home countries. The political preferences of migrants as manifested by their voting behavior are strikingly different from … those of their home-country counterparts. In addition, there are important differences in voting patterns across migrants … living in different countries. We examine three explanations of migrant voting behavior: adaptive learning; economic self …

candidate to win an election, even though his main agenda item (i.e., postal privatization) is strongly opposed by special …

On the night of November 8th 2016 Donald Trump won the US presidential election with 306 electoral votes (vs. 232 for … Hilary Clinton). Most notably, all of the numerous election forecasts failed to predict Trump's victory. It was preceded by … voting shares. The regression analyses show that a larger proportion of White Americans leads to an increasing share of votes …

. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly … basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting (prediction markets). We assess the efficacy … of each in light of the 2004 Australian election. This election is particularly interesting both because of innovations …

The paper presents a model where public pensions are determined by majority voting. Voters differ by age and income …

his paper surveys models of voting on redistribution. Under reasonable assumptions, the baseline model produces an …