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Lobbying in a multidimensional policy space with salient issues

Roberti, Paolo - 2014

We present a citizen-candidate model on a multidimensional policy space with lobbying, where citizens regard some … offset the effect of lobbying on the implemented policy. This result is in sharp contrast with previous work on … unidimensional citizen-candidate models that predict the irrelevance of lobbying on the implemented policy. In an extension of the …

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Strategic voting in large elections

Spenkuch, Jörg L. - 2013

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Voting as a Rational Choice : Why and How People Vote to Improve the Well-Being of Others

Edlin, Aaron S. - 2010

For voters with quot;socialquot; preferences, the expected utility of voting is approximately independent of the size of the electorate, suggesting that rational voter turnouts can be substantial even in large elections. Less important elections are predicted to have lower turnout, but a...

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Voting as a Rational Choice : Why and How People Vote to Improve the Well-Being of Others

Edlin, Aaron - 2007

For voters with "social" preferences, the expected utility of voting is approximately independent of the size of the electorate, suggesting that rational voter turnouts can be substantial even in large elections. Less important elections are predicted to have lower turnout, but a feedback...

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Assessment voting in large electorates

Gersbach, Hans; Mamageishvili, Akaki; Tejada, Oriol - 2017 - This version: December 2017

We analyze Assessment Voting, a new two-round voting procedure that can be applied to binary decisions in democratic societies. In the first round, a randomly-selected number of citizens cast their vote on one of the two alternatives at hand, thereby irrevocably exercising their right to vote....

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Rationalization of Indecisive Choice Behavior by Majoritarian Ballots

Alcantud, José Carlos R.; Cantone, Domenico Aldo; … - 2022

We describe a model that explains possibly indecisive choice behavior, that is, quasi-choices (choice correspondences that may be empty on some menus). The justification is here provided by a proportion of ballots, which are quasi-choices rationalizable by an arbitrary binary relation. We call a...

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