probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole's "feedback" case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …

In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …

studies strategic voting when voters have pure common values but may be ambiguity averse -- exhibit Ellsberg-type behavior …

Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core … QV literature assumes that everyone votes, turnout is endogenous. Drawing on other work, we consider the … representativeness of endogenously determined turnout under QV. Second, who will vote quadratically? Conditional on turning out, we …

Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence … vanish and turnout is driven entirely by individuals' direct costs and benefits from the act of voting itself. Under certain … conditions, the level of turnout is irrelevant to representativeness and thus to voting outcomes. Under others, \anything is …

. The results show that realized investment ratios decreased in years when state elections occurred relative to the average … develop better before state elections and worse after state elections. The second part of this dissertation investigates how … politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …

We develop a model of political competition with endogenous turnout and endogenous platforms. Parties trade off … incentivizing their supporters to vote and discouraging the supporters of the competing party from voting. We show that the latter …