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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430746
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Fractionalization and the Size of Government
Lind, Jo Thori - 2003
fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for … redistribution, inequality between groups have the opposite effect. All these results hold even if a poor group is in majority. Using … increases and between group inequality decreases redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508116
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Unintended consequences : can the rise of the educated class explain the revival of protectionism?
Giordani, Paolo; Mariani, Fabio - 2020
extent of redistribution. In this setting, trade liberalization is politically viable as long as the losers from trade are … may be limited political support for redistribution, and those who are left behind by globalization - namely unskilled … - by favoring the ascent of the educated class and thus eroding the political support for redistribution - may ultimately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168075
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Walk the line : conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2014 - Rev.
This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249669
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The spatial diffusion of social conformity: the case of voting participation
Coleman, Stephen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Social interaction combined with social conformity spreads attitudes and behaviors through a society. This paper examines such a process geographically for compliance with the norm that good citizens should vote. The diffusion of conformist behavior affects the local degree of conformity with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587823
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703380
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Hate at first sight? : dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration : the case of Ukip
Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152189
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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
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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