 Equal suffrage: Given the Dutch electoral system, each voter is permitted to cast one vote per election, which is counted once only in the counting of votes;  Accessibility: Voters must be given every opportunity to participate directly in the election process. If this is not possible, there must be an opportunity to participate indirectly by the granting of a proxy;  Transparency: The elec...

Abstract Observational studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that party unity improves a party's electoral performance. Yet, due to lack of experimental evidence, the causal standing these findings remains unclear. Moreover, manifests in various ways we do not know how much different types affect vote. Relying on conjoint experiment implemented probability-based survey German population, our s...

Remote Internet voting places the control and secrecy of the immediate voting environment on the shoulder of the individual voter but it also turns voting into yet another on-line activity thus endangering the well-known social nature of voting and possibly reducing the crucial sense of civic duty that is important for a healthy democracy. There is however a complete lack of evidence to what de...

Catholics have long been an important force in American electoral politics. Once a vital and loyal component of the New Deal Democratic coalition, Catholics in recent decades have shifted their political loyalties away from the Democratic Party to more of a partisan equilibrium. Indeed, by 2012, the White Catholic vote had become predominantly Republican, even in a year in which a Democrat was ...

This paper studies the choice between centralization and decentralization of fiscal policy in a political economy setting. With centralization, regional delegates vote over agendas comprising sets of regionspecific projects. The outcome is inefficient because the choice of projects is insufficiently sensitive to within-region benefits. The number of projects funded may be non-monotonic in the s...

Although the 2004 presidential election was predicted to be razor close, Republican President George W. Bush became the first candidate to win a majority of the popular vote since his father in 1988. Bush’s coattails extended to the U.S. Congress as well, with Republican gains in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. Journalists and pundits immediately attributed Republican success ...

Using data from an e-voting experiment conducted in the 2005 Congressional Election in Argentina, we estimate the effect of different e-voting technologies on the likelihood that citizens cast their vote for different parties for the National Congress and the Legislature of Buenos Aires. Our results indicate that voters are extremely receptive to the information cues provided by the different v...