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Beginning in the second half of the 17th century any deputy could dismiss a session of the Polish-Lithuanian parliament by shouting: I do not allow. This political device came to be known as liberum veto, an unceasing subject of controversy. Historians blame it for the decline and subsequent...
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Who will vote quadratically in large-N elections under quadratic voting (QV)? First, who will vote? Although the core … examine reasons that, in large-N elections, the number of votes that an individual casts may deviate substantially from that …, voting behavior and outcomes would be determined predominately by social and psychological forces, would thereby exhibit few …
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The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
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In this paper we analyze the consequences of the fairness recommendation of the Venice Commission in allocating voting …
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values. The SSPI can serve as a control for power imbedded in voting blocs, permitting fuller analysis of other factors that …
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between two potential policy outcomes of an election participate in large-scale elections when voting is costly? Using a … understanding of this form of costly punishment to help explain a puzzle of voting behavior: why do people who are indifferent … simple voting experiment, we show that many voters are willing to engage in voting as a form of punishment, even when voting …
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