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Selling favors in the lab: experiments on campaign finance reform
Houser, Daniel; Stratmann, Thomas - In: Public Choice 136 (2008) 1, pp. 215-239
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Securing the base: electoral competition under variable turnout
Peress, Michael - In: Public Choice 148 (2011) 1, pp. 87-104
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Bailout for sale? The vote to save Wall Street
Dorsch, Michael - In: Public Choice 155 (2013) 3, pp. 211-228
, special interests. An empirical analysis examines legislative voting on the initial bailout proposal, using campaign … legislative voting on the banking bailout. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2013 …
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A preferential attachment model of campaign contributions in state legislative elections
Vonnahme, Greg - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 1, pp. 235-249
In state legislative elections some candidates attract contributions from many donors whereas other candidates have much smaller donor pools. Why? What are the origins of these disparities? This paper conceptualizes contributions as a type of attachment between the donor and the state...
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The price of transparency: do campaign finance disclosure laws discourage political participation by citizens’ groups?
Gagnon, Alexandre Couture; Palda, Filip - In: Public Choice 146 (2011) 3, pp. 353-374
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Honey, I shrunk the kids’ benefits—revisiting intergenerational conflict in OECD countries
Krieger, Tim; Ruhose, Jens - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 1, pp. 115-143
have less income compared to their work income. This effect is transitory, however, implying a change in voting behavior …
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Taking dictatorship seriously: a reply to Quesada
Fried, Greg - In: Public Choice 158 (2014) 1, pp. 243-251
insight common to the standard characterisations of voting power: the idea that one has power over an outcome to the extent …
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Albert Heckscher on collective decision-making
Lagerspetz, Eerik - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 3, pp. 327-339
), accepted in 1892 at the University of Copenhagen, Heckscher dealt with numerous issues related to voting, especially those …-cycles, differences between Condorcet-effective rules and the Borda rule, strategic voting, the influence of the voting order under the … parliamentary voting rules, the likelihood of single-peaked preference profiles, and the problems created by non …
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Political interaction in the senate: estimating a political “spatial” weights matrix and an application to lobbying behavior
Chupp, B. - In: Public Choice 160 (2014) 3, pp. 521-538
Many motivations exist that cause legislators to behave strategically when voting. These include logrolling, towing the … effects simulation, I calculate the overall effect on voting from “flipping” a senator’s vote, allowing flipped votes to have …
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On the empirical relevance of Condorcet’s paradox
Deemen, Adrian - In: Public Choice 158 (2014) 3, pp. 311-330
Condorcet’s paradox occurs when there is no alternative that beats every other alternative by majority. The paradox may pose real problems to democratic decision making such as decision deadlocks and democratic paralysis. However, its relevance has been discussed again and again since the...
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