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Three-Candidate Competition When Candidates Have Valence: Stochastic Voting

Evrenk, Haldun; Kha, Dmitriy - Economics Department, Suffolk University - 2010

We study the effects of stochastic (probabilistic) voting on equilibrium locations, equilibrium vote shares and comparative statics in a setup with three heterogenous candidates and a single-dimensional issue space. Comparing the equilibria with and without stochastic voting, we find that under...

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Three-Candidate Competition when Candidates Have Valence: The Base Case

Evrenk, Haldun - Economics Department, Suffolk University - 2008

-policy characteristics (valence). If the voters' policy preferences are represented by a strictly convex loss function, and if the voter … conditions. The global Nash Equilibrium, however, exists when only one candidate has a valence advantage (or disadvantage) while … the other two candidates have the same valence …

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The Economics of Minority Language Use : Theory and Empirical Evidence for a Language Game Model

Sperlich, Stefan - 2019

Language and cultural diversity is a fundamental aspect of the present world. We study three modern multilingual societies -the Basque Country, Ireland and Wales- which are endowed with two, linguistically distant, official languages: A, spoken by all individuals, and B, spoken by a bilingual...

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Three-candidate spatial competition when candidates have valence: stochastic voting

Evrenk, Haldun; Kha, Dmitriy - In: Public Choice 147 (2011) 3, pp. 421-438

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The variable choice set logit model applied to the 2004 Canadian election

Gallego, Maria; Schofield, Norman; McAlister, Kevin; … - In: Public choice 158 (2013) 3/4, pp. 427-463

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Equilibria in the spatial stochastic model of voting with party activists

Schofield, Norman - In: Review of Economic Design 10 (2006) 3, pp. 183-203

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The variable choice set logit model applied to the 2004 Canadian election

Gallego, Maria; Schofield, Norman; McAlister, Kevin; … - In: Public Choice 158 (2014) 3, pp. 427-463

share. We find that in the local Nash equilibrium for the election the two main parties with high competence valence, the … Liberals and Conservatives, locate at the national electoral mean and the Bloc Québécois, with the highest competence valence …, locates at the Québec electoral mean. The New Democratic Party has a low competence valence but remains at the national mean …

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Partially Binding Platforms: Political Promises as a Partial Commitment Device

Asako, Yasushi - Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan - 2010

This paper examines the effects of campaign platforms in political competition when campaign platforms are partially binding: a candidate who implements a policy different from his/her platform must pay a cost of betrayal that increases with the size of the discrepancy. With partially binding...

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Don't tax me? Determinants of individual attitudes toward progressive taxation

Heinemann, Friedrich; Hennighausen, Tanja - 2010

This contribution empirically analyses the individual determinants of tax rate preferences. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS) that offers data on the individual attitudes toward progressive, proportional, and regressive taxation. Our...

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E-government: the youngest brother

Insa-Ciriza, Raquel; Pujol-Jover, Maria; Riera-Prunera, … - 2014

Information technology has become a very important issue in citizens' relations. It started with e-commerce followed by e-business and ended by e-government. Firms and consumers use internet to provide information and perform many of their business actions. During the last years Governments also...

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