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Polarization and Inefficient Policies
: Christian Schultz - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet
Two parties have different goals. Voters, but not parties, are uncertain about the functioning of the economy, in this case the costs of producing a public good. The parties each propose a policy, an election is held and the policy of the winning party is implemented. Voters and parties care...
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Economic interests and the origins of electoral systems
Cusack, Thomas R.; Iversen, Torben; Soskice, David - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 2007
Die gängige Begründung – basierend auf der bahnbrechenden Arbeit Rokkans – dafür, dass ein spezifisches Wahlsystem bevorzugt wird, ist, dass die Verhältniswahl („proportional respresentation“ oder „PR“) von einer zersplitterten Rechte eingeführt wurde, um ihre Klasseninteressen...
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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making
Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government’s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...
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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government’s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566744
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Optimal Voting Rules
Gershkov, Alex; Moldovanu, Benny; Shi, Xianwen - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013
We study dominant strategy incentive compatible (DIC) and deterministic mechanisms in a social choice setting with several alternatives. The agents are privately informed about their preferences, and have single-crossing utility functions. Monetary transfers are not feasible. We use an...
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Government Spending and Re-election: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Litschig, Stephan; Morrison, Kevin - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012
Does additional government spending improve the electoral chances of incumbent political parties? This paper provides the first quasi-experimental evidence on this question. Our research design exploits discontinuities in federal funding to local governments in Brazil around several population...
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Voting by monetary policy committees: evidence from the CEE inflation-targeting countries
Jung, Alexander; Kiss, Gergely - Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB) - 2012
) countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 2005–2010. It employs (individual) voting records of the …-time information on economic and financial indicators and voting records. Recent evidence for the monetary policy committees (MPCs) of …
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Preferences for government enforcement of a common pool harvest quota: Theory and experimental evidence from fishing communities in Colombia
Velez, Maria Alejandra; Stranlund, John K.; Murphy, James J. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Public … - 2012
enforcement by voting on two levels of enforcement of a harvest quota, with and without communication. The two enforcement … enforcement strategy did not lead to more efficient harvests, nor did allowing subjects to communicate before voting. …
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Ethnic Heterogeneity, Voting Partecipation and Local Economic Growth. The Case of Belgium
Innocenti, Alessandro; Lorini, Francesca; Rapallini, Chiara - Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa, … - 2014
The paper analyzes the case of Belgium to provide insight into the relationships among ethnic heterogeneity, voting … participation and local economic growth. We find that heterogeneity, and external and internal mobility reduce immigrants’ voting … participation, while we do not find support for the hypothesis that voting participation is related to local economic growth, with …
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Public Goods, Voting, and Growth
Borissov, Kirill; Lambrecht, Stéphane; Hanna, Joseph - Department of Economics, European University at St. … - 2014
vote on the shares of public goods in GDP. We propose a definition of voting equilibrium, prove the existence and provide a … characterization of voting equilibria, and obtain a closed-form solution for the voting outcomes. …
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