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An experimental study of voting with costly delay
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2015
A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336977
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How does information about inequality shape voting intentions and preferences for redistribution? : evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Indonesia
Hoy, Christopher; Toth, Russell; Nurina Merdikawati - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422622
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Politicians' coherence and government debt
Bellettini, Giorgio; Roberti, Paolo - 2016
related to the incoherence cost that politicians pay when they renege on promised platforms. In this context, we suggest a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011703349
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Conservative politicians and voting on same-sex marriage
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017
We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in … the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by … around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election-motivated - even when submitting roll-call votes on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742931
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Fake news, voter overconfidence, and the quality of democratic choice
Kartal, Melis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012319244
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Local electoral rewards from centralized social programs : are mayors getting the credit?
Rodríguez-Chamussy, Lourdes - 2015
urban, more educated and relatively wealthier municipalities. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that politicians …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289331
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872697
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011945990
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Adversarial economic preferences predict right-wing voting
Buser, Thomas - 2024
I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450636
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Adversarial economic preferences predict right-wing voting
Buser, Thomas - 2024
I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014454696