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 …

urban, more educated and relatively wealthier municipalities. Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that politicians …

related to the incoherence cost that politicians pay when they renege on promised platforms. In this context, we suggest a …

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 …

In an economic theory of voting, voters have positive or negative costs of voting in favor of a proposal and positive … or negative benefits from an accepted proposal. When votes have equal weight then simultaneous voting mostly has a unique … pure strategy Nash equilibrium which is independent of benefits. Voting with respect to (arbitrarily small) costs alone …

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 …