Search Results - subject:"Ballot"

Why do so many people not vote? : correlates of participation in trade union strike ballots

Bessa, Ioulia; Hodder, Andy; Kelly, John E. - 2025

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Are teams conditionally cooperative? : experimental evidence from a public goods game

Xu, Chenyang; Li, Tongzhe - In: Economics letters 239 (2024), pp. 1-7

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The Puzzling Practice of Paying "Cash for Votes"

Murugesan, Anand; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2023

The expression "cash-for-votes" describes a form of vote buying in which candidates for office pay individuals in exchange for their votes. That practice undermines the functioning of democracy but is pervasive in many parts of the world, especially in the Global South. We discuss estimates of...

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The puzzling practice of paying "cash for votes"

Murugesan, Anand; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2023

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Flis, Jarosław; Kaminski, Marek - In: Public choice 190 (2022) 3/4, pp. 345-363

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Do Voters Choose Better Politicians than Political Parties? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Italy

Alfano, Maria Rosaria; Baraldi, Anna Laura; Papagni, Erasmo - 2020

This work analyses the effect of the two preference voting systems – proportional system with blocked lists of candidates vs proportional system with open list of candidates - on the quality of politicians. The exogenous variation in the Italian Parliament electoral system (Law n. 270/2005) -...

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Do voters choose better politicians than political parties? : evidence from a natural experiment in Italy

Alfano, Maria Rosaria; Baraldi, Anna Laura; Papagni, Erasmo - 2020

This work analyses the effect of the two preference voting systems - proportional system with blocked lists of candidates vs proportional system with open list of candidates - on the quality of politicians. The exogenous variation in the Italian Parliament electoral system (Law n. 270/2005) -...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317702

Media, secret ballot and democratization in the US

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Riaño, Juan Felipe; Song, B. K. - 2020

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Overstrained Citizens? The Number of Ballot Propositions and the Quality of the Decision Process in Direct Democracy

Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N. - 2019

We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected … concurrent cantonal propositions on the ballot. Across other outcomes we find no consistent indications that â€“ for the observed … federal direct democracy. In the medium to longer term, more federal propositions on the ballot rather relate to higher …

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Expertise and Independence on Governing Boards: Evidence from School Districts

Shi, Ying; Singleton, John D. - 2019

empirical strategy is that ballot order effects generate quasi-random variation in the elected school board's composition. This …

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