The Political Economy of Social Choices

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Autocratic Health Versus Democratic Health: Different Outcome Variables for Health as a Factor Versus Health as a Right

   • Dina Rosenberg, Olga Shvetsova

   Pages 1-20

3. Comparison of Voting Procedures Using Models of Electoral Competition with Endogenous Candidacy

   • Damien Bol, Arnaud Dellis, Mandar Oak

   Pages 21-54

4. Negative Advertising During Mexico’s 2012 Presidential Campaign

   • Andrei Gomberg, Emilio Gutiérrez, Zeev Thepris

   Pages 55-72

5. Legislative Leaders as Condorcet Winners? The Case of the U.S. Congress

   • Robert S. Erikson, Yair Ghitza

   Pages 73-91

6. The Duverger-Demsetz Perspective on Electoral Competitiveness and Fragmentation: With Application to the Canadian Parliamentary System, 1867–2011

   • J. Stephen Ferris, Stanley L. Winer, Bernard Grofman

   Pages 93-122

7. Modelling the Effect of Campaign Advertising on US Presidential Elections

   • Maria Gallego, Norman Schofield

   Pages 123-152

8. Personality Traits and the Gender Gap in Ideology

   • Rebecca Morton, Jean-Robert Tyran, Erik Wengström

   Pages 153-185

9. Statistical Utilitarianism

   • Marcus Pivato

   Pages 187-204

10. Measuring Campaign Spending Effects in Post-Citizens United Congressional Elections

    • Brandon Barutt, Norman Schofield

    Pages 205-232

11. Spatial Model of U.S. Presidential Election in 2012

    • Jeong Hyun Kim, Norman Schofield

    Pages 233-241

12. Modeling Elections and Referenda in Ireland

    • Norman Schofield, William Simoneau

    Pages 243-259

This book presents state-of-the-art research in political economy dealing with the decision making process under different political institutions. It focuses on the role that states and governments have on political outcomes and on the well-being of individuals, taking into account the differences that arise across autocracies and democracies and within political regimes. The research in this book is embedded with the political economy and social choice traditions and uses the rigorous frameworks of economics, political science and social choice theory to show how institutional settings shape social choices of a group of individuals or a nation. The contributions in this volume use a variety of cutting-edge game theory and mathematical tools as well as data and simulations that coupled with statistical techniques help us gain greater insights into these issues.

• Elections
• Legislatures
• Political economy
• Social choice
• Voting

• Department of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

  Maria Gallego

• Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, USA

  Norman Schofield

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