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Andersen, Asger Lau; Jensen, Thomas - 2010

We set up a model of elections or referendums with two alternatives to study how voter turnout and election outcomes …

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Looking beyond the incumbent: The effects of exposing corruption on electoral outcomes

Chong, Alberto; De La O, Ana L.; Karlan, Dean; … - 2012

copious corruption not only decreases incumbent support in local elections in Mexico, but also decreases voter turnout …

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Elections, contracts and markets

Gersbach, Hans; Müller, Markus - 2006 - This version: May 2006

contracts, and democratic elections. An information market is used to predict the long-term performance of a policy, while …

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Tax contracts and elections

Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2009 - This version: December 2009

In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We …

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Political selection and the concentration of political power

Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2015

This paper studies the effects of power-concentrating institutions on the quality of political selection, i.e., the voters' capacity to identify and empower well-suited politicians. In our model, candidates are heterogeneous in two unobservable quality aspects: ability and public-spiritedness....

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On ignorant voters and busy politicians

Aytimur, R. Emre; Bruns, Christian - 2015

We show that a large electorate of ignorant voters can succeed in establishing high levels of electoral accountability. In our model an incumbent politician is confronted with a large number of voters who receive very noisy signals about her performance. We find that the accountability problem...

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How polarization and political instability affect learning through experimentation

Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto H. - 2001

elections (exogenous elections) andthe decision is salient and the election outcome depends on it (endogenous elections).We show …. Furthermore, in contrast to the existing literature, wedemonstrate that, when elections are exogenous, polarization between … political parties does not always decreaseactive learning. In the case with endogenous elections we find that electoral concerns …

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Political selection and the concentration of political power : conference paper

Grunewald, Andreas; Hansen, Emanuel; Pönitzsch, Gert - 2014

This paper studies the effects of power-concentrating institutions on the quality of political selection, i.e., the voters' capacity to identify and empower competent politicians. In our model, candidates are privately informed about their abilities and are driven by office rents as well as...

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Information and targeted spending

Eguia, Jon X.; Nicolò, Antonio - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 14 (2019) 2, pp. 373-402

We present an electoral theory on the public provision of local public goods to an imperfectly informed electorate. We show that electoral incentives lead to greater spending if the electorate is not well informed. A more informed electorate induces candidates to target funds only to specific...

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Who will vote quadratically? : voter turnout and votes cast under quadratic voting

Kaplow, Louis; Kominers, Scott Duke - 2016

Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core … examine reasons that, in large-N elections, the number of votes that an individual casts may deviate substantially from that …

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