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Voting as a War of Attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian - 2018
more often than simple majority. In a series of laboratory experiments, we investigate how various rules affect the outcome …
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Voting with Feet : Community Choice in Social Dilemmas
Gürerk, Özgür - 2010
cooperates, the alternative becomes depopulated. We analyze the success of this "voting with feet" mechanism and find that …
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Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments : Evidence from Audit Reports
Ferraz, Claudio - 2007
Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economic development. Yet despite its importance, our understanding of what determines corruption is limited. This paper uses a novel...
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Exposing Corrupt Politicians : The Effects of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes
Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - 2021
This paper examines whether access to information enhances political accountability. Based upon the results of Brazil's recent anti-corruption program that randomly audits municipal expenditures of federally-transferred funds, it estimates the effects of the disclosure of local government...
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Human Capital and Climate Change
Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry A.; … - 2023
-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties a particularly consequential outcome to …, and green voting, with voting gains equivalent to a substantial 35% increase …
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On the Effectiveness of Elected Male and Female Leaders and Team Coordination
Reuben, Ernesto - 2017
We study the effect on coordination in a minimum-effort game of a leader's gender depending on whether the leader is democratically elected or is randomly-selected. Leaders use non-binding messages to try to convince followers to coordinate on the Pareto-efficient equilibrium. We find that teams...
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Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality : Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Firpo, Sergio - 2012
School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact positively students' performance. However, in many circumstances, school accountability systems may face institutional restrictions to establish rewards and sanctions to...
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Opening Heaven's Door : Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act
Facchini, Giovanni; Hatton, Timothy J.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2022
The Immigration Act of 1965 marked a dramatic shift in policy and one with major long term consequences for the volume and composition of immigration to the United States. Here we explore the political economy of a reform that has been overshadowed by the Civil Rights and Great Society programs....
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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it
Berggren, Niclas - 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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Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region
Ubarevičienė, Rūta - 2012
region which may find its expression in the voting behaviour of residents of the region. Using data from the 1997 and 2011 … number of votes for this party increases. At the same time we find increasing voting activity in the suburban ring. The … changing electoral behaviour can be regarded as an indicator of a growing ethnic identity. The voting results also identify the …
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