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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943081
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949175
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2020
We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Based on 425 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we show that representatives are more likely to vote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211217
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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2024
We investigate whether US House representatives favour special interest groups over constituents in periods of low media attention to politics. Analysing 666 roll calls from 2005 to 2018, we show that representatives are more likely to vote against their constituency's preferred position the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512422
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Spatial advertisement in political campaigns
Prummer, Anja - 2016
This paper characterizes the optimal advertising strategy of candidates in an election campaign, where groups of heterogeneous voters are targeted through media outlets. We discuss its effects on the implemented policy and relate it to the well-documented increase in polarization. Additionally,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576206
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Campaigning in direct democracies : initiative petition signing, voter turnout, and acceptance
Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010244862
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450920
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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015
affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516456
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How transparency kills information aggregation : (and why that may be a good thing) ; conference paper
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2014
We show theoretical and experimental results that demonstrate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision making and deliberation. We present a model in which committee members have career concerns and unanimity is needed to change the status quo. We study three scenarios -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486059
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Minority protection in voting mechanisms : experimental evidence
Engelmann, Dirk; Grüner, Hans Peter; Hoffmann, Timo; … - 2023
Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …
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