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Educational accountability is a timely topic in Hungary, because the law of LXXI/2006 has practically introduced educational accountability. School report cards have been published for the third time in 2011 for each school with a 6th, 8th or 10th grade. These report cards publicize information...
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Educational accountability is a timely topic in Hungary, because the law of LXXI/2006 has practically introduced educational accountability. School report cards have been published for the third time in 2011 for each school with a 6th, 8th or 10th grade. These report cards publicize information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907227
We study the problem of a society choosing a subset of new members from a finite set of candidates (as in Barber?Sonnenschein, and Zhou, 1991). However, we explicitly consider the possibility that initial members of the society (founders) may want to leave it if they do not like the resulting...
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characterize the families of strategy-proof voting procedures when not all possible subsets of objects are feasible, and voters …
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uncertainty about the location of the median voter. We test these three predictions using laboratory experiments, and find strong …
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The traditional voting games are special transferable utility cooperative games, so-called simple games, where the … or not. In this paper we introduce general weighted voting games, where the value of a coalition is a random variable. We …
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One of the aims of the new electoral law of Hungary has been to define a fairer apportionment into voting districts … Matters of the Venice Commission. These rules fix the average size of the voting districts, require voting districts not to … term: increase the number of voting districts to about 130, allow the number of voting districts to change flexibly at each …
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The traditional voting games are special transferable utility cooperative games, so-called simple games, where the … or not. In this paper we introduce general weighted voting games, where the value of a coalition is a random variable. We … illustrate the use of this model on examples from Hungary. -- weighted voting ; Hungarian National Assembly ; absent voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008668694
One of the aims of the new electoral law of Hungary has been to define a fairer apportionment into voting districts … Matters of the Venice Commission. These rules fix the average size of the voting districts, require voting districts not to … term: increase the number of voting districts to about 130, allow the number of voting districts to change flexibly at each …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009628411
We examine the incentives of an interest group to provide a political decision-maker with policy-relevant information and to exert pressure on her. Both activities are costly but may induce the lobby's preferred policy. Our paper provides an integrated analysis of both lobbying activities and...
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