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The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
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values. The SSPI can serve as a control for power imbedded in voting blocs, permitting fuller analysis of other factors that …
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between two potential policy outcomes of an election participate in large-scale elections when voting is costly? Using a … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent … simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …
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Using data from an experiment by Forsythe, Myerson, Rietz, and Weber (1993), designed for a different purpose, we test the "standard theory" that players have preferences only over their own mentary payoffs and that play will be in (evolutionary stable) equilibrium. In the experiment each...
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, potential candidates compete in a contest to become their party's nominee. At the election stage, the nominated candidates …
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ballots have been taken from the StuPa-OMat - the KIT adaptation of the Wahl-O-Mat to the StuPa elections. However, the … questions proposed by the election committee can be favorable for one party and unfavorable for another, making elections … questions. Due to these advances, the Third Vote can be considered an election-ready prototype of a voting method either for use …
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