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Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing,...
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Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few … that require a different research agenda to bring into focus. Some of our analysis also has implications for voting …
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Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence … determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many … vanish and turnout is driven entirely by individuals' direct costs and benefits from the act of voting itself. Under certain …
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using laboratory experiments. A purely rational choice perspective of a simple voting environment implies that information …
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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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