Pivotal Voting and the Emperor's New Clothes

Howard Margolis

No 9926, Working Papers from Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago

Abstract: This is a set of short papers commenting on the work on pivotal voting initiated by Austin-Smith & Banks (1996). It covers the ASB paper, plus a particularly prominent sequence of follow-on results by Feddersen & Pesendorfer (1996, 1998, 1999a, 1999b). The aim is to reproduce the results in a mathematically undemanding way, and comment on the empirically problematic nature of both assumptions and inferences.

Keywords: pivotal voting; Austin-Smith; Banks; Feddersen; Pesendorfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-12
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