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How Can Voters Classify an Incumbent under Output Persistence
Caleiro, António - 2008
The literature on electoral cycles has developed in two distinct phases. The first one considered the existence of non-rational (naive) voters whereas the second one considered fully rational voters. In our perspective, an intermediate approach is more interesting, i.e. one that considers...
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The Optimal Degree of Polarization
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto - 2001
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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Do Elections lead to Informed Public Decisions?
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2003
and implement public policies, we show that examination takes place in spite of, rather than thanks to, elections …. Elections are needed as a carrot and a stick to motivate politicians, yet politicians who are overly interested in re …
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How Polarization and Political Instability affect Learning through Experimentation
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto H. - 2001
elections (exogenous elections) andthe decision is salient and the election outcome depends on it (endogenous elections).We show …. Furthermore, in contrast to the existing literature, wedemonstrate that, when elections are exogenous, polarization between … political parties does not always decreaseactive learning. In the case with endogenous elections we find that electoral concerns …
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Voting for voters: A model of electoral evolution
Barberà, Salvador; Maschler, Michael B.; Shalev, Jonathan - 1998
periods and holds elections at the beginning of each period; one vote is sufficient for admission, and voters can support as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608403
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Campaigns, political mobility, and communication
Gersbach, Hans - 2009
We present a model of elections in which interest group donations allow candidates to shift policy positions. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266018
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Reforming legislatures : is one house better than two?
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2009
elections, we show that when time constraints are binding, bicameralism might lead to a decline in the legislator's bargaining …
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Electoral control when policies are for sale
Farvaque, Etienne; Lagadec, Gaël - 2009
This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], Protection for sale, American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...
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Information markets, elections and contracts
Gersbach, Hans; Müller, Markus - 2011
democratic elections. An information market is used to predict the long-term performance of a policy, while threshold contracts …
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Tax Contracts and Elections
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2009
In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We …
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