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Dahm, Matthias; Dur, Robert A. J.; Glazer, Amihai - 2009

A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...

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Preference intensities in repeated collective decision-making : conference paper

Drexl, Moritz; Kleiner, Andreas - 2013

voting rules which are criticized for being inefficient as they do not condition on preference intensities. The dynamic … information on preference intensities. Nonetheless, we show that often simple voting is optimal for two-person committees. This …

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Science and ideology in economic, political, and social thought

Hillinger, Claude - 2006

This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...

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Migration and the welfare state : the economic power of the non-voter?

Boerner, Kira; Übelmesser, Silke - 2005

This paper investigates the impact of emigration on the political choice regarding the size of the welfare state. Mobility has two countervailing effects: the political participation effect and the tax base effect. With emigration, the composition of the constituency changes. This increases the...

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Why people obey the law : experimental evidence from the provision of public goods

Feld, Lars P.; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2002

-riding. However, people also obey law backed by mild sanctions if it is accepted in a referendum. We show that voting for mild law …

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Proportional payoffs in legislative bargaining with weighted voting : a characterization

Montero, María - 2016

We examine the relationship between voting weights and expected equilibrium payoffs in legislative bargaining and …

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How weak is the weakest-link principle? : on the measurement of firm owners' control rights

Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2004

voting power indices, is proposed, and the different measures are compared using a sample of large listed German firms. The …

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Tax morale and optimal taxation : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Behavioral Public Economics, July 2004

Güth, Werner; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2004

We study experimentally how taxpayers choose between two tax regimes to fund a public good. The first-best tax regime imposes a general, distortion-free income tax. However, this tax cannot be enforced. The second-best alternative supplements the income tax by a specific commodity tax. This tax...

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The political economy of corruption and the role of financial institutions : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Boerner, Kira; Hainz, Christa - 2004

positions. In a probabilistic voting model, we show that a lack of financial institutions can lead to more corruption as more …

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Effects of welfare reform on women's voting participation

Dave, Dhaval; Corman, Hope; Reichman, Nancy E. - 2016

Voting is an important form of civic participation in democratic societies but a fundamental right that many citizens … do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the U.S. in the 1990s on voting of low income … women. Using the November Current Population Surveys with the added Voting and Registration Supplement for the years 1990 …

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