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Chesterley, Nicholas; Roberti, Paolo - 2016

This paper considers electoral behavior and institutional capture when voters choose between a populist and non-populist politician. Populist politicians provide voters with a utility boom followed by a subsequent bust, as in Dornbusch and Edwards (The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin...

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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...

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Robust information aggregation through voting

Midjord, Rune; Rodríguez Barraquer, Tomás; Valasek, Justin - 2019

Numerous theoretical studies have shown that information aggregation through voting is fragile. We consider a model of … information aggregation with vote-contingent payoffs and generically characterize voting behavior in large committees. We use this …

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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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The political economy of higher education finance : how information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

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From citizen's rights to civic responsibilities

Ronconi, Lucas - 2019

less likely to comply with civic duties such as voting and paying taxes. Exclusion erodes civic responsibilities. …

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Voting on pensions : a survey

De Walque, Gregory - 2004

The paper presents a non-exhaustive survey of the literature designed to explain emergence, size and political sustainability of pay-as-you-go pension systems. It proposes a simple framework of analysis (a small open two overlapping generation economy model), around which some variants are...

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Political-economic aspects of renewable energy: voting on the level of renewable energy support

Udalov, Vladimir - 2014

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Media content's role in the making of a democrat : evidence from East Germany

Friehe, Tim; Müller, Helge; Neumeier, Florian - 2017

This paper explores the causal influence of access to Western television programming on voting behavior. We exploit a …

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On the weights of nations : assigning voting weights in a heterogeneous union

Barberà, Salvador; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2004

Consider a voting procedure where countries, states, or districts comprising a union each elect representatives who … characterization of the efficient voting rule in terms of the weights assigned to different districts and the voting threshold (how … correlation structure of agents preferences, we analyze how voting weights relate to the population size of a country. We then …

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