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Committees and Special Interests
Felgenhauer, Mike; Gruner, H. P. - 2021
committees benefits from voting insincerely accrue not only when a decision maker's vote is pivotal. As the number of voters … increases, the cost of voting insincerely declines in an open committee because the probability of being pivotal declines. This … is not the case in a closed committee where costs and benefits of insincere voting only arise when a voter is pivotal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319559
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Informational Lobbying and Legislative Voting
Schnakenberg, Keith E. - 2016
In this article I analyze a model of interest group influence on legislative voting through information transmission …. The model shows how interest groups may manipulate voting coalitions to their advantage by crafting different messages to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147869
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Biased forecasts and voting : the Brexit referendum case
Bizzotto, Jacopo; Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2024 - This version: July 1, 2024
This paper explores whether professional macroeconomic forecasters manipulate their forecasts to influence voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583811
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Lobbying of Firms by Voters
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - 2009
A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325896
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Lobbying of firms by voters
Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2009
A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378822
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Biased forecasts to affect voting decisions? : the Brexit case
Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2019
uence voting outcomes. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which voters do not have complete information about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984037
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Biased forecasts to affect voting decisions? : the Brexit case
Cipullo, Davide; Reslow, André - 2019
influence voting outcomes. We develop a probabilistic voting model in which voters do not have complete information about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990008
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949175
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2020
We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Based on 425 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we show that representatives are more likely to vote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211217
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Who is the ultimate boss of legislators : voters, special interest groups or parties?
Stadelmann, David; Torrens, Gustavo - 2020
Politicians have multiple principals. We investigate the weights that politicians put on the revealed preferences of their constituents, special interest groups and party when deciding on legislative proposals. Preferences of constituents, special interest groups and parties are directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012425941