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Democracy and compliance in public goods games
Gallier, Carlo - 2017
contribution rule under democracy is driven by self-selection of treatments, information transmitted via the outcome of the … referendum, and democracy per se. In case treatments are endogenously chosen via a democratic decision-making process, the …
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Democracy and Compliance in Public Goods Games
Gallier, Carlo - 2020
contribution rule under democracy is driven by self-selection of treatments, information transmitted via the outcome of the … referendum, and democracy per se. In case treatments are endogenously chosen via a democratic decision-making process, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853577
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Experimentation in Democratic Mechanisms
Britz, Volker - 2014
an experimentation group. Those mechanisms reflect the principles of liberal democracy, are prior-free, and involve a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050880
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Democracy and international conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016
During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...
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Reelection threshold contracts in politics
Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - 2001
When politicians are provided with insufficient incentives by the democratic election mechanism, we show that social welfare can be improved by threshold contracts. A threshold incentive contract stipulates a performance level which a politican must reach in order to have the right to stand for...
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Democracy and governance
Pelizzo, Riccardo - 2018
The purpose of the paper is to show that the nature of the relationship between governance and democracy varies … distinctive features of the other we find that governance and democracy are not just mutually reinforcing but even overlapping …, that only when we distinguish on theoretical ground governance from democracy we create the basis for analyzing their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817112
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Party system change and the quality of democracy in East Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Nwokora, Zim - 2017
qualities. In doing so, we do not simply assess whether, how and to what extent qualities of democracy in East Africa are … qualities of democracy, we find that while the frequency of change has a beneficial impact on the qualities of democracy, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011759235
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On the Possibility of Democracy and Rational Collective Choice
Hillinger, Claude - 2004
The paper challenges the 'orthodox doctrine' of collective choice theory according to which Arrow's 'general possibility theorem' precludes rational decision procedures generally and implies that in particular all voting procedures must be flawed. I point out that all voting procedures are...
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Winning Coalitions in Plurality Voting Democracies
van den Brink, Rene; Dimitrov, Dinko; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - 2019
We study the issue of assigning weights to players that identify winning coalitions in plurality voting democracies. For this, we consider plurality games which are simple games in partition function form such that in every partition there is at least one winning coalition. Such a game is said...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014104553
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Incentive contracts for politicians and the information efficiency of a democracy
Liessem, Verena - 2003
A campaign model in which candidates can make law announcements for reforms in the next term will be considered. Acquiring information about these laws incurs the candidates a certain cost. The conditions under which a candidate acquires information about a given law during the campaign will be...
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