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Seniority, Information and Electoral Accountability
Rodet, Cortney Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
using laboratory experiments. A purely rational choice perspective of a simple voting environment implies that information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259528
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Please don’t vote for me: strategic voting in a natural experiment with perverse incentives
Spenkuch, Jörg L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
, this paper documents patterns of strategic voting in a large, real world election. During the 2005 elections to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260101
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Why Do Members of Congress Support Agricultural Protection?
Bellemare, Marc F.; Carnes, Nicholas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
It seems paradoxical that developed countries continue subsidizing agriculture even though their agricultural sectors have been declining in relative importance since the middle of the 20th century. What drives support for agricultural protection in developed countries? We answer this question...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260782
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In Search of Optimum "Relative Unanimity"
Cebula, Richard; Kafoglis, Milton - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1982
This paper formulates a simple mathematical framework for the selection of an optimum "relative unanimity” collective decision rule. The approach is first to identify the benefits of moving from a rule of simple majority towards a rule of full unanimity. Then, the costs of moving from simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260983
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Fact Finding Trips to Italy: An experimental investigation of voter incentives
Rodet, Cortney S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper addresses the interaction of voter information and seniority on electoral accountability. We test whether information leads voters to be less tolerant of moral hazard in a legislative system favoring seniority. A simple game theoretic model is used to predict outcomes in a pork-barrel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295260
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Voter Behavior and Seniority Advantage in Pork Barrel Politics
Rodet, Cortney S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper uses experiments to explore electoral accountability in a legislative system that favors seniority. Voters face a trade-off between pork barrel transfers and policy representation. Term limits are tested as a mechanism to reduce the cost of searching for a legislator who better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295264
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Adaptive voting: an empirical analysis of participation and choice
Martorana, Marco F.; Mazza, Isidoro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Dynamic models of learning and adaptation have provided realistic predictions in terms of voting behavior. This study … aims at contributing to their empirical verification by investigating voting behavior in terms of participation as well as … impact depends on the consistency between their last voting behavior and personal economic improvements (or worsening) from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647342
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Russian Election Reform and the Effect of Social Conformity on Voting and the Party System: 2007 and 2008
Coleman, Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
conformity exerted a strong, persistent, and predictable influence on voting in national elections from 1991 to 2003. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787119
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What It Takes to Be a Leader: Leadership and Charisma in a Citizen-Candidate Model
Berdugo, Binyamin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper analyses leadership and charisma within the framework of social choice. In societies that lack formal institutional authorities, the power of leaders to coerce is limited. Under such conditions, we find that social outcomes will depend not only on policy preferences but also on how a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789794
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Voided Ballot in the 1996 Presidential Election: A County-Level Analysis
Knack, Stephen; Kropf, Martha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
voting equipment that can be programmed to eliminate overvoting. The rate of voided ballots is lower in larger counties, and … generate the lowest rates of voided ballots among types of voting equipment, with punch card systems generating the highest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565122