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What explains significant variation across countries in the use of vote buying instead of campaign promises to secure voter support? This paper explicitly models the tradeoff parties face between engaging in vote buying and making campaign promises, and explores the distributional consequences...
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Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...
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We study a game theoretic model of a parliamentary democracy under proportional representation where `citizen candidates' form parties, voting occurs and governments are formed. We study the coalition governments that emerge as functions of the parties' seat shares, the size of the rents from...
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with two candidates. These candidates are interested in power and ideology, but their weights on these two motives are not …., ideology) and the uncertainty about voters' preferences. The theoretical predictions are supported by the data collected from a …
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The survey is concerned with the issue of information transmission from experts to non-experts. Two main approaches to … the use of experts can be traced. According to the game-theoretic approach expertise is a case of asymmetric information … the expert’s performance. According to the Bayesian decision-theoretic approach the expert is the agent who announces his …
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