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Corruption, Competition, and Contracts : A Model of Vote Buying

Várdy, Felix - 2006

In the presence of competing interest groups, this paper examines how the form of vote-buying contracts affects policy outcomes. We study contracts contingent upon individual votes, policy outcomes, and/or vote shares. Voters either care about their individual votes, or about the policy outcome....

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Pocketbook Voting, Social Preferences, and Expressive Motives in Referenda

Meya, Johannes - 2017

We develop and test a theory of voting and turnout decisions that integrates self-interest, social preferences, and …

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Multiwinner Approval Voting : An Apportionment Approach

Brams, Steven J. - 2017

We extend approval voting so as to elect multiple candidates, who may be either individuals or members of a political party, in rough proportion to their approval in the electorate. We analyze two divisor methods of apportionment, first proposed by Jefferson and Webster, that iteratively...

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Redistributive Politics with Target-Specific Beliefs

Fong, Christina M. - 2019

the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theory about support for redistribution in the presence of target …-specific beliefs about the causes of low and high incomes. Our theory predicts that target-specific beliefs about the poor matter most … welfare recipients supports our theory. We also find, in theory, the existence of a moral release equilibrium in which the …

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Manipulated News Model : Electoral Competition and Mass Media

Miura, Shintaro - 2018

This paper investigates the relationship between media manipulation, the strategic suppression of relevant information by mass media, and self-mediatization, the strategic exploitation of media coverage by candidates, in elections. In the model, a voter cannot directly observe the policies...

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Elections in Non-Democracies

Egorov, Georgy - 2018

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of a democratic system, but elections are common in other regimes as well. Such an election might be a pure farce, with the incumbents getting close to 100% of the vote. In other instances, incumbents allow opposition candidates to be on the ballot and...

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Approval Voting and Fixed Electorate with Dichotomous Preferences

Sato, Norihisa - 2018

We explore the possibility of axiomatic characterization of approval voting when the set of voters is fixed and each voter has a dichotomous preference over the alternatives. We first prove that if the set of alternatives is variable, a social choice rule is approval voting if and only if it...

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Conservative Politicians and Voting on Same-Sex Marriage

Kauder, Bjoern - 2017

We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in safe districts using new data based on a roll-call vote in the national German parliament. The results show that the margin of the majority for the incumbent in the previous...

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Testing Models of Distributive Politics Using Exit Polls to Measure Voter Preferences and Partisanship

Larcinese, Valentino - 2008

This paper tests various hypotheses about distributive politics by studying the distribution of federal spending across U.S. states over the period 1978-2002. We improve on previous work by using survey data to measure the share of voters in each state that are Democrats, Republicans, and...

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Political Parties : Insights from a Tri-Planar Model of Political Economy

Hebert, David J. - 2017

What is the place of political parties within a democratic system of political economy? Parties are often described as intermediaries that lubricate the political process by facilitating the matching of voter preferences with candidate positions. This line of analysis flows from a bi-planar...

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