Working Papers

NICEP Working Paper Series

The aim of the NICEP Working Paper Series is to serve as a platform to present the work in progress of NICEP members and associates/speakers and to encourage debate and discussion on our research. You are invited to email the authors of the working papers with comments and/or suggestions.  The Working Paper Series Editor is Michael Poyker

NICEP working papers are freely available online to all and downloadable in PDF format.

NICEP working papers 2021

NICEP working papers 2020

NICEP working papers 2019

NICEP working papers 2018

• 2018-06: Dynamic Legislative Policy Making under Adverse Selection by Vincent Anesi
• 2018-05: Policy Experimentation, Redistribution and Voting Rules by Vincent Anesi and T. Renee Bowen
• 2018-04: Compliance shocks under low bureaucratic capacity by Daniel Tanis
• 2018-03: The Electoral Impact of Newly Enfranchised Groups: The Case of Women’s Suffrage in the United States by Mona Morgan Collins
• 2018-02: Polarization and Corruption in America by Mickael Melki and Andrew Pickering
• 2018-01: The Clarity Incentive for Issue Engagements in Campaigns by Chitralekha Basu and Matthew Knowles

NICEP working papers 2017

• 2017-06: Tactical Extremism by Jon X. Eguia and Francesco Giovannoni
• 2017-05: On the different forms of individual and group strategic behaviour, and their impact on efficiency by Salvador Barberà, Dolors Berga and Bernardo Moreno. This paper has been published in Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 110.
• 2017-04: The King Can Do No Wrong: On Criminal Immunity of Leaders by Jiahua Che, Kim-Sau Chung and Xue Qiao
• 2017-03: A Shut Mouth Catches No Flies: Consideration of Issues and Voting by Salvador Barberà and Anke Gerber
• 2017-02: The First and Last Word In Debates: Plaintive Plaintiffs by Elena D’Agostino and Daniel J Seidmann
• 2017-01: Race, Representation and Policy: Black Elected Officials and Public Spending in the US South by Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa

NICEP working papers 2016

• 2016-14: Labor Market Participation, Political Ideology and Distributive Preferences by Simona Demel, Abigail Barr, Luis Miller and Paloma Ubeda
• 2016-13: Choosing Your Battles Wisely? Activist Preferences, Party Size and Issue Selection by Chitralekha Basu
• 2016-12: Glass half full? Or half empty? Civil service professionalization in the Western Balkans between successful rule adoption and ineffective implementation by Jan-Hinrik Meyer-Sahling
• 2016-11: Plaintive Plaintiffs: The First and Last Word in Debates by Elena D’Agostino and Daniel J Seidmann
• 2016-10: The Volatility of Volatility: Assessing Uses of the Pedersen Index to Measure Changes in Party Vote Shares by Fernando Casal Bértoa, Kevin Deegan-Krause and Tim Haughton. This paper has been published in Electoral Studies, vol 50.
  
• 2016-09: Elections and Divisiveness: Theory and Evidence by Elliott Ash, Massimo Morelli and Richard Van Weelden
• 2016-08: How Much Is That Star in the Window? Professorial Salaries and Research Performance in UK Universities by Gianni De Fraja, Giovanni Facchini and John Gathergood
• 2016-07: Economic Recessions and Congressional Preferences for Redistribution by Maria Carreri and Edoardo Teso
• 2016-06: Manufacturing Extremism: Political Consequences of Profit-Seeking Media by Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay, Kalyan Chatterjee and Jaideep Roy
• 2016-05: Corruption and Bicameral Reforms by Giovanni Facchini and Cecilia Testa. This paper has been published in Social Choice and Welfare, vol 47, issue 2.
• 2016-04: Dynamic Bargaining and Stability with Veto Players by Vincent Anesi and John Duggan. This paper has been published in Games and Economic Behaviour vol 103.
  
• 2016-03: Existence and Indeterminacy of Markovian Equilibria in Dynamic Bargaining Games by Vincent Anesi and John Duggan. This paper has been published in Theoretical Economics, vol 12, issue 3.
  
• 2016-02: On the Social Appropriateness of Discrimination by Abigail Barr, Tom Lane and Daniele Nosenzo
• 2016-01: Does Material Hardship Affect Political Preferences? It Depends on the Political Context by Charlotte Cavaille and Anja Neundorf

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