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Voting on redistribution with tax evasion
Borck, Rainald - 2003
This paper analyzes voting on a linear income tax which is redistributed lump sum to the taxpayers. Individuals can …
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition emerges. Waiting allows voters to express the intensity of...
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Voting as a war of attrition
Kwiek, Maksymilian; Marreiros, Helia; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011945990
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Terrorism and voting : the rise of right-wing populism in Germany
Sabet, Navid; Liebald, Marius; Friebel, Guido - 2023
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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Committees and special interests
Felgenhauer, Mike; Grüner, Hans Peter - 2003
committees benefits from voting insincerely accrue not only when a decision maker's vote is pivotal. As the number of voters … increases, the cost of voting insincerely declines in an open committee because the probability of being pivotal declines. This … is not the case in a closed committee where costs and benefits of insincere voting only arise when a voter is pivotal. …
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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms
Siedler, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822476
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Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools
Dottori, Davide; Shen, I-Ling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822703
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The Vanishing Bequest Tax: The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxation in Historical Perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Several countries have recently abolished or significantly reduced their taxes on bequests. Bequest taxes, on the other hand, were among the first to be introduced when modern systems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. We propose an explanation for these facts which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822982
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Algebraic Properties of Effectivity Functions.
Gurvich, V.A. - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 1991
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Voting in small networks with cross-pressure
Andina-Díaz, Ascensión; Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel A. - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2006
voting against the alternative preferred by some of their social contacts. We analyze how the existence of cross …-pressures may shape voting decisions, and so, political outcomes; and how candidates may exploit this e¤ect to their interest. …
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