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Voting for redistribution under desert-sensitive altruism

LUTTENS, Roland Iwan; VALFORT, Marie-Anne - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008

in a voting model where a unidimensional redistributive parameter is chosen by majority voting in a direct democracy …

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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015

-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and … allows quantifying monetary benefits associated with each ticket. We find that turnout is much higher among students who … benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …

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Pocketbook voting, social preferences, and expressive motives in referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2017

We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and … strongly influence participation and voting. However, social or expressive motives, such as stated altruism, environmental … pocketbook benefits do not explain voting, then voting is expressive. If the perceived probability of being pivotal is non …

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Serving the Public Interest

Markussen, Thomas; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2010

We present a model of political selection in which voters elect a president from a set of candidates. We assume that some of the candidates are benevolent and that all voters prefer a benevolent president, i.e. a president who serves the public interest. Yet, political selection may fail in our...

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