We study democratic determination of industrial automation that displaces workers of certain skills. Workers receive institutionally fixed compensations from industrialists based on their employment status. We evaluate office-seeking vs. ideological politics across high- vs. low-skilled...

In an election over two policies, public mood swings whereby voters move ideologically towards a particular policy should never hurt its electoral performance. We find that this fundamental monotonicity property of preference aggregation cannot be guaranteed in the presence of a commercial...

We study a behaviorally heterogeneous society where public goods provision and access are local and selfish agents co-habit with Kantian counterparts. Contrary to standard public goods games over complete networks, Kantian imperatives are not necessarily beneficial when the underlying graph...

We study classist societies where the middle class fight over redistribution of public funds with the marginalized and over social policies with the elites. We show that such societies are often deprived of well-defined majoritarian preferences, underscoring the importance of the party system....

We study a networked society where public good provision and access are both local and where selfish agents co-habit with others who follow Kantian imperatives. We find that the locations of the Kantians in the network play a nuanced role in determining aggregate free-riding and material...

Can public mood swings that make all voters undergo an ideological shift towards a policy, hurt the electoral performance of that policy? The answer depends interestingly on the operations of an apolitical, viewership-maximizing dominant media. The media chooses news quality about fundamental...