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

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 …

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. …

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 …

the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …

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 …

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 …

benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and …

We compiled data on all United Nations General Assembly resolutions on which voting took place between January 1990 and … model of behavioral political economy that includes decoy voting, vanity of autocrats, and a Schelling focal point for …