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Pocketbook voting and social preferences in referenda
Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - 2015
-interest, providing strong evidence for pocketbook voting. However, social preferences like altruism, public good considerations and … allows quantifying monetary benefits associated with each ticket. We find that turnout is much higher among students who … benefit a lot from having a ticket, suggesting instrumental voting. In each referendum, a majority votes in line with self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496966
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Incentives dominate selection : chamber-changing legislators are driven by electoral rules and voter preferences
Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2019
The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286323
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The effect of handicaps on turnout for large electorates : an application to assessment voting
Gersbach, Hans; Mamageishvili, Akaki; Tejada, Oriol - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182160
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Focused power : experiments, the Shapley-Shubik power index, and focal points
Geller, Chris R.; Mustard, Jamie; Shahwan, Ranya - 2013
values. The SSPI can serve as a control for power imbedded in voting blocs, permitting fuller analysis of other factors that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009789971
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A case for standard theory?
Kuzmics, Christoph; Rodenburger, Daniel - 2015
Using data from an experiment by Forsythe, Myerson, Rietz, and Weber (1993), designed for a different purpose, we test the "standard theory" that players have preferences only over their own mentary payoffs and that play will be in (evolutionary stable) equilibrium. In the experiment each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011284229
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Altruistic punishment in elections
Aimone, Jason A.; Butera, Luigi; Stratmann, Thomas - 2014
between two potential policy outcomes of an election participate in large-scale elections when voting is costly? Using a … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent … simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393636
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Mechanisms for efficient voting with private information about preferences
Engelmann, Dirk; Grimm, Veronika - 2008
We experimentally study behavior in a simple voting game where players have private information about their preferences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003894591
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Guilt aversion and redistributive politics : a moral intuitionist approach
Le Garrec, Gilles - 2013
synthesis" in moral psychology (Haidt, 2007: The new synthesis in moral psychology) the author proposes to modelize the voting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010188955
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Mind the framing when studying social preferences in the domain of losses
Antinyan, Armenak; Corazzini, Luca; Fišar, Miloš; … - 2022
framing on altruism. The main methodological result is that the dictators' prosocial behaviour is sensitive to the loss frame …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433309
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Rotten spouses, family transfers and public goods
Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2014
We show that once interfamily exchanges are considered, Becker's rotten kids mechanism has some remarkable implications that have gone hitherto unnoticed. Specifically, we establish that Cornes and Silva's (1999) result of efficiency in the contribution game amongst siblings extends to a setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252137