This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological …

This paper studies the nonparametric identification and estimation of voters' preferences when voters are ideological …

Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on … positional power in hierarchies is that it is mainly restricted to the analysis of power in terms of the bare positions of the …-established approaches for the analysis of power in non-hierarchical organizations such as the Banzhaf measure; and thus they are all based …

effect. It further varies with politicians power, firm size and governance, and connection strength, and diminishes as a …

This paper studies the effects of power-concentrating institutions on the quality of political selection, i.e., the … arises. We find that power-concentrating institutions amplify this selection problem as they increase electoral stakes and … thus the incentives for mimicking. However, they also allocate more political power to the voters' preferred candidate. As …