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that fellow voters will accept particularistic benefits from poorly performing governments that keep them from voting …
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the extreme persistence of the effect to the relative incidence of these age groups in the voting population, and explore …
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This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...
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We analyze the impact of elected competitors from the same constituency on legislative shirking in the German Bundestag from 1953 to 2017. The German electoral system ensures that there is always at least one federal legislator per constituency with a varying number of elected competitors from...
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This paper characterizes the optimal advertising strategy of candidates in an election campaign, where groups of heterogeneous voters are targeted through media outlets. We discuss its effects on the implemented policy and relate it to the well-documented increase in polarization. Additionally,...
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This paper proposes a rational model of voter participation by generalizing a common-value model of costless voting to … include not just pivotal voting but also marginal voting incentives. A new strategic incentive for abstention arises in that … presents a larger disincentive for voting than the swing voter's curse. Moreover, marginal motivations are shown to dominate …
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We propose a theory-based experimental approach to compare the properties of approval voting (AV) with those of … voting. Finally, subjects' behavior under AV highlights the need to study equilibria in asymmetric strategies. …
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The rational-voter model is often criticized on the grounds that two of its central predictions (the paradox of voting … main theoretical predictions: sincere voting is a predominant strategy under aggregate uncertainty, whereas without …
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In an impure public good model we analyze the effects of CDM transfers on poverty as well as on the global climate protection level. We construct an analytical model of a developing and an industrialized region, both of which independently seek to maximize their utility - a function of private...
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Which kind of reaction can a nation or group of nations expect when leading by example in climate policy? This literature survey describes possible positive reaction mechanisms from different fields of economics, some of which have scarcely been linked to climate economics previously. One effect...
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