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Voting Blocs, Party Discipline and Party Formation

Eguia, Jon X. - 2010

In this paper I study the strategic implications of coalition formation in an assembly. A coalition forms a voting bloc to coordinate the voting behavior of its members, acting as a single player and affecting the policy outcome. In a game of endogenous coalition formation, I show that voting...

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Redistribution, Pork and Elections

Huber, John; Ting, Michael M. - 2009

the tension between redistribution and patronage with a model that combines partisan elections across multiple districts …

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Who Represents Whom? Strategic Voting and Conservatism in Legislative Elections

Klumpp, Tilman - 2005

This paper examines voting equilibria in a citizen-candidate model of indirect democracy. Voters are partitioned into constituencies and elect representatives into a legislative assembly to bargain over policy. In the bargaining phase, representatives both make policy proposals and vote on each...

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Public Persuasion in Elections : Single-Crossing Property and the Optimality of Censorship

Sun, Junze; Schram, Arthur J. H. C.; Sloof, Randolph - 2022

We study public persuasion in elections, in which a monopoly designer or multiple competing designers attempt to … influence the election outcome by manipulating public information about a payoff relevant state. We allow for a wide class of … elections under both monopolistic and competitive persuasion. The single-crossing property is (i) generically satisfied when …

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Re-Examining Voter Turnout in Large Elections

Taylor, Curtis R.; Yildirim, Huseyin - 2009

A well-known shortcoming of rational voter models is that the equilibrium probability that an individual votes converges to zero as the population of citizens tends to infinity. We show that this does not - as is often suggested - imply that equilibrium voter turnout is insignificant in the...

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Fear to Vote : Explosions, Salience, and Elections

Vargas, Juan F.; Purroy, Miguel E.; Coy, Felipe; … - 2023

Criminal groups use violence strategically to manipulate the behavior of victims and bystanders. At the same time, violence is a stimulus that causes fear, which also shapes people’s reactions. Taking advantage of the randomness in the timing of antipersonnel landmine accidents in Colombia, as...

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Redistributive politics and market efficiency : an experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto - 2009

equilibrium predictions. -- Redistribution ; double auction ; elections ; lobbying … elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory … in two-candidate elections. In addition, in one of the treatments subjects can attempt to influence the candidates …

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Interest Groups, Partisan Politics, and Environmental Polarization

Lueck, Dean; Ramos Pastrana, Julio Alberto; Torrens, Gustavo - 2022

This paper studies the mechanisms behind party polarization in the US Congress. The model generates a link between the initial composition of the parties, the behavior of new interest groups and the pattern and level of polarization along the new policy dimension (e.g., environment). Our...

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Policy diffusion, lobbying and the taxation of emissions

Michaelis, Peter (contributor); Ziesemer, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

endogenous probability of policy diffusion by combining our model with a strategic lobbying approach. As a result, the … rate the domestic government has to account for the foreign firm’s lobbying activities otherwise it will choose a tax rate …

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International environmental policies and environmental lobbying in the presence of eco-industry

Maezuru, Masakazu - 2012

demonstrating that environmentalists can be favourable to a decrease in the local environmental policy. The impact of lobbying …

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