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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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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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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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Political competition when media create candidates' charisma
Andina-Díaz, Ascensión - 2004
ideology and valence, and media create candidates' charisma. The results we obtain show that candidates realize the power of … location of candidates may differ. Thus, when voters choose among the outlets, candidates may differentiate their platforms. On … the other hand, when voters are exposed to all the outlets in the economy, candidates tend more to moderate their ideology …
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An implementation approach to rotation programs
Korpela, Ville; Lombardi, Michele; Saulle, Riccardo D. - 2021
Rotation programs are widely used in societies. Some examples are job rotations, rotation schemes in the management of common-pool resources, and rotation procedures in fair division problems. We study rotation programs via the implementation of Pareto efficient social choice rules under...
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An adaptation-mitigation game: does adaptation promote participation in international environmental agreements?
Borrero, Miguel; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2021
This paper studies how the investment in adaptation can influence the participation in an international environmental agreement (IEA) when countries decide in adaptation before they choose their levels of emissions. Two types of agreements are studied, a complete agreement for which countries...
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Group decision-making in the shadow of disagreement
Eliaz, Kfir; Ray, Debraj; Razin, Ronny - 2004
A model of group decision-making is studied, in which one of two alternatives must be chosen. While group members differ in their valuations of the alternatives, everybody prefers some alternative to disagreement. Our model is distinguished by three features: private information regarding...
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Mechanisms with referrals: VCG mechanisms and multilevel mechanisms
Lee, Joosung - 2017
We study mechanisms for environments in which only some of the agents are directly connected to a mechanism designer and the other agents can participate in a mechanism only through the connected agents' referrals. In such environments, the mechanism designer and agents may have different...
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Eliciting information from a committee
Zapechelnyuk, Andriy - 2012
The paper addresses the mechanism design problem of eliciting truthful information from a committee of informed experts who collude in their information disclosure strategies. It is shown that under fairly general conditions full information disclosure is possible if and only if the induced...
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All-pay auctions with weakly risk-averse buyers
Fibich, Gadi; Gavious, Arieh; Sela, Aner - 2004
We use perturbation analysis to study independent private-value all-pay auctions with weakly risk-averse buyers. We show that under weak risk aversion: 1) Buyers with low values bid lower and buyers with high values bid higher than they would bid in the risk neutral case. 2) Buyers with low...
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