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Local candidates and distributive politics under closed-list proportional representation

Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018

Geographic representation is an important consideration in candidate nominations, even under closed-list proportional … representation (PR), and may even matter for distributive policy outcomes. However, since nominations are determined strategically …, the causal effects of local representation are difficult to identify. We investigate the relationship between local …

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Endogenous majority rules with changing preferences

Polborn, Mattias K. - 2000

This paper provides a new explanation why several US states have implemented supermajority requirements for tax increases. We model a dynamic and stochastic OLG economy where individual preferences depend on age and change over time in a systematic way. In this setting, we show that the first...

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Immigration and Majority Voting on Income Redistriubtion - Is there a Case for Opposition from Natives?

Mayr, Karin - 2003

This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income tax. As a main result, we derive multiple tax equilibria if immigrants are allowed to vote and the skill composition of natives is not too homogeneous. In this case, the outcome...

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Why Legislators are Protectionists: The Role of Majoritarian Voting in Setting Tariffs

Willmann, Gerald - 2003

Based on the observation that industries are often geographically concentrated, this paper proposes a new political economy model of trade protection. We associate the sectors of a specific factors model with electoral districts populated by continua of heterogeneous voters who differ in their...

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On the Weights of Nations: Assigning Voting Weights in a Heterogeneous Union

Barbera, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2004

Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who then participate in later votes at the union level on their behalf. The countries, provinces, and states may vary in their populations and composition. If we wish to maximize the...

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Efficiency of fairness in voting systems

Turnovec, František - 2009

Fair representation of voters in a committee representing different voters' groups is being broadly discussed during … last few years. Assuming we know what the fair representation is, there exists a problem of optimal quota: given a fair …

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Delegation or Voting

Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2002

Collective decision procedures should balance the incentives they provide toacquire information and their capacity to aggregate private information. In a decisionproblem in which a project can be accepted or rejected once information about its qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the...

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On the Size of the Winning Set in the Presence of Interest Groups

Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; van Winden, Frans - 2005

Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that the presence of these interest groups increases the winning set, which is the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the incumbent. Therefore interest...

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Information and Strategic Voting

Tyszler, Marcelo; Schram, Arthur - 2011

We theoretically and experimentally study voter behavior in a setting characterized by plurality rule and mandatory voting, where voters choose from three options. We are interested in the occurrence of strategic voting in an environment where Condorcet cycles may occur. In particular, we focus...

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Democratic provision of divisible public goods

Gersbach, Hans - 2010

In this paper we examine the potential of democratic constitutions for the provision of divisible public goods in a large economy. Our main insights are as follows: When aggregate shocks are absent, the combination of the following rules yields first-best allocations: a supermajority rule, equal...

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