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The cost of proportional representations in electoral system design
Jeong, Byeong-hyeon - In: Economic theory bulletin 12 (2024) 1, pp. 47-56
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Electoral competition with costly policy changes : a dynamic perspective
Gersbach, Hans; Jackson, Matthew O.; Muller, Philippe; … - In: Journal of economic theory 214 (2023), pp. 1-28
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Poverty, Partisanship and Vote Buying
Justesen, Mogens K. - 2017
Electoral contests in Latin America are often characterized by attempts by political parties to sway the outcome of elections using vote buying – a practice that seems to persist during elections throughout the region. Much of the literature on this subject focuses on how party machines use...
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Does a Disadvantaged Candidate Choose an Extremist Position?
Soubeyran, Raphael - 2010
Does a disadvantaged candidate always choose an extremist program? When does a less competent candidate have an incentive to move to extreme positions in order to differentiate himself from the more competent candidate? Recent works answer by the affirmative (Groseclose 1999, Ansolabehere and...
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Electoral competition, political promises and the "responsible party government" hypothesis
Le Maux, Benoît - In: Power and Responsibility : Interdisciplinary …, (pp. 305-329). 2023
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A Political Agency Model of Coattail Voting
Zudenkova, Galina - 2011
This paper provides a theoretical model for the coattail effect, where a popular candidate for one branch of government attracts votes to candidates from the same political party for other branches of government. I assume a political agency framework with moral hazard in order to analyze the...
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Vote Buying of Electorates : A Case Study of Zambian Parliamentary By-Elections
Chulu, Jimmy - 2015
Scholars of political science and development studies argue that issuing of gifts and money to voters during elections can influence the voters’ decision. This study was undertaken to explore whether voting buying, on the Zambian landscape, characterized by the issuance of various gifts to the...
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Electoral Rules, Mobilization, and Turnout
Cox, Gary W. - 2015
This essay reviews models of strategic mobilization and turnout, focusing on two important questions about the effects of electoral rules. First, how does the disproportionality of the electoral system affect the variance and mean of mobilization and turnout? This question has been investigated...
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Laboratory Elections with Endogenous Turnout : Proportional Representation versus Majoritarian Rule
Kartal, Melis - 2014
representation using theory and experiments. Numerous empirical studies have compared turnout across PR and MR. However, the … the size of the minority, but the empirical papers on the topic do not control for it. I also show that, in both theory … theory predicts. I conjecture that, under PR, there is a discouragement effect for the small minority because the PR system …
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Why Vote for Losers?
Castanheira, Micael - 2008
Voting Theory generally concludes that -in first-past-the-post elections- 1) All votes should go to effective …
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