Publications

February 2003
Article

Commercial Policy with Altruistic Voters

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Keywords: Policy; Voting

October 2015
Teaching Note

1996 Welfare Reform in the United States

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

Keywords: Median Voter Theorem; Moral Hazard; Voting; Ethics

Purchase

February 1984 (Revised August 1985)
Background Note

Note on Preference Analysis

By: David E. Bell

Keywords: Voting

Web

5.3 Community Standards Outcomes & Sanctions | MBA

participate in any academic exercises or extracurricular activities. Students may not receive a degree until they have been readmitted to good standing in HBS. Dismissal Dismissal is action taken in serious disciplinary cases whereby a student’s connection with the... View Details

2007
Working Paper

Choice, Rationality and Welfare Measurement

By: Jerry R. Green and Daniel A. Hojman

We present a method for evaluating the welfare of a decision maker, based on observed choice data. Unlike the standard economic theory of revealed preference, our method can be used whether or not the observed choices are rational. Paralleling the standard theory we... View Details

Keywords: Welfare Economics; Behavioral Economics; Psychology; Decision Making; Economics; Voting

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

various levels of alumni connections—from the vague connection of just having attended the same school to the strong connection of having attended the same school in the same degree program at the same time. “You can use that information to predict how people are going... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

Article

Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance against Elite Betrayal

By: Rafael Di Tella and Julio J. Rotemberg

We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice... View Details

Keywords: Populism; Corruption; Betrayal; Incompetence; Voting; Attitudes

01 Jun 2014
News

Spring Training for Startups

Angie Hicks (MBA 2000); discussions of a few of HBS's top entrepreneurship cases; and—naturally—plenty of networking opportunities. Summit attendees were also invited to check out the finale of another startup event on campus that day: the student New Venture... View Details

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

directors' votes on key corporate resolutions in proxy statements. As Louis Brandeis said in his 1914 treatise Other People's Money, and How the Bankers Use It, "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.…But the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

01 Jun 2014
News

Research Brief: Capitol Gains

representatives from the 101st to 110th Congresses. After assessing the main purpose of each bill and classifying each according to 49 industry categories, they watched how legislators voted when their home state's GDP was significantly... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

Article

Comment mobiliser les exclus du jeu politique?

By: Vincent Pons

Keywords: Elections; Voter Mobilization; France; Voting; Political Elections; France

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Editor's Note: Millions of Brits are going to the polls today to take part in an historic vote on the European Union that will have a huge impact on the economic, political, and social future of the United Kingdom and its relationships... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

2017
Working Paper

What Else Do Shareholders Want? Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management

By: Eugene F. Soltes, Suraj Srinivasan and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan

Shareholder proposals provide investors an opportunity to exercise their decision rights within firms, but managers can seek permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to dismiss proposals. We find that managers seek to exclude 39% of all proposals... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Business and Shareholder Relations

SSRN

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

Democracy has a dirty little secret. Despite the fever pitch over presidential primaries this year, the truth is there are few people actually voting. Before the most recent round of voting, only some 11 percent of eligible Democrats View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

19 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Podcast: Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal

Podcast with: Bharat Anand Interviewer: James Aisner Running Time: 17 min., 15 sec. Directors of Dow Jones & Co. this week accepted Rupert Murdoch's $5 billion, $60-per-share bid for the company and the jewel in the crown, the Wall Street Journal. The View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

January 2019
Article

Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France

By: Vincent Pons and Guillaume Liegey

Improving the political participation of immigrants could advance their interests and foster their integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010... View Details

Keywords: Electoral Behavior; Immigrants; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; France