CAS PO 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Plurality Voting System, Media Bias, Proportional Representation
2 Nov 2016
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Voters (principals) use elections to select officials (agents) to act on their behalf/ or govern. Adverse slection: a probklem of incomplete/ limited information. How do we know the agents we select are competent and the best people for the job. Moral hazard: a problem of not being able to observe all the actions taken by elected officials. Voters use simple rules/ signals to solve these problems. Electoral competition (somewhat) increases voter information to reduce these people. Founding: white men, 20+ years; many states required voters to own property. Voting is a right not a requirement. Measuring turnout: # of voters/ voting-age population. Who can"t vote: children, non-citizens, people in prison, ex-felons (many states) Education level, employment vs unemployment, race, age. Lists the name for all candidate for each office. Voters select a candidate from the list. Replaced partisan ballots that only listed candidate of a single party. Enabled split ticket voting: voting for candidates from different parties for different offices.
