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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 … preferences are in fact homogeneous. By taking costs of time into account, we demonstrate that committees have strictly higher …
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Partisan Interactions : Evidence from a Field Experiment in the United States
Perez-Truglia, Ricardo; Cruces, Guillermo - 2015
Since campaign contributions reveal the actor’s party leanings, they take place in a domain of social observation and are likely to be subject to social effects. We conducted a field experiment to identify some of these social effects. We sent letters to 92,000 contributors from all U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014146325
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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?
Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015
This paper uses variation in the timing of the Mexican antipoverty program's introduction across municipalities to identify its impact on the share of votes for the local incumbent party. Evidence is found that voters reward the mayor's party for the central benefit to their constituencies,...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197548
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Knowledge is power : a theory of information, income, and welfare spending
Lind, Jo Thori; Rohner, Dominic - 2013
model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of poor voters, and cause parties …, income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters than for less informed voters. Further, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222122
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Citizens or lobbies : who controls policy?
Roberti, Paolo - 2016
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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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...
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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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Trump's first triumph : the US republican primaries 2016 : an analysis of socio-demographic, time-related and regional influences
Stoetzer, Matthias-Wolfgang; Gerlich, Steffen; … - 2017 - 1. draft
voting shares. The regression analyses show that a larger proportion of White Americans leads to an increasing share of votes …
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Peer effects on the United States Supreme Court
Holden, Richard; Keane, Michael P.; Lilley, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 3, pp. 981-1019
Using data on essentially every U.S. Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We estimate the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify the peer effects, we use two instruments that generate plausibly...
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