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Do Parties Punish MPs for Voting against the Party Line?
Kauder, Björn - 2017
positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953695
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Direct and Structural Discrimination in Contests
Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - CESifo - 2013
This paper evaluates direct and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the contestants’ prize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723527
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Equity and Effectiveness of Optimal Taxation in Contests under an All-Pay Auction
Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - CESifo - 2012
The means of contest design may include differential taxation of the prize. This paper establishes that, given a revenue-maximizing contest designer who faces a balanced-budget constraint, the optimal taxation scheme corresponding to an all-pay auction is appealing in two senses. First, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645631
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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - CESifo - 2012
This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies to the case of un-enforced or enforced party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595384
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Differential Prize Taxation and Structural Discrimination in Contests
Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - CESifo - 2012
This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551012
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Differential Prize Taxation and Structural Discrimination in Contests
Mealem, Yosef - 2012
This paper evaluates differential prize taxation and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105142
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Equity and Effectiveness of Optimal Taxation in Contests Under an All-Pay Auction
Mealem, Yosef - 2012
The means of contest design may include differential taxation of the prize. This paper establishes that, given a revenue-maximizing contest designer who faces a balanced-budget constraint, the optimal taxation scheme corresponding to an all-pay auction is appealing in two senses. First, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111823
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Direct and Structural Discrimination in Contests
Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2021
This paper evaluates direct and structural discrimination as a means of increasing efforts in the most widely studied contests. We establish that a designer who maximizes efforts subject to a balanced-budget constraint prefers dual discrimination, namely, change of the contestants’ prize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315663
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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuʾel - 2021
This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the expected policy outcome. Our analysis applies to the case of unenforced or enforced party...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315833
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - CESifo - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150636