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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
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Participatory accountability and collective action : experimental evidence from Albania
Barr, Abigail; Packard, Truman; Serra, Danila - 2013
It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put institutions in place that allow citizens to hold public servants to account, but citizens must participate in those institutions if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a...
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Truth in Consequentiality : Theory and Field Evidence on Discrete Choice Experiments
Vossler, Christian; Doyon, Maurice; Rondeau, Daniel; … - 2010
This paper explores methodological issues surrounding the use of discrete choice experiments to elicit values for public goods. We develop an explicit game-theoretic model of individual decisions to a series of choice sets, providing general conditions under which surveys with repeated binary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014189156
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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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Does the winner take it all? : redistributive policies and political extremism
Daniele, Gianmarco; Piolatto, Amedeo; Sassen, Wim - 2020
lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation … Parliament elections from 1990 onwards, and find that strategic voting is indeed U-shaped: winning and losing member states vote …
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Fairness and squareness: fair decision making rules in the EU council?
Turnovec, František (contributor) - 2009
representations in union of states, is discussed. This concept, introduced into discussion about voting rights in the Council of … European Union in 2004, was narrowed to proposal of distribution of voting weights among the member states proportionally to … square roots of population. Such a distribution should guarantee the same indirect voting power to each EU citizen, measured …
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A case for standard theory?
Kuzmics, Christoph; Rodenburger, Daniel - 2015
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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An experimental study of voting with costly delay
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336977
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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes : an experiment
Puttermann, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010
interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …
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Delegation or voting
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2001
qualityhas been acquired or not, we compare the performance of a delegation structure with that oftwo voting procedures …. Delegation makes one's acceptance decision pivotal by definition.The decisiveness of one's vote in a voting procedure depends on …
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