We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior … change in voting behavior and we find no effects on aggregate electoral outcomes …

the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. Nevertheless, voting is generally an … voting mechanisms. The paper derives the conditions under which the optimal decision rule is equivalent to some well …-known voting procedure (weighted supermajority, weighted majority, and simple majority) and shows that these are very stringent …

therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations …

We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study … administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a reduction in ethnic voting when administrative regions become less …

determining her vote - both relative to her choices on other cases and relative to other justices voting on the same case. We … develop and empirically assess a model of voting in which judges trade off expressive and instrumental concerns. The evidence …

, discuss the difficulties with dynamic voting procedures and review some ways to overcome them. We conclude by highlighting the …