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The Dark Side of the Vote : Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting
Morton, Rebecca; Piovesan, Marco; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
. In theory, information on the success of policy choices elsewhere de-biases voters and alleviates the inefficiency. In … the experiment, providing social information on success is ineffective. While voters with higher cognitive abilities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014040265
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The Dark Side of the Vote - Biased Voters, Social Information, and Information Aggregation Through Majority Voting
Morton, Rebecca B.; Piovesan, Marco; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2012
. In theory, information on the success of policy choices elsewhere de-biases voters and alleviates the inefficiency. In … the experiment, providing social information on success is ineffective. While voters with higher cognitive abilities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166441
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Replicating "Run-off elections in the laboratory"
Hausladen, Carina Ines; Hu, Shiang-Hung; Levin, Joel M. - 2024
Bouton et al. (2022) compare the properties of majority run-off and plurality rule elections in a laboratory setting, focusing on Duverger's prediction that plurality rule leads to higher levels of strategic voting. They produce a causal estimate of the difference in incidence of strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014491930
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The dark side of the vote : biased voters, social information, and information aggregation through majority voting
Morton, Rebecca B.; Piovesan, Marco; Tyran, Jean-Robert - In: Games and economic behavior 113 (2019), pp. 461-481
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Electoral competition for the 2+1 electoral rule and the close alternatives
Gregor, Martin - 2013
The Anglo-American double-member districts employing plurality-at-large are frequently criticized for giving a large majority premium to a winning party, since the large premium may decrease proportionality of the elected assembly relative to single-member districts. We demonstrate that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009754715
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Chapter 4 Voting procedures
Brams, Steven J.; Fishburn, Peter C. - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 1, (pp. 173-236). 2002
Voting procedures focus on the aggregation of individuals' preferences to produce collective decisions. In practice, a voting procedure is characterized by ballot responses and the way ballots are tallied to determine winners. Voters are assumed to have clear preferences over candidates and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023839
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Assessing the fairness of the EU Council qualified majority voting : a voting power critical perspective of the liberal intergovernmentalist accounts
Ion, Oana Andreea - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 12 (2023) 1, pp. 39-57
The Qualified Majority Voting (QMV) used by the Council of the European Union developed to a high degree of complexity from one modifying treaty to another, until the latest definition stipulated in the Treaty of Lisbon. This paper analyses this EU intra-institutional voting method using a...
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How transparency kills information aggregation : theory and experiment
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2015
's key predictions in a laboratory experiment. The model's predictions are largely borne out - transparency negatively … under secrecy. This occurs despite subjects revealing more information under transparency than theory predicts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516456
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How transparency kills information aggregation : (and why that may be a good thing) ; conference paper
Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2014
high enough. We test the model's key predictions in a laboratory experiment varying the level of transparency between … than in theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486059
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The dark side of the vote: Biased voters, social information, and information aggregation through majority voting
Morton, Rebecca B.; Piovesan, Marco; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2013
minority of voters are biased, but harmful when a majority is biased. In theory, information on the success of policy choices … elsewhere de-biases voters and alleviates the inefficiency. However, in the experiment, providing social information on success … is ineffective and does not de-bias voters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325107