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that are in opposition to their policy preferences. This results in the election of representatives who do not correspond … exactly to the voters' own views. An alternative voting procedure to avoid this type of election failure is proposed in … Wahl-O-Mat, which asks the user a number of questions on topical policy issues; the computer program, drawing on all the …
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Electoral clientelism and vote buying are widely perceived as major obstacles to economic development. This is because they may limit the provision of public goods. In this paper, we review the literature on clientelism and vote buying and propose the use of field experiments to evaluate...
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democratic experience and strong party ties. Utilizing the 1990 German Unification Election Study, I examine a natural experiment …
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This essay describes a series of pilot studies designed to shed light on the question of whether the festive, social environment surrounding old-fashioned elections be recreated in ways that increase voter turnout. During 2005 and 2006, we conducted randomized experiments in 14 geographic areas....
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universal German party. A comparison of the election results with the position of German Trade Union Federation (DGB) reveals …
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