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Vote-buying and growth
Gersbach, Hans; Mühe, Felix - 2008
Vote-buying is widely used by parties in developing countries to influence the outcome of elections. We examine the impact of vote-buying on growth. We consider a model with a poverty trap where redistribution can promote growth. We show that vote-buying contributes to the persistence of poverty...
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Mitigating the shadow of conflict: the role of social and human capital for the reduction of conflicts
Schmidt, Dorothee - 2007
subject the relevant parties to education. Education can take two forms: increasing an individual's human capital on the one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264810
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Ties
Revelli, Federico; Tsai, Tsung-Sheng - 2019
This paper investigates whether the rare occurrence of a local election ending in a tie or being decided by a single vote generates informational spill-overs on nearby localities' subsequent elections. First, based on the pivotal-voter theory, we develop a model of costly instrumental voting in...
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Who will vote quadratically? : voter turnout and votes cast under quadratic voting
Kaplow, Louis; Kominers, Scott Duke - 2016
Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core QV literature assumes that everyone votes, turnout is endogenous. Drawing on other work, we consider the representativeness of endogenously determined turnout under QV. Second,...
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On the representativeness of voter turnout
Kaplow, Louis; Kominers, Scott Duke - 2020
Prominent theory research on voting uses models in which expected pivotality drives voters' turnout decisions and hence determines voting outcomes. It is recognized, however, that such work is at odds with Downs's paradox: in practice, many individuals turn out for reasons unrelated to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200354
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Compulsory voting, voter turnout and asymmetrical habit-formation
Gäbler, Stefanie; Potrafke, Niklas; Rösel, Felix - 2017
We examine whether compulsory voting influences habit-formation in voting. In Austria, some states temporarily introduced compulsory voting in national elections. We exploit border municipalities across two states that differ in compulsory voting legislation using a difference-in-differences and...
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The Brennan-Lomasky test of expressive voting : when impressive probability differences are meaningless
Clark, Jeff Ray; Lee, Dwight R. - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 3, pp. 1-6
We consider a test of expressive voting developed by Brennan and Lomasky (1993). They point out that in presidential elections the probability of a tie, and casting a decisive vote, increases “multi-billionfold” as the election becomes increasingly close. They conjecture that if voters are...
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No surprises, please : voting costs and electoral turnout
Alipour, Jean-Victor; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022
We study how shocks to voting costs affect electoral turnout. Individuals whose polling place is relocated face changes to their cost of voting in person due to altered distance and unfamiliarity with the new polling place. Using address-level and precinct-level data, we find that polling place...
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Compliance Externalities and the Role Model Elect on Law Abidance : Field and Survey-Experimental Evidence
Fabbri, Marco - 2017
Recent theories of compliance predict that, apart from utilitarian considerations, individual decisions to respect or break the law account for virtuous motives and non-utilitarian willingness to promote the social good. We test whether empirical evidence resonates with these theories by...
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Lobbying for education in a two-sector model
Di Gioacchino, Debora; Profeta, Paola - 2011
of education complementary to their production. Lobbying is endogenous. We show that, if lobbying is not costly, both … sectors will lobby in equilibrium and education policy will induce the same skill composition that would be chosen by the … resources towards the type of education required by its production. Which sector will engage in lobbying depends on relative …
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