Showing 1 - 10 of 127
Brennan and Hamlin (2002) note that expressive voting still holds at the constitutional phase. The argument, when taken … Buchanan induce expressive voting at the constitutional phase, removing the normative benefits ascribed to the hypothetical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076626
lie to the survey takers and claim that they did. Increases in education are associated with higher voting rates and lower … rates of lying overall, but with increased rates of lying conditional on not voting. This paper proposes a model of voter … has a stable equilibrium with positive rates of voting, honest non-voting, and lying. Reasonable parameter changes produce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412467
of support E gives to H. Third, I address the implications for the definition of special majority voting, a procedure … special majority voting in terms of a required proportion of the jury is epistemically questionable, and that the classical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560962
I analyze simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education using a model with three … benefits. I derive the results both for a once-and-for-all voting system with commitment and for repeated voting. My model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125919
We develop a definition of equilibrium for agenda formation in general voting settings. The definition is independent … of any protocol. We show that the set of equilibrium outcomes for any Pareto efficient voting rule is uniquely determined …, and in fact coincides with that of the outcomes generated by considering all full agendas. Under voting by successive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135124
The paper empirically investigates whether people's attitude towards the progress in political transformation in Eastern Europe are influenced by economic factors. Thereby it addresses the question of independence between economic and political system. Using a large panel data set, containing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556101
Corruption scandals seem to abound in countries that have recently undergone reform. Despite the proliferation of stories in the news media, no one has examined whether reform—be it democratization or economic liberalization or both—actually causes an increase in corruption. Theory provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125949
We study the value of commitment in contests and tournaments when there are costs for the follower to observe the leader's behavior. In a contest, the follower can pay to observe the leader's effort but cannot observe the effectiveness of that effort. In a tournament, the follower can pay to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408421
In order to analyze conflict and cooperation between a State and a non ruling group in a general equilibrium, I unite pure rent-seeking models and economic models of conflict under an assumption of incomplete property rights. I show that a unique and globally stable Nash equilibrium exists in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556945
This work is a contribution to the Second Generation Theory (SGT) of fiscal federalism that studies fiscal federalism through contemporary economic and industrial organization theory. First, it establishes context by introducing the two classic motivations in support of federalism, namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556973