In the fields of social choice, public choice and political economics, the main difference between private and political choice is whether individual preferences are aggregated to make a decision. A much less studied difference is whether beliefs are aggregated to make a decision. In this paper,...

In this article, we analyse initiatives organized by groups outside of formal politics that involve political confrontation with elected officials, and the need for recourse to the courts. We show that a civic initiative submitted by a proposer gives the voter not only the option to constrain...

This article provides the first comparison of public sector efficiency in and beyond transition. We compare the comprehensive efficiency scores of 202 local governments in the Czech Republic in the transition period of 1995-1998 and the post-transition period of 2005-2008 and identify the...

We model `money buys access' informational lobbying as a commitment from the policy-maker to observe a lobby's verifiable evidence only upon receiving an access fee. We specifically examine the policy-maker's optimal access fees in the presence of two strictly competing lobbies. Our novel method...

We study a game in which a sender with verifiable private information has to pay an access fee that is announced by a receiver to be able to convey her message to the receiver. The setting is motivated by the literature of pay-and-lobby politics, which finds that politicians decide to schedule...

The Anglo-American double-member districts employing plurality-at-large are frequently criticized for giving a large majority premium to a winning party, since the large premium may decrease proportionality of the elected assembly relative to single-member districts. We demonstrate that the...

Soudobá ekonomie oèima tøí generací pøedních akademických pøedstavitelù pùsobících na Institutu ekonomických studií shrnuje pøíspìvky z konference 20 let poté, konané pøi pøíležitosti 20. výroèí vzniku Institutu 18. øíjna 2010. Sborník pøedstavuje tematicky...

This paper builds spatial microfoundations for the functional forms used in the analysis of inter-jurisdictional public spending spillovers. The paper introduces a symmetric bilateral model that distinguishes between three stages: production of multiple public inputs (intermediary goods),...

The Anglo-American double-member districts employing plurality-at-large are frequently criticized for giving a large majority premium to a winning party. In this paper, we demonstrate that the premium stems from a limited degree of voters' discrimination associated with only two positive votes...