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Taxing Expats. A Study in Instrumental versus Expressive Voting

Blankart, Charles B.; Margraf, Simon - 2010

A fundamental question in public choice is: How do people vote? According to the preferred outcome (instrumentally) or according to principles (expressively)? The theoretical discussion eventually led to the hypothesis that voters vote non-strategically according to their preferences, as the...

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Debt-Sensitive Majority Rules

Grimm, Oliver; Becker, Johannes; Gersbach, Hans - 2010

We examine debt-sensitive majority rules. According to such a rule, the higher a planned public debt, the higher the necessary parliamentary majority to approve it. In a two-period model, we compare debt-sensitive majority rules with the simple majority rule when individuals differ regarding...

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The Political Economy of Corruption and and the Role of Financial Institutions

Hainz, Christa; Boerner, Kira - 2005

probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead more corruption as more voters are part of the …

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Incentives dominate selection: Chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences

Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019

The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....

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Quality of Local Public Good Provision and Electoral Support

Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019

new insights into the link between local governmental spending and voting behavior. …

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Who is the ultimate boss of legislators: Voters, special interest groups or parties?

Stadelmann, David; Torrens, Gustavo - 2020

Politicians have multiple principals. We investigate the weights that politicians put on the revealed preferences of their constituents, special interest groups and party when deciding on legislative proposals. Preferences of constituents, special interest groups and parties are directly...

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Rent-seeking and the polarization of politics

Klingelhöfer, Jan - 2018

I present a model in which a centrist electorate leads to partisan politics and vice versa. A centrist electorate benefits from an equilibrium in which only ideological politicians are elected in so far as ideological politicians are willing to give up more rents in return for a higher chance of...

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Immigration and Electoral Support for the Far-Left and the Far-Right

Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2018

several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … no robust effect on far-left voting. The increased support for far-right candidates is driven by low educated immigrants …

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Democracy and compliance in public goods games

Gallier, Carlo - 2018

voting. …

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Redistribution policy and offshoring in general equilibrium

Kohl, Miriam; Naumann, Fabrice - 2021

We look at the effect of domestic redistribution policy on offshoring in an asymmetric two country model of … monopolistic competition, heterogeneous firms and occupational choice. The redistribution scheme is modeled by a combination of a … progressive income tax and a lump-sum transfer. We find that the redistribution scheme lowers the degree of globalization measured …

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