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Friends in High Places
Cohen, Lauren - 2010
We demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians have a significant impact on the voting behavior of U … consistent predictors of voting behavior. For the former, we estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of … networks on voting. We find that the effect of alumni networks is close to 60% of the size of the effect of state …
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The Role of Advisory Services in Proxy Voting
Alexander, Cindy R. - 2009
This paper studies the information content and consequences of third-party voting advice issued during proxy contests …. We find that voting advice is a good predictor of contest outcomes and that vote recommendations appear to certify the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158027
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Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections : A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data
Casella, Alessandra - 2010
Democratic systems are built, with good reason, on majoritarian principles, but their legitimacy requires the protection of strongly held minority preferences. The challenge is to do so while treating every voter equally and preserving aggregate welfare. One possible solution is lt;igt;Storable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759195
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Guns and Votes
Bouton, Laurent - 2014
Why are U.S. congressmen reluctant to support gun control regulations, despite the fact that most Americans are in favor of them? We argue that re-election motives can lead politicians to take a pro-gun stance against the interests of an apathetic majority of the electorate, but in line with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051757
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How Do Voters Matter? Evidence from Us Congressional Redistricting
Jones, Daniel - 2016
impacts the district representative's roll call voting. We find that an increase in Democrat share within a district causes … more leftist roll call voting. This occurs because a Democrat is more likely to hold the seat, but also because – in … contrast to existing empirical work – partisan composition has a direct effect on the roll call voting of individual …
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Resolving Intertemporal Conflicts : Economics vs Politics
Millner, Antony - 2014
Intertemporal conflicts occur when a group of agents with heterogeneous time preferences must make a collective decision about how to manage a common asset. How should this be done? We examine two methods: an 'Economics' approach that seeks to implement efficient allocations, and a 'Politics'...
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The Generalized War of Attrition
Bulow, Jeremy; Klemperer, Paul - 2021
We generalize the War of Attrition model to allow for N + K firms competing for N prizes. Two special cases are of particular interest. First, if firms continue to pay their full costs after dropping out (as in a standard-setting context), each firm's exit time is independent both of K and of...
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Congressional Vote Options
King, David C.; Zeckhauser, Richard J. - 2022
Among political practitioners, there is conventional wisdom about the outcomes of critical and salient legislative votes. 'This vote,' we hear, ' will either win by a little or lose by a lot.' Real-world examples suggest coalition leaders purchase 'hip-pocket' votes and "if you need me" pledges,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175679
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Voting on the Budget Deficit
Tabellini, Guido; Alesina, Alberto F. - 2022
This paper analyzes a model in which different rational individuals vote over the composition and time profile of public spending. Potential disagreement between current and future majorities generates instability in the social choice function that aggregates individual preferences. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013308356
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Kosher Pork
Drazen, Allan - 2011
Both conventional wisdom and leading academic research view pork barrel spending as antithetical to responsible policymaking in times of crisis. In this paper we present an alternative view. When agents are heterogeneous in their ideology and in their information about the economic situation,...
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