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Bounds on Malapportionment
Kóczy, László Á.; Sziklai, Balázs - 2018
proportional number of seats (the Hare-quota). We study the malapportionment of constituencies and provide a simple bound as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290248
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Bounds on Malapportionment
Kóczy, László Á.; Sziklai, Balázs - 2018
proportional number of seats (the Hare-quota). We study the malapportionment of constituencies and provide a simple bound as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010107
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Do Small States Get More Federal Monies?Myth and Reality About the US SenateMalapportionment
Larcinese, Valentino; Rizzo, Leonzio; Testa, Cecilia - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2009
We analyze the relationship between senate malapportionment and the allocation ofthe US federal budget to the states … identification problems and grosslyoverestimate the impact of malapportionment. Most of the estimated impact is not ascale but a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998925
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Divide and Conquer: Noisy Communication in Networks, Power, and Wealth Distribution
Perez, Wilson - 2004
In a society composed of a ruler and its citizens: what are the determinants of the political equilibrium between these two? This paper approaches this problem as a game played between a ruler who has to decide the distribution of the aggregate income and a group of agents/citizens who have the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324912
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Party Formation and Coalitional Bargaining in a Model of Proportional Representation
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Oak, Mandar - 2004
be minimal winning, minority or surplus. Moreover, coalitions may be `disconnected'. We then look at how the coalition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324966
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Voting Power and Survival: The Case of a Ruling Party
Jelnov, Artyom; Jelnov, Pavel - 2019
In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in the parliament. We develop a general probabilistic model of political crises and test it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059084
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Does the Winner Take It All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism
Daniele, Gianmarco; Piolatto, Amedeo; Sas, Willem - 2020
We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207979
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Coalition Governments in a Model of Parliamentary Democracy
Bandyopadhyay, Siddhartha; Oak, Mandar - 2006
We analyze the relative importance of party ideology and rents from office in the formation of coalitions in a … parliamentary democracy. In equilibrium, the types of coalitions that are formed may be minimal winning, minority or surplus and … they may be ideologically `disconnected'. The coalitions that form depend upon the relative importance of rents of office …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312508
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Focused power: Experiments, the Shapley-Shubik power index, and focal points
Geller, Chris R.; Mustard, Jamie; Shahwan, Ranya - 2013
Experiments evaluate the fit of human behaviour to the Shapley-Shubik power index (SSPI), a formula of voter power. Groups of six subjects with differing votes divide a fixed purse by majority rule in online chat rooms. Earnings proxy for measured power. Chat rooms and processes for selecting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320421
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The Advantage of Incumbents in Coalitional Bargaining
Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne - 2021
The composition of governing coalitions does not always reflect the relative sizes of the coalition members, but … governing coalitions in Finnish local governments. Using an instrumental variable strategy that hinges on within-party close …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503090