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The puzzling practice of paying "cash for votes"
Murugesan, Anand; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2023
The expression "cash-for-votes" describes a form of vote buying in which candidates for office pay individuals in exchange for their votes. That practice undermines the functioning of democracy but is pervasive in many parts of the world, especially in the Global South. We discuss estimates of...
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Serving the public interest
Markussen, Thomas; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2010
candidates by observing their pre-election behavior. Egoistic types may strategically imitate benevolent types in the pre-election … the public sector is effective. We analyze the role of institutions like investigative media and re-election and show that …
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Corruption in committees : an experimental study of information aggregation through voting
Morten, Rebecca B.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Journal of public economic theory 17 (2015) 4, pp. 553-579
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Disincentives from redistribution : evidence on a dividend of democracy
Sausgruber, Rupert; Sonntag, Axel; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2019
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Experimental evidence on expressive voting
Tyran, Jean-Robert; Wagner, Alexander K. - 2016
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Voter motivation and the quality of democratic choice
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2016
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Voter motivation and the quality of democratic choice
Mechtenberg, Lydia; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2016
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Discriminatory taxes are unpopular : even when they are efficient and distributionally fair
Sausgruber, Rupert; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 108 (2014), pp. 463-476
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The dark side of the vote : biased voters, social information, and information aggregation through majority voting
Morton, Rebecca B.; Piovesan, Marco; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Games and economic behavior 113 (2019), pp. 461-481
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Disincentives from redistribution : evidence on a dividend of democracy
Sausgruber, Rupert; Sonntag, Axel; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2019
We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is imposed vs. democratically chosen in a vote. We find a “dividend of democracy” in the sense that the disincentive effect is substantially smaller when redistribution is...
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