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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 …
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in line with our theory. -- Redistribution ; Welfare Spending ; Information ; Income ; Voting ; Political Economics … informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in a ecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
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in line with our theory. -- redistribution ; welfare spending ; information ; income ; voting ; political economics … informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314546
in line with our theory. -- Redistribution ; Welfare Spending ; Information ; Income ; Voting ; Political Economics … informed than others. We develop a model where the voting mistakes resulting from low political knowledge reduce the weight of …. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740156
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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populism and populist voting in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. I discover that recent unemployment during the Great …
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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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In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …
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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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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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