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This paper studies the effect of pre-election polls on the participation decision of citizens in a large, two …-candidate election, and the resulting incentives for the poll participants. Citizens have private values and voting is costly and … candidate wins the election almost surely, regardless of voters' posterior beliefs. …
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election, and a Condorcet losing candidate wins with positive probability. Finally, some candidates who reach the second round …
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We analyze a psychologically-based model of voter turnout in an election with common value and uncertainty. Our model …
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A policymaker selects a group of citizens—a minipublic—to advise her on the desirability of a policy. Each citizen can discover local evidence about the policy but might prefer not to due to political uncertainty in the policymaker’s adoption threshold. Such uncertainty is detrimental to...
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year of a gubernatorial election, the elasticity of investment to the eventual margin of victory is 0.027. Both the …
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