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Redistricting and the Personal Vote : When Natural Experiments are Neither Natural nor Experiments

Sekhon, Jasjeet S.; Titiunik, Rocío - 2009

Natural experiments are increasingly prominent in the social sciences. However, natural experiments often have more in common with traditional observational studies than with randomized experiments. We illustrate our argument by examining the case of using redistricting to estimate the personal...

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Choosing Voting Systems Behind the Veil of Ignorance : A Two-Tier Voting Experiment

Weber, Matthias - 2017

There are many situations in which different groups make collective decisions by committee voting, with each group represented by a single person. A natural question is what voting system such a committee should use. Concepts based on voting power provide guidelines for this choice. The two most...

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Sincere Voting, Strategic Voting a Laboratory Experiment Using Alternative Proportional Systems

Lebon, Isabelle - 2018

In two laboratory surveys run in France during the 2014 European Elections, we asked the participants to provide their personal evaluations of the parties in terms of ideological proximity, and asked how they would vote under three proportional, closed-list voting rules: the (official)...

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Choosing voting systems behind the veil of Ignorance : a two-tier voting experiment

Weber, Matthias - 2014

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Please Don’t Vote for Me : Voting in a Natural Experiment with Perverse Incentives

Spenkuch, Jörg L. - 2017

Whether individuals vote strategically is one of the most important questions at the intersection of economics and political science. Exploiting a aw in the German electoral system by which a party may gain seats by receiving fewer votes, this paper documents patterns of preference...

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Making Outsiders’ Votes Count : Detecting Electoral Fraud Through a Natural Experiment

Fukumoto, Kentaro; Horiuchi, Yusaku - 2014

Weak electoral registration requirements are commonly thought to encourage electoral participation, but may also promote electoral fraud. For one, candidates and their supporters can more easily mobilize voters outside the district to register and vote for the candidates, even though these...

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The Effect of Electoral Systems on Voter Turnout : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Sanz, Carlos - 2016

I exploit the unique institutional framework of Spanish local elections, where municipalities follow different electoral systems depending on their population size, as mandated by a national law. Using a regression discontinuity design, I compare turnout under closed-list proportional...

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A simultaneous analysis of turnout and voting under proportional representation : theory and experiments

Kamm, Aaron; Schram, Arthur - 2013

In a system of proportional representation, we study the interaction between a voter's turnout decision and her party choice, and how these relate to party polarization. Quantal response equilibria predict such interaction effects. In particular they predict (i) a Polarization Effect: reduced...

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Political motivations and electoral competition : equilibrium analysis and experimental evidence

Drouvelis, Michalis; Saporiti, Alejandro; Vriend, … - 2013

levels in all treatments, and the comparative statics effects across treatments are as predicted by the theory. …

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Laboratory Elections with Endogenous Turnout : Proportional Representation versus Majoritarian Rule

Kartal, Melis - 2014

representation using theory and experiments. Numerous empirical studies have compared turnout across PR and MR. However, the … the size of the minority, but the empirical papers on the topic do not control for it. I also show that, in both theory … theory predicts. I conjecture that, under PR, there is a discouragement effect for the small minority because the PR system …

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