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Imperfect Information and the Meltzer-Richard Hypothesis
Bredemeier, Christian - 2010
Standard models of voting on redistribution generate a clear-cut prediction: redistribution increases in income …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295959
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099121
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099154
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287850
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892054
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892069
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Democracy and compliance in public goods games
Gallier, Carlo - 2018
contribution rule significantly increases contributions to the public good. However, democratic participation does not affect … voting. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892125
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Transparency in Parliamentary Voting
Bütler, Monika; Benesch, Christine; Hofer, Katharina - 2015
We exploit a recent change in voting procedures in one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how … online videos ex post. In 2014 - in the middle of the legislation period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. As MPs … decisions are available online, transparency and observability of MP voting increased. Our analysis is based on individual …
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