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A lottery (or random selection) is often considered to be irrational. However, a qualified lottery can lead to a second‐order rationality on an institutional level. The main idea is to make use of uncertainty, either by exploiting existing fundamental uncertainty or by deliberately enlarging uncertainty through lotteries. In both cases, decision quality may be enhanced by increasing diversity and...
The citizen assembly of the Swiss canton Glarus in 2006 decided to radically reduce the historical number of communes from 25 to three. Studies show that the financial and economic consequences are surprisingly small. This paper analyzes the effects on citizens' vote participation as an indicator of their political involvement. Using the difference‐in‐difference and the synthetic control methods,...