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Mapping employment dynamics in public agencies with payroll data: A methodological framework with an application to Chile. [PDF]

PLoS One
Herrera M, Brieba D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Persuasive lobbying and the value of connections

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The inflow of money into politics and the influence of interest groups on policies are well‐documented, but the monetary value of accessing policymakers is less well‐understood. As a result, it is unclear what inferences researchers can draw from lobbying expenditures about interest groups' strategies and their ideological alignment with ...
Emiel Awad, Clement Minaudier
wiley   +1 more source

Electoral Volatility, Political Sophistication, Trust and Efficacy

, 2012
In this article we investigate voter volatility and analyze the causes and motives of switching vote intentions. We test two main sets of variables linked to volatility in literature; political sophistication and ‘political (dis)satisfaction’. Results show that voters with low levels of political efficacy tend to switch more often, both within a ...
openaire   +1 more source

Predictors of mayoral reelection in Romanian local elections. Long-term analysis 1996-2016. [PDF]

Heliyon
Iațu C, Fedor AD, Grecu SP.
europepmc   +1 more source

Can riots represent? A democratic theory

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Political theory has been perennially concerned with interrogating, identifying, and clarifying the political functions of riots. Yet, political theorists have mostly fallen short of explaining the relationship between riots and democracy, although this is central to the democratic theory of contestation and crucial for evaluating the ...
Alexis Bibeau‐Gagnon
wiley   +1 more source

Moral hazard in fossil-energy-reliant markets delays early adoption of net-zero technologies. [PDF]

iScience
De Weerdt L.
europepmc   +1 more source

Electoral responses to economic crises

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How do voters respond to economic crises: Do they turn against the incumbent, reward a certain political camp, polarize to the extremes, or perhaps continue to vote much like before? Analyzing extensive data on electorates, parties, and individuals in 24 countries for over half a century, we document a systematic pattern whereby economic ...
Yotam Margalit, Omer Solodoch
wiley   +1 more source

Emoji-Driven Sentiment Analysis for Social Bot Detection with Relational Graph Convolutional Networks. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Zeng K, Li Z, Wang X.
europepmc   +1 more source

Mitigating policy uncertainty: What financial markets reveal about firm‐level lobbying

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Elections can lead to substantial policy changes and, thus, are a significant source of risk. Firms can respond to such policy uncertainty by lobbying, but it is hard to quantify whether they do so and, if so, how much lobbying benefits them. We construct a new dataset and leverage investors’ expectations of variability in stock returns in the
Kristy Buzard, Nathan Canen, Sebastian Saiegh   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source