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A condorcet jury theorem for large poisson elections with multiple alternatives
Goertz, Johanna M. M. - In: Games 11 (2020) 1/2, pp. 1-12
that the CJT holds for large elections with two alternatives, but there is also an example of a large election with three …
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Reelection threshold contracts in politics
Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - 2001
When politicians are provided with insufficient incentives by the democratic election mechanism, we show that social …
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Does the winner take it all? : redistributive policies and political extremism
Daniele, Gianmarco; Piolatto, Amedeo; Sassen, Wim - 2020
We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
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Contagion of populist extremism
Kishishita, Daiki; Yamagishi, Atsushi - 2020
To explore the propagation of undesirable policies in a form of populist extremism, we construct a social learning model featuring agency problems. Politicians in different countries sequentially implement a policy. Voters learn the incumbent politician's type and the desirable policy by...
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Political economics of higher education finance
Borck, Rainald; Wimbersky, Martin - 2009
We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income. We compare four different systems and analyse voters' choices among them: a traditional subsidy scheme, a pure loan scheme, income contingent loans and graduate taxes. Using...
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How much of federalism in the European Union
Turnovec, František - 2009
The European Union (EU) is not de jure a federation, but after 50 years of institutional evolution it possesses attributes of a federal state. One can conclude that EU is something betweenʺ federation and intergovernmental organization. If we measure something betweenʺ by interval [0, 1],...
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Contractual federalism and strategy-proof coordination
Loeper, Antoine - 2008
This paper takes a mechanism design approach to federalism and assumes that local preferences are the private … information of local jurisdictions. Contractual federalism is defined as a strategy-proof contract among the members of the … coalition manipulations are equivalent to voting rules on uniform policies. -- Federalism ; Asymmetric Information ; Strategy …
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Elections, contracts and markets
Gersbach, Hans; Müller, Markus - 2006 - This version: May 2006
As the performance of long-term projects is not observable in the short run politicians may pander to public opinion. To solve this problem, we propose a triple mechanism involving political information markets, reelection threshold contracts, and democratic elections. An information market is...
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A case for standard theory?
Kuzmics, Christoph; Rodenburger, Daniel - 2015
the "standard theory" that players have preferences only over their own mentary payoffs and that play will be in … with a simple game, this theory cannot be rejected at the 5% level of significance for another treatment with a more …
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Political motivations and electoral competition : equilibrium analysis and experimental evidence
Drouvelis, Michalis; Saporiti, Alejandro; Vriend, … - 2013
We study both theoretically and experimentally the set of Nash equilibria of a classical one-dimensional election game … levels in all treatments, and the comparative statics effects across treatments are as predicted by the theory. …
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