Selecting Chief Justices by Peer Vote

Why Vote with the Chief? Political Connections and Public Goods Provision in Zambia

Why are voters influenced by the views of local patrons when casting their ballots? The existing literature suggests that coercion and personal obligations underpin this form of clientelism, causing voters to support candidates for reasons tangential to political performance. However, voters who support candidates preferred by local patrons may be making sophisticated political inferences. In m...

Vote Early, Vote Often

The Spatiality of (In)justices

Implementation by vote-buying mechanisms∗

A vote-buying mechanism is such that each agent chooses a quantity of votes x to cast for an alternative at a cost c(x), and the outcome is determined by the total number of votes cast for each alternative. In the context of binary decisions, we prove that the welfare optima that can be implemented by vote-buying mechanisms in large societies are parameterized by a positive parameter ρ, which m...

Vote on How We Vote ?

Leslie matrices are taught as a method of modeling populations in a discrete-time fashion with more detail in the tracking of age groups within the population. Leslie matrices have limited use in the actual modeling of populations, since when the age groups are summed, it is basically equivalent to discrete-time modeling assuming exponential population growth. The logistic model of population g...