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Vote-Motivated Candidates
Journal of Economic Theory . 2018. Vol. 176. P. 232–254.
Sorokin C., Zakharov A.
We study stochastic voting models where the candidates are allowed to have any smooth, strictly increasing utility functions that translate vote shares into payoffs. We find that if a strict Nash equilibrium exists in a model with an infinite number of voters, then nearby equilibria should exist for similar large, but finite, electorates. If the votes are independent random events, then equilibria will not depend on the utility functions of the candidates. Our results have implications for existing models of redistributive politics and spatial competition, as the properties of pure-strategy equilibria in such games carry over to equilibria in games with arbitrary candidate preferences. On the other hand, candidate utility functions will matter if the individual voting decisions are correlated. In the presence of aggregate uncertainty, such as changing economic conditions or political scandals, the preferences of parties and candidates with respect to shares of votes will have an effect on political competition.
Veselova Y. A., Maastricht: Maastricht University, 2023.
Collective decision-making is a part of everyday life in modern society. People invented a variety of voting procedures for aggregating individual preferences into a collective choice. However, the problem is that people can misrepresent their preferences in order to achieve a more preferable voting result. This phenomenon is called manipulation and is considered negative since ...
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Moreva Y., Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Серия 12: Социология 2023 Т. 16 № 4 С. 428–438
The article examines the relationship between subjective well-being and elections turnout. The purpose of the article is to determine how subjective well-being affects turnout. To achieve the purpose, the link between subjective well-being and electoral participation should be stud-ied along with the influence that political regime has on this link. The majority of previous research ...
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Ivanov A., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2022 № 5(57) С. 14–23
Abstract. Manipulation is a phenomenon when an agent or a group of agents misrepresent her/their preferences in the ballots in order to obtain a better outcome of the social choice. It has been proven that there is no not-dictatorial social choice rule which is nonmanipulable. There are two approaches to fi nd the least manipulable ...
Added: January 26, 2024
Kravtsova M., Libman A., Economic Systems 2023 Vol. 47 No. 2 Article 101077
Family structure is considered a particularly important predictor of social and political development; historical differences in family size and other family characteristics cast a long shadow over societal development. This paper explores the effect of differences in historical family size on political behavior based on within-country variations in this characteristic in Russia. Unlike most papers ...
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Sarieva I., Психологические исследования: электронный научный журнал 2022 Т. 15 № 83 Статья 2
The current study was aimed to analyze the associations between the system justification, belief in its (system) stability and willingness to engage in various forms of political action (voting, signing petitions, as well as street protests, among which are picketing, participation in sanctioned and unsanctioned rallies). According to our linear regression model, system justification was ...
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Galstyan N., Актуальные проблемы российского права 2023 Т. 18 № 1 С. 43–59
The paper analyzes the status of election commissions as safeguards of ensuring and protecting political competition in the Russian Federation. Political competition is considered in the context of elections as a mechanism for implementing constitutional principles of alternation of power and ensuring political rights of participants in electoral relations. The paper describes a specific place ...
Added: January 26, 2023
Rumiantseva A., Russian Politics 2022 Vol. 7 No. 2 P. 265–288
After the 2021 State Duma elections, the Communist Party of Russia Federation (KPRF) re-appeared on the Russian political landscape as a new political force with new faces and creative local campaigns. How and why were the communists being treated by most of the analysts and voters as systemic and rather passive opposition successfully accumulated political ...
Added: December 10, 2022
Larichev A., Ржановский В. А., Журнал российского права 2022 Т. 26 № 9 С. 35–52
Abstract. The article discusses the main regulatory provisions in the field of Remote electronic voting (further — the Remote e-Voting). The legislative changes regarding the procedure for Remote e-Voting, information systems and other Remote e-Voting institutions should be theoretically conceptualized. A specific characteristic of Remote e-Voting is a digital environment during voting. This concerns the ...
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Semyonov A., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2022 Т. 105 № 2 С. 102–117
Ethnicity, being one of the most important forms of selfidentification, plays a significant role in many political processes, including the electoral process. Many research articles document a systematic relationship between ethnic identity and voting. At the same time, there is a dearth of studies about the concrete mechanisms on how ethnicity and voting are connected ...
Added: September 3, 2022
Clemens Puppe, Burka D., Szepesváry L. et al., / Series ISSN 2190-9806 "KIT Working paper in Economics". 2020. No. 145.
Voting rules can be assessed from quite different perspectives: the axiomatic, the pragmatic, in terms of computational or conceptual simplicity, susceptibility to manipulation, and many others aspects. In this paper, we take the machine learning perspective and ask how ‘well’ a few prominent voting rules can be learned by a neural network. To address this ...
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Kolokoltsov V., малафеев о. а., Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd, 2021.
Game theory is the mathematical discipline aimed to model various interactions of living organisms in quantitative terms. Game theory, as the universal method for the analysis of social interactions has wide applications in economics, in the theory of control and management, financial mathematics, evolutionary biology, sociology, psychology and politics, in modelling different social processes, in ...
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Coates D. C., Fahrner M., Pawlowski T., European Sport Management Quarterly 2021
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Despite significantly increasing membership in professional football clubs over time, few members exercise their right to vote. We explore whether factors found to influence turnout to shareholder voting and political elections are also relevant in this peculiar setting. Given the geographically widespread distribution of members, a particular focus is put on the relevance of ...
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Tolvanen J., Tremewan J., Wagner A., American Political Science Review 2022 Vol. 116 No. 2 P. 734–750
This paper studies, theoretically and experimentally, a model of electoral competition which allows for platforms where candidates may be ambiguous about which policy they will implement if elected. We argue that uncertainty about the policy preferences of the electorate, combined with perceived similarity of voters and candidates, can lead to the latter running on these ...
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Ianovski E., Kondratev A., , in: The Thirty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Technical Tracks 6Vol. 35. Issue 6.: AAAI Press, 2021. P. 5489–5496.
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Ianovski E., Annals of Operations Research 2022 Vol. 318 No. 2 P. 985–1000
We consider the problem of electing a committee of k candidates, subject to constraints as to which committees are admissible for constitutional, conventional, or practical reasons. In our framework, the candidates are given labels as an abstraction of a politician’s religion, a film’s genre, a song’s language, or other attribute, and the election outcome is constrained by ...
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Penikas H. I., Model Assisted Statistics and Applications 2020 Vol. 15 P. 371–388
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision finalized the Basel III accord in the December 2017 and launched the set of its standards – the Basel Framework – in December 2019. Both documents allow bank to use mathematical models for the credit risk estimation. There are quantitative and qualitative requirements for models to be allowed for ...
Added: January 6, 2021
Diwan I., Vartanova I., International Journal of Educational Development 2020 Vol. 78 P. 102249
Do states manage to build education systems that produce students with political values they uphold? We test the indoctrination hypothesis using World Value Survey data spanning 96 countries. We devise an empirical strategy that can identify the effects of education on political values by using information about the political regime under which individuals live, and ...
Added: September 23, 2020
Anilov A., Ivashkovskaya I., Journal of Management and Governance 2020 No. 24 P. 989–1017
In this article, we evaluate CEO behavior in terms of his or her preferences to risk, and how the actions of boards of directors interplay with these behaviors. Specifically, we set out to test whether the actions of boards of directors can overcome the negative impacts of CEO behavior on various aspects of payout policy. ...
Added: October 27, 2019