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Voice of the diaspora: An analysis of migrant voting behavior

Fidrmuc, Jan; Doyle, Orla - 2005

home countries. The political preferences of migrants as manifested by their voting behavior are strikingly different from … those of their home-country counterparts. In addition, there are important differences in voting patterns across migrants … living in different countries. We examine three explanations of migrant voting behavior: adaptive learning; economic self …

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Liberalization, democracy and economic performance during transition

Fidrmuc, Jan - 2000

This paper analyzes the inter-relations between economic and political processes during transition in 25 post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The main findings are the following: First, economic liberalization generally has positive effect on growth...

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Bandwagon voting or false-consensus effect in voting experiments? First results and methodological limits

Bischoff, Ivo; Egbert, Henrik - 2008

In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voting decisions in the social science literature. Redoing Tyran's experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence …

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Does membership on the UN security council influence IMF conditionality?

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2010

We investigate whether elected members of the United Nations Security Council receive favorable treatment from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), analyzing panel data on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the period of 1992 to...

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How should large and small countries be represented in a currency union?

Berger, Helge; Müller, Till - 2004

apparent mismatch between relative economic size and voting rights in the Council. We present a simple model of optimal … representation in a federal central bank addressing this question. Optimal voting weights reflect two opposing forces: the wish to … passive reaction to idiosyncratic national economic shocks. A perfect match between economic size and voting rights is rarely …

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Moral cost, commitment, and committee size

Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A. - 2003

Consider a committee that in the past has made a promise not to confiscate the profits from a foreign investor. After the investment has taken place, there is a material benefit if the committee decides to default on the earlier promise. But there are also some small moral costs for those who...

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Inverse campaigning

Konrad, Kai A. - 2002

It can be advantageous for an office motivated party A to spend effort to make it public that a group of voters will lose from party A’s policy proposal. Such effort is called inverse campaigning. The inverse campaigning equilibria are described for the case where the two parties can...

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Legislative bargaining and the dynamics of public investment

Battaglini, Marco; Nunnari, Salvatore; Palfrey, Thomas - 2011

each district. We analyze the Markov perfect equilibrium under different voting q-rules where q is the number of yes votes … experiment with fiveperson committees that compares three alternative voting rules: unanimity (q=5); majority (q=3); and …

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Social Media Use and Political Mobilization

Holmes, Justin W; McNeal, Ramona S - In: International Journal of Public Administration in the … 5 (2018) 4, pp. 50-60

This article describes how political participation is a central component of democracy. Past research has found that a variety of factors drive individual decisions about participation, including the media that citizens use to gain political information. Social media offers the possibility of...

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Alternative Review Screen Design for Electronic Voting Systems

Kortum, Philip; Holmes, Danae V. - In: International Journal of Technology and Human … 13 (2017) 1, pp. 82-99

weakness, this study evaluated the usability and viability of alternative ballot verification methods in an electronic voting … terms of voting. Additional research in the field is the next step in exploring these confirmation methods. …

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