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Belief in a Just World and Redistributive Politics

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

this phenomenon for international differences in political ideology, levels of redistribution, labour supply, aggregate …

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Ideology

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

remain obstinately blind to them, embracing a statist ideology and voting for an excessively large government. Conversely, an …-faire ideology and blind faith in the invisible hand. With public-sector capital, this interplay of beliefs and institutions leads to …

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Signalling, Incumbency Advantage, and Optimal Reelection Thresholds

Caselli, Francesco; Cunningham, Tom; Morelli, Massimo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

types to voters. We identify two novel implications of models in which signalling incentives are important. First, because …. Second, voters can exploit the signalling behavior of politicians by precommitting to a higher threshold for signals received …. Raising the threshold discourages signalling effort by low quality politicians but encourages effort by high quality …

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Why Vote for Losers?

Castanheira, Micael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Voting Theory generally concludes that, in first-past-the-post elections, all votes should go to effective candidates (Duverger’s Law), and parties should adopt a similar platform (Median Voter Theorem). Such predictions are not always met in practice, however. We show why divergence and vote...

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The Swing Voter's Curse in the Laboratory

Battaglini, Marco; Morton, Rebecca; Palfrey, Thomas R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper reports the first laboratory study of the swing voter’s curse and provides insights on the larger theoretical and empirical literature on 'pivotal voter' models. Our experiment controls for different information levels of voters, as well as the size of the electorate, the...

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Anatomy of Voting Behaviour and Attitudes During Post-Communist Transition Czech Republic 1990-98

Doyle, Orla; Fidrmuc, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

How does implementing harsh economic reforms influence voting behaviour? And how do the patterns of political support change over the course of transition? We analyse these issues using data from a sequence of 11 opinion surveys conducted in the Czech Republic between 1990-98. We find that -...

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Tax Contracts and Government Formation

Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We introduce tax contracts and examine how they affect government formation and welfare of voters in a democracy with proportional elections. A tax contract specifies a range of tax rates a party is committed to if in government. We develop a new model of party competition in which parties...

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Redistributive Politics with Distortionary Taxation

Crutzen, Benoît SY; Sahuguet, Nicolas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We extend the discussion of redistributive politics across electoral systems to allow for taxation to be distortionary. We allow politicians to choose any tax rate between zero and unity and then redistribute the money collected. We build on the model put forward by Myerson (1993) and Lizzeri...

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Decentralization and Electoral Accountability: Incentives, Separation and Voter Welfare

Hindricks, Jean; Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper studies the relationship between fiscal decentralization and electoral accountability, by analysing how decentralization impacts upon incentive and selection effects, and thus on voter welfare. The model abstracts from features such as public good spillovers or economies of scale, so...

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A Protectionist Bias in Majoritarian Politics

Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We develop a novel model of campaigns, elections, and policymaking in which the ex ante objectives of national party leaders differ from the ex post objectives of elected legislators. This generates a distinction between "policy rhetoric" and "policy reality" and introduces an important role for...

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