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Bargaining and voting
Usher, Dan - 2010
government by majority rule voting could not withstand a bargaining equilibrium comparable to the general equilibrium in a … competitive economy. Democratic government is designed to foster bargaining where it should be fostered and to impede bargaining … where it should be impeded. -- Bargaining ; Majority rule voting …
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Gefangen im Dilemma? : ein strategischer Ansatz der Wahl- und Revolutionsteilnahme
Möller, Marie - 2011
Machterhaltungsrestriktion in einer Demokratie bindend, in einer Diktatur dagegen nicht. Der Aufsatz liefert damit eine weitere theoretische … Erklärung für die positive Korrelation zwischen Demokratie und Wohlstand, die sich im Querschnittsvergleich zeigt. …
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Gefangen im Dilemma? : ein strategischer Ansatz der Wahl- und Revolutionsteilnahme
Möller, Marie - 2011
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Is Mandatory Voting Better than Voluntary Voting?
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2007
We investigate the welfare effects of policies that increase voter turnout in costly voting models. In a generalized costly voting model, we show that if the electorate is sufficiently large, then increasing voter turnout is generically efficient. Increasing turnout in small elections is only...
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Satisfaction Approval Voting
Brams, Steven J.; Kilgour, D. Marc - 2010
We propose a new voting system, satisfaction approval voting (SAV), for multiwinner elections, in which voters can approve of as many candidates or as many parties as they like. However, the winners are not those who receive the most votes, as under approval voting (AV), but those who maximize...
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Vote or Shout
Kaplan, Todd R. - 2010
We examine an environment with n voters each with a private value over two alternatives. We compare the social surplus of two mechanisms for deciding between them: majority voting and shouting. In majority voting, the choice with the most votes wins. With shouting, the voter who shouts the...
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The Benefits of Costly Voting
Chakravarty, Surajeet; Kaplan, Todd R.; Myles, Gareth D. - 2010
We present a costly voting model in which each voter has a private valuation for their preferred outcome of a vote. When there is a zero cost to voting, all voters vote and hence all values are counted equally regardless of how high they may be. By having a cost to voting, only those with high...
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A Simulation Analysis of the Effect of Party Identification on Finnish Parties' Optimal Positions
Papageorgiou, Achillefs - 2010
The Finnish National Election Study of 2003 revealed that in Finland most voters do not identify with parties and are self-described as independents. In this article it is asserted that partisan attachments affect Finnish parties’ optimal positions despite the large amount of independents. To...
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Satisfaction Approval Voting
Brams, Steven J. - 2010
We propose a new voting system, satisfaction approval voting (SAV), for multiwinner elections, in which voters can approve of as many candidates or as many parties as they like. However, the winners are not those who receive the most votes, as under approval voting (AV), but those who maximize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140591
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Voting as a Signaling Device
Aytimur, R. Emre - 2012
In this paper, citizens vote in order to influence the election outcome and in order to signal their unobserved 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...
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