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A Structural Model of Turnout and Voting in Multiple Elections
Degan, Arianna; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2006
This paper develops a unified approach to study participation and voting in multiple elections. The theoretical setting … turnout and voting in U.S. presidential and congressional elections. We structurally estimate the model using individual …-level data for the 2000 elections, and quantify the relationships between observed individual characteristics and unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126679
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A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers: Supplementary Materiel
Diermeier, Daniel; Keane, Michael; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2004
This paper contains additional details about the model in our paper “A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers” (Diermeier, Keane and Merlo (2004)), as well as the computational methods we use to solve and estimate the model, and the construction of the data set.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061913
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Do Citizens Vote Sincerely (If They Vote at All)? Theory and Evidence from U. S. National Elections
Degan, Arianna; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2004
explain observed patterns of participation and voting in U.S. national elections. We propose a unified model of turnout and … voting in presidential and congressional elections with heterogeneous voters. We estimate the model using individual level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061918
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A Political Economy Model of Congressional Careers
Diermeier, Daniel; Keane, Michael; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2002
Theories in political economy depend critically on assumptions about motivations of politicians. Our analysis starts from the premise that politicians, like other economic agents, are rational individuals who make career decisions by comparing the expected returns of alternative choices. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109583
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A Structural Model of Turnout and Voting in Multiple Elections, Fourth Version
Degan, Arianna; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2007
This paper develops a unified approach to study participation and voting in multiple elections. The theoretical setting … turnout and voting in U.S. presidential and congressional elections. We structurally estimate the model using individual …-level data for the 2000 elections, and quantify the relationships between observed individual characteristics and unobserved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005109585
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A Structural Model of Turnout and Voting in Multiple Elections
Degan, Arianna; Merlo, Antonio - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2004
In this paper, we propose a unified approach to study participation and voting in multiple elections. The theoretical … study turnout and voting in U.S. national (presidential and congressional) elections, and structurally estimate the model … using individual-level data for the 2000 elections. The estimated model replicates the patterns of abstention, selective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005020644
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Government Turnover in Parliamentary Democracies
Diermeier, Daniel; Merlo, Antonio - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 1998
analysis accounts for the following observed phenomena: (1) Cabinet reshuffles; (2) Cabinet replacements; (3) Early elections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824644
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Do Voters Vote Sincerely?
Merlo, Antonio; Degan, Arianna - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
data on how the same individuals vote in multiple elections, the hypothesis that voters vote sincerely is potentially … theoretical framework and assess whether the behavior of voters is consistent with sincere voting in U.S. national elections in …-level observations on voting behavior in presidential and congressional U.S. elections in the data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828909
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Endogenous lobbying
Felli, Leonardo; Merlo, Antonio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
In this paper we present a citizen-candidate model of representative democracy with endogenous lobbying. We find that lobbying induces policy compromise and always affects equilibrium policy outcomes. In particular, even though the policy preferences of lobbies are relatively extreme, lobbying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746186
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Identification and Estimation of Preference Distributions When Voters Are Ideological
Merlo, Antonio; Paula, Aureo de - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2010
. We build on the methods introduced by Degan and Merlo (2009) representing elections as Voronoi tessellations of the … estimation using data from the 1999 European Parliament elections. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008773594