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Protecting Minorities in Binary Elections : A Test of Storable Votes Using Field Data

Casella, Alessandra - 2008

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 <i>Storable Votes</i>:...

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Minorities and Storable Votes

Casella, Alessandra - 2005

The paper studies a simple voting system that has the potential to increase the power of minorities without sacrificing aggregate efficiency. Storable votes grant each voter a stock of votes to spend as desidered over a series of binary decisions. By cumulating votes on issues that it deems most...

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Democracy for Polarized Committees : The Tale of Blotto's Lieutenants

Casella, Alessandra - 2016

In polarized committees, majority voting disenfranchises the minority. Allowing voters to spend freely a fixed budget of votes over multiple issues restores some minority power. However, it also creates a complex strategic scenario: a hide-and-seek game between majority and minority voters that...

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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate

Casella, Alessandra - 2014

We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...

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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets

Casella, Alessandra - 2012

We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. The choice is binary and the number of supporters of either alternative is known. We identify a sufficient condition guaranteeing the existence of...

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Connecting to Power : Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018

Do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? We study Italian firms and their workers to answer this question. Our analysis uses a brand-new dataset, spanning the period from 1993 to 2014, where we merge: (i) firm-level balance sheet data; (ii) social...

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Doing Business in China : Parental Background and Government Intervention Determine Who Owns Businesses

Jia, Ruixue; Lan, Xiaohuan; Padró i Miquel, Gerard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

While intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship is a well-known regularity, we hypothesize that in a …

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Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation : Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2016

Managerial delegation is essential for firm growth. While firms in poor countries often shun outside managers and instead recruit among family members, the pattern is quite the opposite for firms in rich countries. In this paper, we ask whether these differences in managerial delegation have...

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Young, Restless and Creative : Openness to Disruption and Creative Innovations

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

This paper argues that openness to new, unconventional and disruptive ideas has a first-order impact on creative innovations--innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the choice between incremental and radical innovation,...

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Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 2000

The question of how entrepreneurship relates to income mobility is cogent given the current public debate about the … sources of income inequality and mobility in United States society. We examine how experience with entrepreneurship has … distribution over time, and to see how their mobility (or lack thereof) was affected by involvement with entrepreneurship. Our main …

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