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Government corruption and legislative procedures: is one chamber better than two?

Testa, Cecilia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper studies the impact of the competition between lobbies and voters on policy outcomes under alternative legislative procedures. Lobbies and citizens have opposing interests in a public policy and offer money and votes, respectively, to legislators to obtain their preferred policy....

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Government transfers and political support

Manacorda, Marco; Miguel, Edward; Vigorito, Andrea - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

the probabilistic voting model in political economy. Effects persist after the cash transfer program ends. We estimate …

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Does political knowledge increase turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British general election

Larcinese, Valentino - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

political knowledge has a sizeable influence on the probability of voting and that mass media play an important role in …

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Persuading voters

Alonso, Ricardo; Câmara, Odilon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

In a symmetric information voting model, an individual (information controller) can influence voters’ choices by …-unanimous voting rule, she exploits voters’ heterogeneity by designing a signal with realizations targeting di↵erent winning …-coalitions. Consequently, under simple-majority voting rule, a majority of voters might be strictly worse o↵ due to the controller’s influence …

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Group deliberation and the transformation of judgments: an impossibility result

List, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

While a large social-choice-theoretic literature discusses the aggregation of individual judgments into collective ones, there is relatively little formal work on the transformation of individual judgments in group deliberation. I develop a model of judgment transformation and prove a baseline...

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Bayesian group belief

Dietrich, Franz - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

If a group is modelled as a single Bayesian agent, what should its beliefs be? I propose an axiomatic model that connects group beliefs to beliefs of the group members. The group members may have different information, different prior beliefs and even different domains (algebras) within which...

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The premiss-based approach to judgment aggregation

Dietrich, Franz; Mongin, Philippe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

In the framework of judgment aggregation, we assume that some formulas of the agenda are singled out as premisses, and that both Independence (formula-wise aggregation) and Unanimity Preservation hold for them. Whether premiss-based aggregation thus defined is compatible with conclusion-based...

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Arrow’s theorem in judgment aggregation

Dietrich, Franz; List, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In response to recent work on the aggregation of individual judgments on logically connected propositions into collective judgments, it is often asked whether judgment aggregation is a special case of Arrowian preference aggregation. We argue the op- posite. After proving a general impossibility...

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A reason-based theory of rational choice

Dietrich, Franz; List, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

The paper attached is the revised 23 April 2010 version.

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Introduction to judgment aggregation

List, Christian; Polak, Ben - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This introduces the symposium on judgment aggregation. The theory of judgment aggregation asks how several individuals' judgments on some logically connected propositions can be aggregated into consistent collective judgments. The aim of this introduction is to show how ideas from the familiar...

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