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Chapter 9 Representative democracy as social choice

Schofield, Norman - In: Handbook of social choice and welfare : volume 1, (pp. 425-455). 2002

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Public funding of parties and political polarization

Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

This work analyzes the impact of asymmetric financial constraints on the platforms of parties, using a formal model of elections. The main results show that when a party faces a tight financial constraint, the platform chosen in equilibrium is further away from its ideal point compared with the...

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Vote buying in the US Congress

Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019

We assess the influence of moneyed interests on legislative decisions. Our theory predicts that the vote outcome distribution and donation flows in a legislature feature a discontinuity at the approval threshold of bills if special interest groups are involved in vote buying. Testing the...

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Vote buying in the US Congress

Matter, Ulrich; Roberti, Paolo; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2019

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Television market size and political accountability in the US house of representatives

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2022

This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to report relatively more per US House representative in less populous markets (where the number of...

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Distributional consequences of political representation : conference paper

Maaser, Nicola; Stratmann, Thomas - 2014

We investigate the geographical concentration of representatives and the distribution of fiscal transfers both theoretically and empirically. We develop a model which predicts that funds to an area are positively correlated with the number of representatives residing in that area. Our empirical...

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Local candidates and distributive politics under closed-list proportional representation

Fiva, Jon H.; Halse, Askill Harkjerr; Smith, Daniel M. - 2018

Geographic representation is an important consideration in candidate nominations, even under closed-list proportional … representation (PR), and may even matter for distributive policy outcomes. However, since nominations are determined strategically …, the causal effects of local representation are difficult to identify. We investigate the relationship between local …

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Elections and Campaign Contributions

Gersbach, Hans - 2001

We examine a model of campaigns in which contributors support candidates who choose political platforms and engage in costly campaigning. Interest groups decide to whom and how much to contribute. We show that donors may financially support one candidate in order to moderate his opponent's...

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Microtargeting, Divisive Campaigns and the Rise in Voter Polarization

Magnani, Marco - 2022

This paper studies the effects of interactions between campaign spending and ideology on voter polarization. In a setting where microtargeting of advertisements is prevalent, we consider how differences in the resources available to the parties competing in an election, affect the campaign and...

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Informative Campaigning in Multidimensional Politics : A Role of Naïve Voters

Kasamatsu, Satoshi - 2017

We construct a model in which an incumbent and a challenger decide whether to focus on policy or ability in electoral campaigning, and a media outlet then decides whether to gather news. We show that a candidate's strategy on which issue to focus on (i.e., campaign messages) can be a signal...

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