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Political polarization has ruptured the fabric of U.S. society. The focus of this paper is to examine various layers of (non-)strategic decision-making that are plausibly affected by political polarization through the lens of one's feelings of hate and love for Donald J. Trump. In several...
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When is a finite number of binary voting choices consistent with the hypothesis that the voter has preferences that … voting decisions. Without knowledge of the location of the voting alternatives, voting decisions by multiple voters impose no … joint testable restrictions on the location of their ideal points, even in one dimension. Furthermore, the voting records of …
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Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative ballot outcomes and...
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this paper, we explore deviations from rational voting using quasi-random variation in candidate name placement on ballots … the 2000 U.S. Presidential Election and the 2004 Washington Gubernatorial Election. We explore which voting technology …
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Public choice theory has originally been motivated by the need to correct the asymmetry, widespread in traditional welfare economics, between the motivational assumptions of market participants and policymakers: Those who played the game of politics should also be considered rational and...
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I conduct an experiment to assess whether majority voting on a nonbinding sharing norm affects subsequent behavior in a … dictator game. In a baseline treatment, subjects play a one shot dictator game. In a voting treatment, subjects are first …
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