Why voters may prefer congested public clubs

Why Voters May Prefer Congested Public Clubs

Governmental facilities for such services as education, health, and transportation are often small, of poor quality, and overcrowded, even when the costs are spread among all taxpayers. We also find that governments may subsidize private facilities providing the same services, or may charge admission fees at public facilities. We explain these phenomena with a model which considers two types of...

When Moderate Voters Prefer Extreme Parties:

This work develops and tests a theory of voter choice in parliamentary elections. I demonstrate that voters are concerned with policy outcomes and hence incorporate the way institutions convert votes to policy into their choices. Since policy is often the result of institutionalized multi-party bargaining and thus votes are watered-down by power-sharing, voters often compensate for this waterin...

Angry voters may turn back the clocks

Science, the environment, and efforts to mitigate climate change are among the likely casualties when the UK goes through with the exit from the European Union. Within a year of the vote that granted rightwing populist Nigel Farage the fulfi lment of his lifetime ambition, electoral success for populists in the US and in France could bring a U-turn for Western civilisation and make it renounce ...

Immigration, Public Pensions, and Heterogenous Voters Immigration, Public Pensions, and Heterogenous Voters

Depending on the design of the domestic pension system and the type of immigrants, voters will decide differently on immigration policy. In this paper, we investigate the voting outcome of three groups of heterogenous voters (skilled workers, unskilled workers, and retirees) under Beveridgian or Bismarckian pension systems which are either of the fixed contribution rate or the fixed replacement...

Why Even the Logic of Re-Defined Choice May Still Contradict the Logic of Care in Public Health Systems?