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Hausladen, Carina Ines; Hänggli, Regula; Helbing, Dirk; … - 2023

democracy. This study investigates the impact of voting rules on the perception of legitimacy in a democratic government.Using a … human subject experiment, 120 participants cast their votes using four voting methods: Majority voting, Combined Approval … Voting, Score Voting, and modified Borda Count. The experiment was conducted in two contexts: a non-consequential setting …

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Rent-Seeking for Public Goods : Group’s Size and Wealth Heterogeneity

Nupia, Oskar - 2011

In this paper, we study how between-group wealth and size heterogeneity affect success probabilities as well as aggregate rent-seeking efforts when two groups compete for the allocation of a pure public good. Unlike with previous models, we measure the utility cost of rent-seeking in terms of...

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Conservative politicians and voting on same-sex marriage

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017

the majority increased by one percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by …

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Rewarding conservative politicians? : evidence from voting on same-sex marriage

Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We examine whether voters rewarded conservative politicians who were voting in favor of same-sex marriage. Data is …

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Lobbying in a multidimensional policy space with salient issues

Roberti, Paolo - 2014

We present a citizen-candidate model on a multidimensional policy space with lobbying, where citizens regard some issues more salient than others. We find that special interest groups that lobby on less salient topics move the implemented policy closer to their preferred policy, compared to the...

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Citizens or lobbies : who controls policy?

Roberti, Paolo - 2016

This paper analyses a model of electoral competition with lobbying, where candidates hold private information about their willingness to pander to lobbies, if elected. I show that this uncertainty induces risk-averse voters to choose candidates who implement policies biased in favor of the...

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Does Parchment Matter? Constitutions and Freedom

Taylor, Brad R. - 2009

Despite much theoretical discussion the enforceability of constitutional constraints, the question has received little empirical attention. After discussing the theoretical arguments for and against the proposition that constitutions are capable of protecting individual liberty against...

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James M. Buchanan and the European public choice movement : what did we learn from him?

Schneider, Friedrich - 2013

In this note, three major areas of Buchanan's research are briefly described: (1) The ideas of Knut Wicksell on Buchanan's work, (2) constitutional economics and the veil of ignorance, and (3) the role of government and/or the power to tax. It is shown that these three areas had a major...

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Lobbying, Inside and Out : How Special Interest Groups Influence Policy Choices

Wolton, Stephane - 2020

Special interest groups (SIGs) have multiple channels of influence: contributing to decision-makers or providing them with information (henceforth, inside lobbying) and grassroots mobilizations or advertising their position to voters (henceforth, outside lobbying). How do these channels...

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Citizens United : A Theoretical Evaluation

Prato, Carlo - 2016

Following the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Citizens United v FEC, interest groups engaging in outside spending can receive unlimited contributions from unions and corporations. Critics of the decision have rejected the notion, espoused by the majority opinion, that outside spending does...

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