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It’s the weather, stupid! Individual participation in collective May Day demonstrations

Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

We investigate the possible explanations of variations in aggregate levels of participation in large-scale political demonstrations. A simple public choice inspired model is applied to data derived from the annual May Day demonstrations of the Danish labour movement and socialist parties taking...

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Citizens or lobbies : who controls policy?

Roberti, Paolo - 2016

This paper analyses a model of electoral competition with lobbying, where candidates hold private information about their willingness to pander to lobbies, if elected. I show that this uncertainty induces risk-averse voters to choose candidates who implement policies biased in favor of the...

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What Explains Cities' Climate Policy - Making? A Review of Drivers and Barriers

Sippel, Maike; Jenssen, Till - In: Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism I (2010) 1, pp. 39-56

A large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas. Therefore, local mitigation policies have to play an important role in any effective global climate protection strategy. Based upon a literature review, this article gives an overview of drivers and barriers for local...

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What About Local Climate Governance? A Review of Promise and Problems

Sippel, Maike; Jenssen, Till - 2009

A large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas, particularly in high income countries. Cities are also vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and particularly so in developing countries. Therefore, local climate policies for mitigation and adaptation have to play...

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Uniformity Requirement and Political Accountability

Wrede, Matthias - 2006

This paper discusses the fundamental hypothesis of policy uniformity under centralized decision making, which underlies … the main disadvantage of centralization but, according to the analysis undertaken in this paper, centralization without …

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Local agency costs of political centralization

Myerson, Roger B. - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 16 (2021) 2, pp. 425-448

We analyze a model of moral hazard in local public services which could be efficiently managed by officials under local democratic accountability, but not by officials who are appointed by the ruler of a centralized autocracy. The ruler might prefer to retain an official who diverted resources...

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Using Cheap Talk to Polarize or Unify a Group of Decision Makers

Jeong, Daeyoung - 2017

group of people who make a decision by voting on a proposal. An outside expert who observes the qualities of a proposal … sends a cheap talk message to decision makers with limited information. A simple cheap talk strategy of the expert can be … surprisingly effective in persuading decision makers by polarizing or unifying their opinions. When there is a significant …

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Using Cheap Talk to Polarize or Unify a Group of Decision Makers

Jeong, Daeyoung - 2019

We develop a model of strategic information transmission from an expert with informational superiority to decision … persuading decision makers by polarizing or unifying their opinions. After observing the expert's cheap talk message, decision … her own bias. In other words, the expert's cheap talk prevents a voting procedure from aggregating decision makers …

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Lobbying Externalities and Competition

Neretina, Ekaterina - 2019

I show that lobbying generates negative externalities, which affect non-lobbying companies. When a piece of new …

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Why does centralisation fail to internalise policy externalities?

Dur, Robert A. J.; Roelfsema, Hein J. - 2002

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