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studies strategic voting when voters have pure common values but may be ambiguity averse -- exhibit Ellsberg-type behavior …
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, but the magnitude of this effect was small and statistically insignificant. In fact, non-voting appears particularly high …
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Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core … QV literature assumes that everyone votes, turnout is endogenous. Drawing on other work, we consider the … representativeness of endogenously determined turnout under QV. Second, who will vote quadratically? Conditional on turning out, we …
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Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence … vanish and turnout is driven entirely by individuals' direct costs and benefits from the act of voting itself. Under certain … conditions, the level of turnout is irrelevant to representativeness and thus to voting outcomes. Under others, \anything is …
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We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the …. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …
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copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout …
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ideological policy dimension. Voters achieve this outcome by following a simple lexicographic voting strategy. They cast their …
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The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the probability of casting a decisive vote for a class or random electorate models encompassing the celebrated IC and IAC models. The emphasis is on the impact of correlation across votes on the order of magnitude of this event. Our proof techniques...
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economic inequality affects voting and other forms of political participation. This evidence is largely driven by advanced … initial theoretical predictions, we find evidence for a positive association between voter turnout and inequality in rural …. In line with prior theoretical expectations, we find a negative association between inequality and voting for the …
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Which electorates receive targeted funding, and does targeted funding swing votes? To answer these questions, I analyze four discretionary programs funded by the Australian federal government during the 2001-2004 election cycle. Controlling for relevant demographic characteristics of the...
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