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Costly Voting: Theoretical and Experimental Results on Commons Dilemmas in Spatial Committee Games

Wilson, Rick K.; Herzberg, Roberta; Elliott, Mark - 1993

experimental manipulations are implemented to test various aspects of this model. These experiments use five-person committees with …

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A Study to Determine the Effectiveness of Agriculture/Natural Resource Program Area Committees on the Texas AgriLife Extension Service Program Planning Process

Weems, Whit Holland - 2011

volunteers have been utilized in Extension for over 50 years, serving on program area committees to develop programs that meet … program area committees. However, 42 percent of the respondents disagreed or remained neutral to subject matter specialists … education as a motivational factor for serving on the Ag/NR committees. Committee members feel strongly about assisting with …

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Equilibrium Results in Committee Settings: Theory and Experiments on Decision Costs

Herzberg, Roberta; Wilson, Rick K. - 1987

"In this paper we formulate a cost-induced equilibrium concept. This equilibrium is generated from transaction costs connected with a sequential agenda process. Our claim is that most collective choice Institutions carry with them decision costs. If these transaction costs are very large, they...

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Essays on the Theory of Productive Government Activity and Economic Growth

Kühnel, Johanna - 2010

endogenously via a democratic voting process. The focus is on two public spending categories: productive government expenditure …

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A political economy perspective on persistent inequality, inflation, and redistribution

Lahiri, Radhika; Ratnasiri, Shyama - 2010

In this paper we examine the dynamics of the link between inequality and inflation from a political economy perspective. We consider a simple dynamic general equilibrium model in which agents vote over the desired inflation rate in each period, and inequality is persistent. Inflation in our...

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Endogenous Property Rights Regimes, Common Property Resources and Trade Policies

Galinato, Gregmar Ignacio - 2006

the use of their resource stock via a voting mechanism. Then, the impact of opening to trade is linked to the choice of …

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Women’s representation in politics : voter bias, party bias, and electoral systems

González Eiras, Martín; Sanz, Carlos

Estudiamos cómo afecta el sistema electoral a la presencia de mujeres en política usando un modelo en el que tanto los votantes como los partidos pueden tener un sesgo de género. Aplicamos el modelo a las elecciones municipales españolas, en las que, según la ley, los municipios utilizan...

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Enhancing expert system intelligentagents using game theory

Vineyard, Craig - 2009

An agent is generally defined as an entity capable of perceiving its environment and accomplishing a particular action without explicit instruction. Blindly taking directives without thinking is typically not intelligent, so rather a software agent is deemed intelligent if it may be...

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Robust coalition formation in a dynamic, contractless environment

Barber, K. Suzanne (contributor) - 2009

This dissertation focuses on robust coalition formation between selfish agents in a dynamic environment where contracts are unenforceable. Previous research on this topic has covered each different aspect of this problem, but no research successfully addresses these factors in combination....

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Issues in operations management and marketing interface research : competition, product line design, and channel coordination

Gilbert, Stephen M. (contributor); … - 2010

This dissertation studies important issues in supply chain management and marketing interface research: competition, product line design, and channel efficiency, at the presence of vertically differentiated products. Vertical differentiation as a means of price discrimination has been...

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