related to the incoherence cost that politicians pay when they renege on promised platforms. In this context, we suggest a …

We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in … the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by … around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election-motivated - even when submitting roll-call votes on …

Due to its simplicity the plurality voting system is frequently used to choose a common representative or project … experimental results for the plurality voting scheme. -- efficiency ; experiments ; mechanism design ; public project ; uncertainty … ; voting rules …