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Communication and voting in heterogeneous committees : an experimental study
Thordal-Le Quement, Mark; Marcin, Isabel - 2016
We study experimentally the effectiveness of communication in common value committees exhibiting publicly known heterogeneous biases. We test models assuming respectively self-interested and strategic-, joint payoff-maximizing- and cognitively heterogeneous agents. These predict varying degrees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444227
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Redistributive politics with target-specific beliefs
Fong, Christina M.; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019
the reasons for being poor. We develop and test a theo-ry about support for redistribution in the presence of target …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993478
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083850
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Epper, Thomas - 2020
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the … redistribution in a broad sample of the Swiss population. Based on a recently developed non-parametric clustering procedure, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842932
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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Sennt, Julien - 2021 - Revised version, December 2021
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815448
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics
Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022
Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda …. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the … national plebiscites, to study the link between other-regarding preferences and support for redistribution in a broad sample of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306855
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A theory on media bias and elections
Sun, Junze; Schram, Arthur; Sloof, Randolph - 2019
We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News released by media allows voters to infer the relative appeal of the two candidates, and the closeness of elections. In large elections, the former determines the election...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030647
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Growth of Electoral Fraud in Non-Democracies : The Role of Uncertainty
Vorobyev, Dmitriy - 2010
theoretical model that explains the observed tendency of growing fraud. Specifically, in a probabilistic voting model of electoral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014190201
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Information Design for Weighted Voting
Kerman, Toygar T.; Tenev, Anastas P. - 2022
that matches the true state and have homogeneous preferences, but are heterogeneous in their voting weights. Given a weight … theory and interpret the voting problem as a simple game to analyze optimal communication for various voting situations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243046
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Consistency and communication in committees
Deimen, Inga; Ketelaar, Felix; Thordal-Le Quement, Mark - 2013
sincere voting is an equilibrium outcome of our model for a large set of parameter values implying the possibility of ex post … conflict between committee members. Furthermore, abandonning the assumption of sincere voting, we characterize necessary and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748686