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Government and cities : contests and the decentralization of decision making
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government's support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...
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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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Delegation or Voting
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2002
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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Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rhoner, Dominic - 2011
informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
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Knowledge is power: A theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2011
informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316941
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Euclidean preferences, option sets and strategyproofness
Bordes, Georges; Laffond, Gilbert; Le Breton, Michel - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 2 (2011) 4, pp. 469-483
In this note, we use the technique of option sets to sort out the implications of coalitional strategyproofness in the spatial setting. We also discuss related issues and open problems.
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A political winner's curse : why preventive policies pass parliament so narrowly
Meulen, Philipp an de; Bredemeier, Christian - 2012
Preventive policy measures such as bailouts often pass parliament very narrowly. We present a model of asymmetric information between politicians and voters which rationalizes this narrow parliamentary outcome. A successful preventive policy impedes the verification of its own necessity. When...
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Competition, cooperation, and collective choice
Markussen, Thomas; Reuben, Ernesto; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …
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On two-period committee voting : why straw polls should have consequences
Frommeyer, Tim Julius - 2015
We consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members who possess private information … information in the first voting period. Coughlan (2000) shows that members reveal their information in a straw poll only if their …
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Bargaining in the presence of condorcet cycles : the role of asymmetries
Kamm, Aaron; Houba, Harold - 2015
This paper reports results from a laboratory experiment studying the role of asymmetries, both in payoffs and recognition probabilities, in a model of strategic bargaining with Condorcet cycles. Overall, we find only limited support for the equilibrium predictions. The main deviations from...
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