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David Austen-Smith
Researcher at Northwestern University
Publications - 82
Citations - 7669
David Austen-Smith is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Voting & Legislature. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 82 publications receiving 7374 citations. Previous affiliations of David Austen-Smith include University of Rochester & York University.
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Grant-giving to provincial repertory theatres by the arts council of Great Britain: A preliminary analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a progress report from the early stages of some research they are doing into grant-giving by the Arts Council of Great Britain (ACGB) and others to provincial repertory theatres in England.
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Majority preference for subsidies over redistribution
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the effect of subsidy policies on direct income redistribution in economies with mean greater than median income and found that subsidies are strictly majority preferred to redistribution when the gap between median and mean incomes is not "too great".
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In Response to Jurg Steiner's ‘Concept Stretching: The Case of Deliberation’
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore conditions under which deliberators' strategic (descriptive) incentives are aligned with the (prescriptive) advice to tell the truth, and show that such a prescription is relevant only to the extent that individuals might be expected to behave otherwise.
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Sincere Voting in Models of Legislative Elections
TL;DR: In this article, the assumption of sincere voting for one's most preferred candidate is frequently invoked in models of electoral competition in which the elected legislature consists of more than a single candidate or party.
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Cheap Talk and Burned Money
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors augment the standard Crawford-Sobel (Econometrica 1982) model of cheap talk communication by allowing the informed party to use both costless and costly messages.