analysis is the recognition that districts must have the same population size but only voters matter for electoral incentives …

One frequently overlooked aspect of the U.S.-style electoral college system is that it discourages election fraud. In a … presidential election based on the popular vote, competing political parties are motivated to manipulate votes in areas where they … electoral college system provides more effective protection against election fraud compared to the popular vote system. While …

with Duverger's predictions, coordination forces are strong in majority runoff elections. We indeed observe similar levels … of coordination under both rules, even when sincere voting is an equilibrium only under majority runoff. Our results …

multiple decisions. During the 2006 student elections at Columbia University, we tested a simple version of this idea: voters … 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>: granting each voter a budget of votes to cast as desired over …

the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates … from focusing on securing the preferences of active voters …

the uninformed median voter which candidate to choose. The median voter knows whether or not the endorsed candidate is … which the median voter follows the elite's advice. A higher cost of redistribution minimizes the elite's information …

how these mappings affect voters' participation to an election. We show that the effect of such institutional differences … on turnout depends on the distribution of voters' preferences for the competing parties. In particular, we uncover a … in the ex-ante closeness of the election and peaks when the population is evenly split between the two parties. These …

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 …

Since 2000, ten states have enacted strict voter identification laws, which require that voters show identification in … order for their votes to count. While proponents argue these laws prevent voter fraud and protect the integrity of elections … can affect voter turnout and election outcomes. We do so using historical data on more than 2,000 races in Florida and …

United States. The Know-Nothing Party gained control of a number of state governments in the 1854-1856 elections running on a … of Irish Famine immigration and was at the forefront of industrialization in the United States. Voters in towns with more … state elections. These two forces played a decisive role in 1855, but not the other years of the Know Nothings' success. We …