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One Man One Vote

Social Science Research Network
In the United States, electoral districts must be equipopulous. This requirement is known as the one man, one vote doctrine. We propose welfare-based justifications for this requirement under the economic view, according to which voters care about the ...
Romans Pancs, Tridib Sharma
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Optimal Voting Mechanisms on Generalized Single-Peaked Domains

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
This paper studies the design of voting mechanisms. There are multiple alternatives, and the voters have generalized single-peaked preferences derived from median spaces as introduced in Nehring and Puppe (2007b).
Tobias Rachidi
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Sequential Sampling by Individuals and Groups: An Experimental Study

American Economic Review: Insights
Many committees—juries, political task forces, etc.—spend time gathering costly information before reaching a decision. We report results from lab experiments focused on such dynamic information-collection processes, as in sequential hypothesis testing ...
Pëllumb Reshidi   +4 more
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Cardinality and Utilitarianism through Social Interactions

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
We provide axioms that relate the preferences of each group in a society to the preferences of the subgroups contained in them. These axioms yield cardinal utility indices for each individual and a representation of group preferences as the group ...
Shiri Alon, Ehud Lehrer
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Contingent Reasoning and Dynamic Public Goods Provision

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Contributions toward public goods often reveal information that is useful to others considering their own contributions. This experiment compares static and dynamic contribution decisions to determine how contingent reasoning differs in dynamic decisions
Evan M. Calford, T. Cason
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Repression and Repertoires

Social Science Research Network, 2021
We formalize Tilly’s concept of repertoires of collective action and analyze how state repression affects the variety of observed contentious actions.
S. Morris, Mehdi Shadmehr
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Overdog Team, Underdog Team and the Philosophy of Soccer Team Ranking

Revue d' Economie politique
La méthode de Ramanujacharyula [1964], appliquée dans le domaine sportif, permet de déterminer le rang d’une équipe en tenant compte à la fois de la force des équipes qu’elle bat, ainsi que de la force des équipes qui l’ont battue.
F. Chantreuil   +2 more
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