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Political motivations and electoral competition : equilibrium analysis and experimental evidence
Drouvelis, Michalis; Saporiti, Alejandro; Vriend, … - 2013
levels in all treatments, and the comparative statics effects across treatments are as predicted by the theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010198494
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Information on the ballot, voter satisfaction and election turnout
Sajons, Christoph - 2016
If voters do not perceive meaningful differences between parties and candidates, they tend to stay at home or choose by other factors like style or likability. This study examines whether including different kinds of information about the candidates on the ballot affects the satisfaction and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483220
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Electoral competition and endogenous political institutions : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2015
Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, nonmainstream parties if the latters ́electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505165
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Political motivations and electoral competition : equilibrium analysis and experimental evidence
Drouvelis, Michalis; Saporiti, Alejandro; Vriend, … - 2011
individual levels in all treatments, and the comparative statics effects across treatments are as predicted by the theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009271606
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The Optimal Ballot Structure for Double-Member Districts
Gregor, Martin - 2013
The Anglo-American double-member districts employing plurality-at-large are frequently criticized for giving a large majority premium to a winning party. In this paper, we demonstrate that the premium stems from a limited degree of voters' discrimination associated with only two positive votes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073694
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Political Motivations and Electoral Competition : Equilibrium Analysis and Experimental Evidence
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2018
levels in all treatments, and the comparative statics effects across treatments are as predicted by the theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012933425
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A dynamic theory of electoral competition
Battaglini, Marco - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 9 (2014) 2, pp. 515-554
We present a dynamic theory of electoral competition to study the determinants of fiscal policy. In each period, two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011674446
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Electoral Competition under Best-Worst Voting Rules
Cahan, Dodge - 2016
We characterise multi-candidate pure-strategy equilibria in the Hotelling-Downs spatial election model for the class of best-worst voting rules, in which each voter is endowed with both a positive and a negative vote, i.e., each voter can vote in favour of one candidate and against another one....
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Laboratory Elections with Endogenous Turnout : Proportional Representation versus Majoritarian Rule
Kartal, Melis - 2014
representation using theory and experiments. Numerous empirical studies have compared turnout across PR and MR. However, the … the size of the minority, but the empirical papers on the topic do not control for it. I also show that, in both theory … theory predicts. I conjecture that, under PR, there is a discouragement effect for the small minority because the PR system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014148573
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Districting for a Low-Information Electorate
Elmendorf, Christopher S.; Schleicher, David - 2012
Most commentary on redistricting is concerned with fairness to groups, be they racial, political, or geographic. This Essay highlights another facet of the redistricting problem: how the configuration of districts affects the ability of low-information voters to secure responsive, accountable...
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