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This chapter surveys the literature on strategy proofness from a historical perspective. While I discuss the connections with other works on incentives in mechanism design, the main emphasis is on social choice models.
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The average voting procedure reflects the weighted average of expressed opinions in [0,1]. Participants typically … taste is central enough, the range of possible values for the average voting outcome is narrower than the corresponding … range for majority voting. For instance, if the average taste is at 1/2, the limit equilibrium outcome is this value plus or …
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preferences (i.e. a 'voting rule')? And if so, which voting rule best describes their behavior? We show that a prominent neural … network can be trained to respect two fundamental principles of voting theory, the unanimity principle and the Pareto property … chooses, and find that among a number of popular voting rules its behavior mimics most closely the Borda rule. Indeed, the …
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We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
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We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
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We show that the electorate’s preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
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It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...
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are related to distribution of voting power in the EU Council of Ministers as reflecting the influence of member states … political parties, is there a difference between a priori voting power of national groups in the case of nationalʺ coordination … of voting and in the case of partisanʺ coordination of voting? By coordination of voting we mean two step process: in the …
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This paper analyses a model of electoral competition with lobbying, where candidates hold private information about their willingness to pander to lobbies, if elected. I show that this uncertainty induces risk-averse voters to choose candidates who implement policies biased in favor of the...
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