Elections affect the division of resources in society and are occasions for political elites to make appeals rooted voters' self-interest. Hence, elections may erode altruistic norms cause people behave more selfishly. We test this intuition using Dictator Games a lab-in-the-field experiment involving sample than 1000 individuals Kenya Tanzania. adopt two approaches. First, we experimentally pr...

Presidential primaries are a critical part of the United States electoral process, since they used to select candidates in election. While methods differ by state and party, many involve proportional delegate allocation using so-called Hamilton method. In this paper we show how conduct risk-limiting audits for elections variants method where viability is determined either plurality vote or inst...

The goals of democratic competition are not only to give implement a majority's preference on policy questions, but also to provide a deterrent against corrupt abuse of power by political leaders. We consider a simple model of multicandidate elections in which different electoral systems can be compared according to these two criteria. Among a wide class of singlewinner scoring rules, only appr...

While there is only little transformation to the absolute power of the party-state to be detected, some grassroots democratic experiments, however, are receiving enormous attention of the world, especially village elections. Nevertheless, this preliminary exercise of democracy is widely characterized as a mixed bag of results. Since its first conduction, it has experienced immense development a...

Voter turnout in game theoretic models of voting has typically been difficult to predict because of the problem of multiple Nash equilibria. Many of these equilibria require an extreme precision of beliefs among voters that is unlikely to be reached in real elections. At the same time, mechanisms like pre-election polls exist to shape the beliefs of voters about expected turnout. We combine the...

The RIES-KOA e-voting system was used in the Netherlands as an additional system for the elections by expatriates for the Tweede Kamer (roughly: the Dutch House of Commons) elections in 2006. Although the system has been used in other elections in the Netherlands as well, there have been few independent evaluations of the system. In this paper, we apply the recently proposed Protection Profile ...

We propose and estimate a dynamic model of voting which incorporates the three main factors affecting voting choices of individual citizens: party identification, policy preferences and candidates’ valence. Using individual level data on voting decisions in two consecutive presidential elections we identify and estimate (1) the distribution of voters’ policy positions, and (2) candidates’ valen...

From the first national elections in 2002 and first local suku (village) elections over 2004–05, the East Timorese people have repeatedly and enthusiastically exercised their right to choose their representatives through direct, secret ballot. The commitment of the East Timorese state to democracy has also been demonstrated through formal steps to safeguard fundamental political and civil freed...

When elections are close in time, voters may stick to their preferred party or chose a different option for several reasons; reliable estimates of the amount of transitions across the available options can allow to answer a number of relevant questions about electoral behaviour. We describe a modified version of the model due to Brown and Payne (J Am Stat Assoc 81:453–460, 1986) and argue that ...