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Kwiek, Maksymilian - 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 - 2012

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

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Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition : Evidence from Colonial India

Cassan, Guilhem - 2020

We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the …

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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the Hiv/Aids Epidemic

Mansour, Hani - 2020

This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using …

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Electoral Participation as a Measure of Social Inclusion for Natives, Immigrants and Descendants in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2021

Three decades ago, Sweden extended municipal and county voting privileges to non-citizen residents arguing that it … participation on the part of immigrants is perceived as being substantially lower than for native born citizens and questions have … explore the determinants of voting within the context of social inclusion by comparing immigrants, their descendants and …

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Conditional Cash Transfers, Political Participation, and Voting Behavior

Baez, Javier - 2012

variation in program enrollment across voting booths. We find that FA has a positive effect on political participation in the …

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Against All Odds : Tentative Steps Toward Efficient Information Sharing in Groups

Schlangenotto, Darius - 2020

When groups face difficult problems, the voice of experts may be lost in the noise of others' contributions. We present results from a 'naturally noisy' setting, a large first-year undergraduate class, in which the 'expert's voice is lost' to such a degree that it is in fact optimal for all...

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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees

Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2011

This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...

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Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric contestants' prize valuations, a fair Tullock-type endogenously determined lottery is always superior to...

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Give and You Shall Receive : The Emergence of Welfare-Reducing Reciprocity

Murray, Cameron - 2015

We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...

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