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Electoral thresholds and political outcomes: Quasi-experimental evidence from a reform in Germany
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2013
In 2001, the state parliament of the German federal state of Hesse abolished a 5 percent legal electoral threshold for local elections. This reform had a stronger effect on municipalities with larger councils because implicit electoral thresholds decrease with council size. Exploiting...
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James M. Buchanan and the European public choice movement: What did we learn from him?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2013
In this note, three major areas of Buchanan's research are briefly described: (1) The ideas of Knut Wicksell on Buchanan's work, (2) constitutional economics and the veil of ignorance, and (3) the role of government and/or the power to tax. It is shown that these three areas had a major...
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Direct and Structural Discrimination in Contests
Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 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...
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Equity and effectiveness of optimal taxation in contests under an all-pay auction
Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 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...
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Differential prize taxation and structural discrimination in contests
Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 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/10010282059
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The efficacy and efforts of interest groups in post elections policy formation
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 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...
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The efficacy and efforts of interest groups in post elections policy formation
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitsan, Shemuel - 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/10010291379
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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting
Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015
ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …
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Symmetric and asymmetric committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 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/10010277358
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Symmetric and asymmetric committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - 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/10010278792