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Does information about rampant political corruption increase electoral participation and the support for challenger parties? Democratic theory assumes that offering more information to voters will enhance electoral accountability. However, if there is consistent evidence suggesting that voters...
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interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …
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propose “redistribution efficiency” as a socially desirable property of proposals and find that tax rules always guarantee … redistribution efficiency. We show that rules on subsidies combined with discretion regarding taxes always yield socially inferior …
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Preventive policy measures such as bailouts often pass parliament very narrowly. We present a model of asymmetric information between politicians and voters which rationalizes this narrow parliamentary outcome. A successful preventive policy impedes the verification of its own necessity. When...
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Voting power in voting situations is measured by the probability of changing decisions by altering the cast 'yes' or … change decisions. This theory is often applied to weighted voting situations, where voters can cast multiple votes. Measuring … reected by a voting game that is not any more simple. We use data from Scotland, Hungary and a number of other countries both …
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the extreme persistence of the effect to the relative incidence of these age groups in the voting population, and explore …
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We consider a committee voting setup with two rounds of voting where committee members who possess private information … information in the first voting period. Coughlan (2000) shows that members reveal their information in a straw poll only if their …
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Using data from an experiment by Forsythe, Myerson, Rietz, and Weber (1993), designed for a different purpose, we test the "standard theory" that players have preferences only over their own mentary payoffs and that play will be in (evolutionary stable) equilibrium. In the experiment each...
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This paper considers the implications of an important cognitive bias in information processing, confirmation bias, in a political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician's actions are observable before the election, we show that when voters have this bias, it...
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A firm may induce voters or elected politicians to support a policy it favors by suggesting that it is more likely to invest in a district whose voters or representatives support the policy. In equilibrium, no one vote may be decisive, and the policy may gain strong support though the majority...
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