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Moderating Political Extremism : Single Round vs Runoff Elections Under Plurality Rule
Bordignon, Massimo - 2013
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy and hence policy volatility are smaller, because the...
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Voting as a War of Attrition
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915720
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When is Voting Optimal?
Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2014
the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an … voting mechanisms. The paper derives the conditions under which the optimal decision rule is equivalent to some well …-known voting procedure (weighted supermajority, weighted majority, and simple majority) and shows that these are very stringent …
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Electoral Democracy at Work
Askenazy, Philippe - 2020
We show that an institutional change designed expressly to heighten competition for the provision of union services can have a substantial effect on unionization and employment relations. We study a French reform of 2008 that introduced mandatory elections for representation of workers at firm,...
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Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Chamon, Marcos - 2010
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with a plurality of the vote. In municipalities with more than 200,000 voters a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149609
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Exposing Corruption : Can Electoral Competition Discipline Politicians?
Afridi, Farzana - 2016
In developing countries with weak institutions, there is implicitly a large reliance on elections to instill norms of accountability and reduce corruption. In this paper we show that electoral discipline may be ineffective in reducing corruption when political competition is too high or too low....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978149
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A Theory of Political Entrenchment
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012
with probabilistic voting. A partially self-interested left-wing party may implement (entrenchment) policies reducing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107694
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Time to Vote?
Gibson, John - 2011
Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure …. Using this new measure of the opportunity cost of voting to predict turnout at the individual level, we find that small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122114
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Voting in Hiring Committees : Which 'Almost' Rule is Optimal?
Baharad, Eyal - 2018
We determine the scoring rule that is most likely to select a high-ability candidate. A major result is that neither the widely used plurality rule nor the inverse-plurality rule are ever optimal, and that the Borda rule is hardly ever optimal. Furthermore, we show that only the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929073
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Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds
Finan, Frederico - 2016
voting and implementing term limits. We find that an approval voting system reduces the distortions by 7.5 percent. Term …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001344