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"We propose a new game theoretic approach to modeling large elections that overcomes the "paradox of voting" in a costly voting framework, without reliance on the assumption of ad hoc preferences for voting. The key innovation that we propose is the adoption of a "smooth" policy rule under which...
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This paper examines the incentives for a party leader in office and for a parties' rank-and-file to replace a sitting member of parliament. As to the leader's decision, we show that the leader prefers to replace a critical member of parliament who votes against the leader's policy. A competent...
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performance of their leaders. In this article, we analyse how party cues (i.e., politicians' party membership acting as a cue … towards their characteristics) affect voters' incomplete information about politicians in a federal setting. We first of all … show that party cues allow indirect inference regarding politicians using observed policy outcomes, alleviating the …
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