wing. …

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Who runs? : honesty and self-selection into politics

Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016

We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...

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Effects of welfare reform on women's voting participation

Dave, Dhaval; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - 2016

Voting is an important form of civic participation in democratic societies but a fundamental right that many citizens … do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s on voting of low income … women. Using the November Current Population Surveys with the added Voting and Registration Supplement for the years 1990 …

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