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On the weights of nations : assigning voting weights in a heterogeneous union
Barberà, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2004
Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …
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Spatial advertisement in political campaigns
Prummer, Anja - 2016
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576206
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Media and social capital
Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021
We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...
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The political legacy of entertainment TV
Durante, Ruben; Pinotti, Paolo; Tesei, Andrea - 2015
the extreme persistence of the effect to the relative incidence of these age groups in the voting population, and explore …
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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?
Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015
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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Political competition and legislative shirking in roll-call votes : evidence from Germany for 1953-2017
Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David - 2020
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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Farsighted stability with heterogeneous expectations
Bloch, Francis; Nouweland, Anne van den - 2017
heterogeneous expectations in one-to-one matching models and voting models, and show that the relaxation of the hypothesis of common …
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Social interactions and female voting in rural Paraguay : the role of urbanization patterns on the effectiveness of GOVT campaigns
Chong, Alberto; León, Gianmarco; Roza, Vivian; … - 2018
We use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaigns to boost female electoral participation in Paraguay. We find that public campaigns had no effect either on the probability of registration, or on voter turnout in the 2013 presidential...
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Paths to stability in two-sided matching with uncertainty
Lazarova, Emiliya A.; Dimitrov, Dinko - 2013
We consider one-to-one matching problems under two modalities of uncertainty that differ in the way types are assigned to agents. Individuals have preferences over the possible types of the agents from the opposite market side and initially know the "name" but not the "type" of the other...
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Applications and interviews : a structural analysis of two-sided simultaneous search
Wolthoff, Ronald - 2011
Much of the job search literature assumes bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when meetings are actually multilateral. I analyze the magnitude of these frictions by presenting an equilibrium job search model with an endogenous number of contacts....
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