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Majority vote on educational standards : conference paper

Schwager, Robert - 2013 - First draft

The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...

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Majority Runoff Elections : Strategic Voting and Duverger's Hypothesis

Bouton, Laurent - 2013

The majority runoff system is widely used around the world. Yet, our understanding of its properties and of voters' behavior is limited. In this paper, we fully characterize the set of strictly perfect voting equilibria in large three-candidate majority runoff elections. Considering all possible...

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What are the best quorum rules? : A laboratory investigation

Aguiar-Conraria, Luís; Magalhães, Pedro C.; Vanberg, … - 2019

Many political systems with direct democracy mechanisms have adopted rules preventing decisions from being made by simple majority rule. The device most commonly added to majority rule in national is a quorum requirement. The two most common are the participation and the approval quora. Such...

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Local candidates and distributive politics under closed-list proportional representation

Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill H.; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018

Geographic representation is an important consideration in candidate nominations, even under closed-list proportional representation (PR), and may even matter for distributive policy outcomes. However, since nominations are determined strategically, the causal effects of local representation are...

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Majority vote on educational standards

Schwager, Robert - 2018

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Einfache Vermeidung von Stimmverlusten durch Prozent-Hürden

Dilger, Alexander - 2021

Prozent-Hürden führen normalerweise dazu, dass Stimmen verfallen, was der Gleichheit der Wahl widerspricht und die Chancen kleinerer sowie neuer Parteien mindert. Es gibt mehrere mögliche Auswege, z. B. durch Präferenzwahl. Noch einfacher ist es, wenn jede Partei angibt, an welche andere...

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Voting and the cardinal aggregation of judgments

Hillinger, Claude - 2004

theory are either context dependent or subject to unreasonable restrictions. This is the real source of the diverse … "paradoxes of voting" that would better be termed "voting pathologies". The theory leads me to advocate what I term evaluative …

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Electoral Competition under Best-Worst Voting Rules

Cahan, Dodge - 2016

We characterise multi-candidate pure-strategy equilibria in the Hotelling-Downs spatial election model for the class of best-worst voting rules, in which each voter is endowed with both a positive and a negative vote, i.e., each voter can vote in favour of one candidate and against another one....

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Voting Paradoxes under Proportional Representation : Evidence from Eight Danish Elections

Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - 2008

We analyze voter preferences for eight General Elections for the Danish parliament by using survey data to investigate the possible presence of five types of social choice paradoxes that may occur in list systems of proportional representation. Two serious paradoxes fail to manifest themselves,...

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Laboratory Elections with Endogenous Turnout : Proportional Representation versus Majoritarian Rule

Kartal, Melis - 2014

representation using theory and experiments. Numerous empirical studies have compared turnout across PR and MR. However, the … the size of the minority, but the empirical papers on the topic do not control for it. I also show that, in both theory … theory predicts. I conjecture that, under PR, there is a discouragement effect for the small minority because the PR system …

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