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On two-period committee voting : why straw polls should have consequences

Frommeyer, Tim Julius - 2015

We consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members who possess private information … information in the first voting period. Coughlan (2000) shows that members reveal their information in a straw poll only if their …

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"Green" voting and ideology : LCV scores and roll-call voting in the US senate, 1988 - 1998

Nelson, Jon Paul - In: The review of economics and statistics 84 (2002) 3, pp. 518-529

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'Green' Voting and Ideology : Lcv Scores and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. Senate, 1988-1998

Nelson, Jon P. - 2013

This study evaluates the roles of ideology, constituency, and political party for roll-call voting in the U.S. Senate … on a broad set of environmental issues. The study estimates a model of political support using voting scores from the … for voting profiles on environmental issues; and party affiliation and regional loyalty explain about 74% of measured …

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'Green' Voting and Ideology : Lcv Scores and Roll-Call Voting in the U.S. Senate, 1988-1998

Nelson, Jon P. - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014120033

Fair apportionment in the view of the Venice Commission's recommendation

Biró, Péter; Kóczy, László Á.; Sziklai, Balázs - 2013

In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …

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Congressional vote options

King, David C.; Zeckhauser, Richard - 1999

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949175

Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2020

We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Based on 425 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we show that representatives are more likely to vote...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2024

We investigate whether US House representatives favour special interest groups over constituents in periods of low media attention to politics. Analysing 666 roll calls from 2005 to 2018, we show that representatives are more likely to vote against their constituency's preferred position the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512422

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