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Assessment voting in large electorates
Gersbach, Hans; Mamageishvili, Akaki; Tejada, Oriol - 2017 - This version: December 2017
We analyze Assessment Voting, a new two-round voting procedure that can be applied to binary decisions in democratic … a costly voting framework, we show that large electorates will choose the preferred alternative of the majority with … high probability, and that average costs will be low. This result is in contrast with the literature on one-round voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787214
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Democracy undone. Systematic minority advantage in competitive vote markets
Casella, Alessandra; Turban, Sébastien - In: Games and Economic Behavior 88 (2014) C, pp. 47-70
We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where the choice is binary and it is known that a majority of the voters supports one of the two alternatives. Voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. We identify a sufficient condition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011117141
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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets
Casella, Alessandra; Turban, Sébastien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We study the competitive equilibrium of a market for votes where voters can trade votes for a numeraire before making a decision via majority rule. The choice is binary and the number of supporters of either alternative is known. We identify a sufficient condition guaranteeing the existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084259
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The Power of Religious Organizations in Human Decision Processes: Analyzing Voting Behavior
Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2013
Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to …'s recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328867
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The Power of Religious Organizations in Human Decision Processes: Analyzing Voting Behavior
Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2013
Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to …'s recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168428
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Income and policy choices: Evidence from parliamentary decisions and referenda
Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2014
We analyze political representation of preferences of different income groups by matching referendum outcomes for low, middle, and high-income voters with individual legislators' decisions on identical policy proposals. Results indicate that legislators more closely represent preferences of rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168449
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The power of religious organizations in human decision processes : analyzing voting behavior
Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2013
Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to … recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223454
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The power of religious organizations in human decision processes : analyzing voting behavior ; conference paper
Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2014
Churches (FPC) make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly … recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487277
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The Power of Religious Organizations in Human Decision Processes: Analyzing Voting Behavior
Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - CESifo - 2013
Churches (FPC) – make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to …’s recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723526
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The Power of Religious Organizations in Human Decision Processes: Analyzing Voting Behavior
Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2013
Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to …'s recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010763997