Search Results - subject:"Voting Behavior"

Regional deprivation and populism : evidence from Germany and the U.S.

Bayerlein, Michael - 2022

A widely held view is that increasing globalisation and inequality are fostering support for populist actors. Surprisingly, when focusing on Germany and the U.S., populist voting is highest in less globalised regions with rather equal income distributions. Addressing this puzzle, I ask how the...

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Radial symmetry does not preclude condorcet cycles if different voters weight the issues differently

Potthoff, Richard F. - In: Economies : open access journal 10 (2022) 7, pp. 1-17

Radial symmetry, by our definition, is a precise condition on continuous ideal-point distributions, rarely if ever found exactly in practice, that is similar to the classical 1967 symmetry condition of Plott but pertains to an infinite electorate; the bivariate normal distribution provides an...

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Policy reforms and the amount of checks & balances

Gersbach, Hans; Tejada, Oriol; Wagner, Julia - 2022

We examine how democracies choose their amount of checks and balances (C&B). For this purpose, we consider a simple model of political competition with costly policy reforms. The cost of a marginal reform is determined endogenously at the constitutional phase-i.e. before policies are...

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Political Support, Cognitive Dissonance and Political Preferences

Artiga González, Tanja; Capozza, Francesco; Granic, … - 2022

Voters often express support for a candidate whose policy platforms differ from their ideal policy preferences. We argue that under these circumstance acts of expressing support can causally change voters’ policy preferences. We conceptualize our arguments in a theoretical model of policy...

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Reciprocity Versus Reelection

Dalmia, Prateik; Drazen, Allan; Ozbay, Erkut - 2022

We study how reelection concerns affect reciprocity by elected leaders to the voters who elected them. If showing kindness to past voters reduces the chances of reelection, will an elected leader reduce or eliminate such intrinsic reciprocity? We present a signalling model of candidate behavior,...

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Money in Political Campaigns and Modern Vote Dilution

Alexander, Mark C. - 2022

The current debate over campaign finance reform typically overlooks a compelling reason why such reform is important: equality of political participation. American representative democracy, the Constitution and its Amendments embrace the principle of equality of political participation....

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Bandwagons in Costly Elections : The Role of Loss Aversion

Leontiou, Anastasia; Manalis, Georgios; Xefteris, Dimitrios - 2022

The formal study of voluntary elections with costly participation predicts that the supporters of the underdog –i.e., of the candidate that is expected to lose– are less likely to abstain than the supporters of the expected winner (Palfrey and Rosenthal, 1985; Herrera et al., 2014). While some...

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Granddaughter and Voting for a Female Candidate

Yamamura, Eiji - 2022

This study examines the influence of grandchildren’s gender on grandparents’ voting behavior using independently …. However, having a daughter did not affect the parents’ voting behavior. Furthermore, having a son or a grandson did not … influence grandparents’ voting behavior.This implies that grandparents voted for their granddaughter’s future benefit because …

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Support for Ranked Choice Voting and Partisanship of Voters : Results from a National Survey Experiment

Kimball, David; Anthony, Joseph; Scott, Jamil; … - 2022

This paper presents the results from a national survey experiment that tests how voters evaluate alternative voting rules, like ranked choice voting (RCV). We examine data from the 2020 Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS), which allows for comparisons across racial groups. The...

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Ideological Spillovers Across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump's Presidential Election

Costa-Font, Joan; Ljunge, Martin - 2022

Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the effect of the unexpected election of a United States (US) president (Donald Trump on the 9th of...

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