Search Results - subject:"Compulsory voting"

Usher, Dan - 2011

several interpretations of the duty to vote, and there is a brief review of pros and cons of compulsory voting. …

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An Alternative Explanation of the Chance of Casting a Pivotal Vote

Usher, Dan - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2011

This paper is about a model of uncertainty in voting that allows for a schedule of people`s preferences for one party over another, that gives rise to a chance of casting a pivotal vote which is small but not, as often supposed, infinitesimal, that is not inconsistent with evidence about the...

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Compulsory voting and tax revenues

Mutascu, Mihai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Using a panel-model approach, this paper investigates the validity of the relationship between level of tax revenues and type of voting. The data-set covers the period 2000-2010, and includes 135 countries. The main finding points out that the assumed function is linear and the compulsory vote...

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What Exactly Is A Duty to Vote ?

Usher, Dan - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2011

A duty to vote may be interpreted narrowly as no more than an obligation to cast oneâ€™s ballot, supporting a party or candidate in oneâ€™s own interest exclusively or, if one so pleases, with some regard for the community as a whole. Alternatively, a duty to vote may be interpreted...

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Three Stories about the Chance of Casting a Pivotal Vote

Usher, Dan - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2011

People vote from self-interest or from a sense of duty. Voting from self-interest requires there to be some chance, however small, that one's vote swings the outcome of the election from the political party one opposes to the political party one favours. This paper is a discussion of three...

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The curse of uninformed voting : an experimental study

Großer, Jens; Seebauer, Michael - In: Games and economic behavior 97 (2016), pp. 205-226

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Does forced voting result in political polarization?

Leon, Fernanda Leite Lopez de; Rizzi, Renata - In: Public choice 166 (2016) 1/2, pp. 143-160

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The participation gap: Evidence from compulsory voting laws

Hangartner, Dominik; Schmid, Lukas - 2010

implications of these two branches of structural models by exploiting a unique variability in compulsory voting laws in Swiss … effects of the introduction of compulsory voting laws on turnout. Along with the arguably exogenous treatment allocation … lend support to the ethical voting models since citizens do react to compulsory voting laws only if it is enforced with a …

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Compulsory Voting and Public Finance

Hodler, Roland - 2010

Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to …. I find that compulsory voting, modeled as an increase in abstention costs, raises the share of poorly informed and … and taxes increase as well, while the effect on public goods provision is ambiguous. Compulsory voting may thus lead to …

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Duty, self-interest, and the chance of casting a pivotal vote

Usher, Dan - 2010

comparing the pros and cons of compulsory voting. …

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