political phenomena that ensued is presented. In the case of sophisticated voting over certain kinds of binary agendas, such as … sometimes yield “sophisticated sincerity”, where equilibrium voting behavior is indistinguishable from sincere voting. Under … behave leads to probabilistic voting models that typically yield utilitarian outcomes. Uncertainty among the voters over …

characteristics to others. The model is one of rational voting and generates the following predictions: (i) The paradox of not voting … does not arise, because the benefit of voting does not vanish with population size. (ii) Turnout in elections is positively … related to the size of the local community and the importance of social interactions. (iii) Voting may exhibit bandwagon …

The voting out of a government or the disempowerment of a dictator may fail if there is no incentive for the individual … provides one more theoretical explanation for the positive correlation between the de-gree of democracy and prosperity in cross …

in a social media environment on voting behavior. Our results show that mandatory disclosure of interests, in combination …

In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal … 1971, and the other shortly thereafter. I estimate the impact of introducing female voting on the difference in acceptance … population. I provide additional evidence from post-ballot surveys after similar ballots to overcome potential strategic voting …

allows us to focus on revealed preferences for direct democracy and to identify factors which explain this preference …. Empirical results suggests support for direct democracy is rather related to dissatisfaction with representative democracy in …

involving a sample group. These mechanisms reflect the principles of liberal democracy, are procedurally efficient, and involve … private information truthfully before voting takes place. Depending on the distance between two feasible public good levels …, the optimal mechanism involves either one or two voting rounds. We show that procedural efficiency cannot be achieved by …

reforms and even be less satisfied with democracy as such. We test this hypothesis empirically, using panel data from 30 … European countries in the period 1993-2015. The dependent variable is the average satisfaction with democracy, while the reform …. Our results indicate that while reforms of government size are not robustly related to satisfaction with democracy …