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Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - 2014

Public choice theory has originally been motivated by the need to correct the asymmetry, widespread in traditional welfare economics, between the motivational assumptions of market participants and policymakers: Those who played the game of politics should also be considered rational and...

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Does money make people right-wing and inegalitarian? : a longitudinal study of lottery winners

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

voting is driven partly by human self-interest. Money apparently makes people more right-wing. …

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Solving the inverse power problem in two-tier voting settings

Weber, Matthias - 2014

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, where each group is … represented by a single person. Theoretical concepts suggest how the voting systems in such committees should be designed, but … these abstract rules can usually not be implemented perfectly. To find voting systems that approximate these rules the so …

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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting

Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015 - Revised version, April 2015

ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …

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Fair apportionment in the view of the Venice Commission's recommendation

Biró, Péter; Kóczy, László Á.; Sziklai, Balázs - 2013

In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …

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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots

Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013

In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal … 1971, and the other shortly thereafter. I estimate the impact of introducing female voting on the difference in acceptance … population. I provide additional evidence from post-ballot surveys after similar ballots to overcome potential strategic voting …

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Choosing voting systems behind the veil of Ignorance : a two-tier voting experiment

Weber, Matthias - 2014

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group … represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting … the choice of voting systems based on such theoretical concepts, in this paper, I ask which systems individuals actually …

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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots ; conference paper

Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013 - Work in progress

experiment from Switzerland, I test this hypothesis empirically. I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar referendum … are conducted for voters and non-voters and confirm that the results extend to the non-voting population. My results …

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The political economics of higher education finance for mobile individuals : conference paper

Borck, Rainald; Übelmesser, Silke; Wimbersky, Martin - 2013

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets …

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On a class of threshold public goods games : with applications to voting and the Kyoto Protocol

Bolle, Friedel - 2014

the launch of the project. Examples are the Kyoto protocol, voting with different weights (shareholders, the UN with the …

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