We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency … affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While …-consuming screening of online videos. In 2014, halfway through the legislative period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. Since …

recommendations. We find that voting recommendations do indeed matter, implying that even in a secularized world, religion plays a … crucial role in voting decisions. …

therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties …Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of … differences. Results hold for elections of the national and EU parliament and for different areas within Poland. Surprisingly, we …

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 …

of the majority for the incumbent in the previous election was a strong predictor for supporting same-sex marriage. When … the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by … around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election-motivated - even when submitting roll-call votes on …

For about 45 years, vote and popularity functions have been estimated for many countries indicating that voting … countries and time periods. In papers, retrospective sociotropic voting dominates. However, the evidence is not so univocal; it … rather tells that voting has egotropic as well as sociotropic aspects, and it is prospective as well as retrospective. It is …

of group decisiveness into voting incentives and mobilization of voters. In the elections that we study, for the same … points in local elections and decreased voter turnout by some 20 percentage points in national elections. We empirically …

probability before the election (Maskin and Tirole's "feedback" case). In the three-period case, with two elections, the dynamic … political agency setting. In the baseline two-period case where only the politician's actions are observable before the election … evolution of confirmation bias can lead to more pandering before the first election. Finally, we show that when confirmation …

organizations. We test this theory empirically by examining how the United States uses bilateral aid and IMF loans to buy other … countries’ votes in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). Introducing new data on voting behavior in the UNSC over the … 1960-2015 period, our results show that states allied with the US receive more bilateral aid when voting in line with the …

between two potential policy outcomes of an election participate in large-scale elections when voting is costly? Using a … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent … simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …