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This paper analyzes a recent ballot in which two virtually identical popular initiatives, both demanding a decrease in the legal age of retirement in Switzerland, led to differences in approval rates of nearly seven percentage points. Based on this unique natural experiment, the existence of...
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We suggest a probabilistic voting model where voters' preferences for alternative public goods display habit formation …
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The paper examines the relation between political participation and the size of regions taking German counties as observational units. The paper makes several contributions to the literature. To begin with, we measure political participation along two dimensions namely voter turnout, which is...
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In this paper we propose minority voting as a scheme that can partially protect individuals from the risk of repeated …-lasting impact. In the first period a simple open majority voting scheme takes place. Voting splits the committee into three groups …: voting winners, voting losers, and absentees. Under minority voting only voting losers keep the voting right in the second …
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At borders where rich and poor countries meet, services prices differ hugely. In principle, price differentials could be exploited to mutual benefit, offering improved job opportunities to the poor as well as better shopping opportunities to the rich. However, cross-border shopping is often...
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(Regional and Upper-local), as well as data of municipal voting behaviour at three electoral contests held at the different …
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We introduce a framework of electoral competition in which voters have general preferences over candidates' characteristics and policies. Candidates' immutable characteristics (such as gender, race or previously committed policy positions) are exogenously differentiated, while candidates can...
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influences the succeeding education policy. More surprisingly, the prospect of voting on education policy also affects the … the two-dimensional heterogeneity of the citizens shapes the voting equilibrium in our setting with sequential voting. …
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, because voting may facilitate coordination due to signaling and commitment effects. We find that voting does have signaling …
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We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income …
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