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ideological policy dimension. Voters achieve this outcome by following a simple lexicographic voting strategy. They cast their …
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probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole's "feedback" case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic …
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In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …
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studies strategic voting when voters have pure common values but may be ambiguity averse -- exhibit Ellsberg-type behavior …
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Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core … examine reasons that, in large-N elections, the number of votes that an individual casts may deviate substantially from that …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few …
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Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence … determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many …. Accordingly, we examine a complementary model of large-N elections at the opposite end of the spectrum, where pivotality effects …
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Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who...
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This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …
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opportunistic (electorally motivated) from benevolent (non-electorally motivated) behaviour. The paper shows in which circumstances …
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In the literature on electoral politics full convergence of policy platforms is usually regarded as socially optimal. Thereason is that risk-averse voters prefer a sure middle-of-the-road policy to a lottery of two extremes with the sameexpectation. In this paper we study the normative...
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