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during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model of elections in which voters have privately observed preferences …
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profile no longer constitutes an equilibrium under the commonly-used simultaneous voting rules, while the intuitive but … public information introduces general correlation between the signals observed by the agents. We propose simple voting … public information. The proposed voting procedures also have additional advantages when there is a concern for strategic …
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We study information aggregation with a biased election organizer who recruits voters at some cost. Voters are symmetric ex-ante and prefer policy a in state a and policy b in state B, but the organizer prefers policy a regardless of the state. Each recruited voter observes a private signal...
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Informed voters are believed to be necessary for the well-functioning of elections. However, the puzzle is raised: Why are voters and politicians becoming more polarized despite the increased availability of information? We consider an election with policy-motivated candidates and partially...
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