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A Theorem on Preference Aggregation [PDF]
I present a general theorem on preference aggregation. This theorem implies, as corollaries, Arrow's Impossibility Theorem, Wilson's extension of Arrow's to non-Paretian aggregation rules, the Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem and Sen's result on the ...
Salvador Barberà
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IMMIGRATION POLICY OF THE MEDIAN VOTER IN DANISH POLITICS [PDF]
, 2022 This project aims to research the median voter theorem through an issue voting lens and how the median voter affects the political parties with a special focus on the Danish party ‘Socialdemokratiet’.
Bascoban, Ersin +3 more
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Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The epistocracy debate has turned largely on the character of the electorate—what voters know, whether competence filters can be designed well, and what filtered selection produces. Another strand has focused on the legitimacy of epistocratic justifications. I ask instead about the equilibrium effects of the institution.
Simon Goldstein
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The politics of foreign aid: A median voter perspective
, 2003 The paper presents a model where the median voter in the donor country determines the support of foreign aid. It is first established that an individual in the donor country is affected by the direct benefits (due to altruism) and costs (due to taxes) of
Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis +1 more
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Broad and narrow, legal and expressive: The dual nature of Rights of Nature in Europe
Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.Abstract Rights of Nature initiatives have been met with considerable scepticism within European legal landscapes. Often termed a ‘legal transplant’, a rights‐based approach to nature is criticised as offering little added value beyond the safeguards provided by traditional environmental law.
Flora Hausammann, Johannes Reich
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Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach [PDF]
We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. Our key insight is that linking benefits to past earnings (less redistributiveness) reduces the efficiency ...
Marko Koethenbuerger +2 more
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Economic Governance and Institutional Design
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should institutions be designed to achieve compliance with behavioral rules, including laws, social norms, religious rules, or cultural traditions? This conceptual paper introduces a typology of economic governance institutions and explains how it can be used both by policy makers, administrators, and researchers in all social sciences to ...
Jens Prüfer
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Strategy-Proofness and Single-Crossing [PDF]
This paper analyzes strategy-proof collective choice rules when individuals have single-crossing preferences on a finite and ordered set of social alternatives.
Alejandro Saporiti
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Deliberative Democracy and Incompatibilities of Choice Norms. [PDF]
Behav Sci (Basel), 2023 Nurmi H.
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