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-vote-selling intervention in the Philippines. We model selling one's vote as a temptation good: it creates positive utility for the future self … at the moment of voting, but not for past selves who anticipate the vote-sale. We also allow keeping or breaking promises … regarding vote-selling to affect utility. Voters who are at least partially sophisticated about their vote-selling temptation …
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effects, invisible college coalition voting and inner sanctum bias. The rule considered here is designed to assist the …
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This paper seeks to determine how region, demographics, and economic characteristics affected county-level voting … patterns in the 2000 U.S. presidential election. The a priori expectation was that the geographic voting patterns that emerged … the voting patterns, the regional location of a county was also an important determinant. This suggests that unobserved …
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principle shows that the current Electoral College system may offer significant advantages over a direct voting system. Calls …
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We implement a new approach for estimating the persuasive effects of political advertising. Our empirical strategy exploits FCC regulations that result in plausibly exogenous variation in the number of impressions across the borders of neighboring counties. Applying this approach to uniquely...
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We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency … affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While …-consuming screening of online videos. In 2014, halfway through the legislative period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. Since …
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