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Electoral College and Election Fraud
Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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 …
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How Do Electoral Rules Shape Party Structures, Government Coalitions, and Economic Policies?
Persson, Torsten - 2003
We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy, where party structures, government coalitions and fiscal policies are endogenously determined. The model predicts that, relative to proportional elections, majoritarian elections reduce government spending because they reduce party...
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Turnout Across Democracies
Herrera, Helios - 2014
how these mappings affect voters' participation to an election. We show that the effect of such institutional differences … in the ex-ante closeness of the election and peaks when the population is evenly split between the two parties. These …
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Optimal Primaries
Hummel, Patrick - 2013
We analyze a model of US presidential primary elections for a given party. There are two candidates, one of whom is a higher quality candidate. Voters reside in m different states and receive noisy private information about the identity of the superior candidate. States vote in some order, and...
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Pack-Crack-Pack : Gerrymandering with Differential Turnout
Bouton, Laurent; Génicot, Garance; Castanheira, Micael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the manipulation of electoral maps by political parties, known as gerrymandering. At the core of our analysis is the recognition that districts must have the same population size but only voters matter for electoral incentives. Using a novel model of gerrymandering that allows...
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Runoff Elections in the Laboratory
Bouton, Laurent - 2019
We study experimentally the properties of the majority runoff system and compare them to the ones of plurality rule, in the setup of a divided majority. Our focus is on Duverger's famous predictions that the plurality rule leads to a higher coordination of votes on a limited number of candidates...
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How Likely Is It that Courts Will Select the US President? The Probability of Narrow, Reversible Election Results in the Electoral College versus a National Popular Vote
Geruso, Michael - 2020
Extremely narrow election outcomes--such as could be reversed by rejecting a few thousand ballots--are likely to … College system. Starting from probabilistic simulations of likely presidential election outcomes that are similar to the … output from election forecasting models, we calculate the likelihood of disputable, narrow outcomes under the Electoral …
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Elected Versus Appointed Policymakers : Evidence from City Treasurers
Whalley, Alexander - 2010
This paper investigates whether methods of public official selection affect policymaking in cities. I draw on the unique characteristics of California's city referendum process to identify the causal effect of city treasurers' method of selection on their cities' debt management policies. I...
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Party Influence in Congress and the Economy
Snowberg, Erik - 2006
market responses in recent midterm elections to Presidential elections. We use prediction markets tracking election outcomes …
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Logrolling in Congress
Battaglini, Marco; Sciabolazza, Valerio Leone; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study vote trading among U.S. Congress members. By tracking roll-call votes within bills across five legislatures and politicians' personal connections made during the school years, we document a propensity of connected legislators to vote together that depends on how salient the bill is to...
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