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Kuzmics, Christoph; Rodenburger, Daniel - 2015

Using data from an experiment by Forsythe, Myerson, Rietz, and Weber (1993), designed for a different purpose, we test the "standard theory" that players have preferences only over their own mentary payoffs and that play will be in (evolutionary stable) equilibrium. In the experiment each...

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Political advertising and election outcomes

Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Toniatti, David - 2016 - First Draft: February 2015, This Version: December 2015

no impact on aggregate turnout. The point estimates are precise enough to rule out even moderately sized effects. By … regression discontinuity design with millions of observations suggests that advertising's impact on elections is largely due to …

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Contest with Attack and Defence: Does Negative Campaigning Increase or Decrease Voters Turnout?

Soubeyran, Raphaël - 2005

on voters turnout, and show that the conclusion depends on the distribution of voters sensitivity to defence and attack …

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Information on the ballot, voter satisfaction and election turnout

Sajons, Christoph - 2016

candidates on the ballot affects the satisfaction and turnout of voters in low-profile elections in which most candidates are … experimental exit-poll of voters at local elections in two German states in 2014 in which respondents faced a hypothetical election … translates directly into a greater willingness to take part in the hypothetical election (“turnout”), especially for individuals …

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Electoral turnout during states of emergency and effects on incumbent vote shares

Frank, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Torgler, Benno - 2021

prohibited and only postal voting was allowed. We contrast turnout of the first and second ballot in 2020 with the first and …Bavarian mayors are elected by majority rule in two-round (runoff) elections. Between the first and second ballot of … to fight the spread of Covid-19, including a shutdown of public life. For the second ballot, voting in person was …

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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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