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Information disclosure in elections with sequential costly participation

Vorobyev, Dmitriy - 2020

during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …

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Voter confirmation bias and electoral accountability

Lockwood, Ben - 2015 - First version: 8 February 2015, This version: 7 June 2015

This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician's actions are observable before the election, we show that when voters have this bias, it...

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A theory on media bias and elections

Sun, Junze; Schram, Arthur; Sloof, Randolph - 2019

We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News released by media allows voters to infer the relative appeal of the two candidates, and the closeness of elections. In large elections, the former determines the election...

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Growth of Electoral Fraud in Non-Democracies : The Role of Uncertainty

Vorobyev, Dmitriy - 2010

theoretical model that explains the observed tendency of growing fraud. Specifically, in a probabilistic voting model of electoral …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190201

The impact of election information shocks on populist party preferences : evidence from Germany

Gerling, Lena; Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2019

Despite controversial debates about the social acceptability of its nationalist program, the rightwing populist AfD has recently entered all state parliaments as well as the federal parliament in Germany. Although professed AfD voters faced a likely risk of social stigmatization, electoral...

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Competing approaches to forecasting elections: economic models, opinion polling and prediction markets

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …

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A case for standard theory?

Kuzmics, Christoph; Rodenburger, Daniel - 2015

Using data from an experiment by Forsythe, Myerson, Rietz, and Weber (1993), designed for a different purpose, we test the "standard theory" that players have preferences only over their own mentary payoffs and that play will be in (evolutionary stable) equilibrium. In the experiment each...

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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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Transparency in parliamentary voting

Benesch, Christine; Bütler, Monika; Hofer, Katharina E. - 2015

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency … affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While …-consuming screening of online videos. In 2014, halfway through the legislative period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. Since …

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Gender gaps in political careers : evidence from competitive elections

Cipullo, Davide - 2021

two-stage elections, candidates are admitted to the second round of voting based on the outcome of the first round. I find …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514279

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