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The appointment of a “technical government” in Italy in 2011 raised many criticism, mostly related to its lack of democratic legitimacy. The peculiar nature of this government has been justified with the risk of default of Italy which the “normal” political processes were assumed unable...
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Economic voting theory is one of the most powerful explanations of voting behavior of ordinary citizens and it’s almost a part of democratic practice. This approach is heavily used in the Turkish context and models based on this model are very successful in estimating election results....
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There is ample evidence for a “democracy premium”. Laws that have been implemented via election lead to a more cooperative behavior compared to a top-down approach. This has been observed using field data and laboratory experiments. We present evidence from Chinese students and workers who...
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Az írás a kontraszelekció és az erkölcsi kockázat információ-gazdaságtani fogalmának politikatudományi alkalmazhatósága mellett érvel. Azt kívánja bemutatni, hogy a politikai piac szereplői közti információs aszimmetria mechanizmusainak éppúgy lehetnek súlyos negatív...
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Az abszolút többség eljárási elvére épülő szavazási játékok egy része lehetővé teszi, hogy a játékosok stratégiai viselkedésükkel ellensúlyozzák az ügyrend hatását. A tanulmány a Közép-Európai Egyetemen végzett bizottsági döntési kísérletek eredményeit...
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A hagyományos szavazási játékok speciális átruházható hasznosságú, kooperatív játékok, úgynevezett egyszerű játékok, ahol a játékosok a pártok, és az egyes koalíciók értéke 1 vagy 0 attól függően, hogy az adott koalíció elég erős-e az adott jogszabály...
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This paper examines the impact of social heterogeneity on in-kind redistribution. We contribute to the previous literature in two ways: we consider i) the provision of several public goods and ii) agents different not only in income, but also in their preferences over the various goods provided...
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This short paper analyzes whether a federal transfer system can be designed to increase welfare, when state governments create political budget cycles to increase the likelihood of reelection. The results show how the federal government may announce a transfer scheme in advance for the...
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We estimate the effect of state judiciary presence on rent extraction in Brazilian local governments. We measure rents as irregularities related to waste or corruption uncovered by auditors. Our unique dataset at the level of individual inspections allows us to separately examine extensive and...
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We provide characterizations of the set of outcomes that can be achieved by agenda manipulation for two prominent sequential voting procedures, the amendment and the successive procedure. Tournaments and super-majority voting with arbitrary quota q are special cases of the general sequential...
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