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The limits of partisan loyalty: How the Scottish Independence Referendum cost Labour
, 2018 E. Fieldhouse, Christopher Prosser
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Bonds on the Ballot: What Voters (Don't) Know About Debt Financing and Why It Matters
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract American subnational governments commonly require voters to approve bond proposals, reflecting historical concerns about legislative shortsightedness. Yet voters need an understanding of how bond financing works to make choices consistent with preferences. Existing literature makes it unclear whether voters have such knowledge.
Shanna Pearson‐Merkowitz +3 more
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The role of personality, authoritarianism and cognition in the United Kingdom's 2016 referendum on European Union membership. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Sumner C +4 more
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The Power of Renewal: Status Quo Bias Impacts Voter Approval of School Spending Referendums
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract Status quo bias often impacts decisions about private goods and is hypothesized to influence voter choice. This paper offers a clean, direct, real‐world test of status quo bias's effect on voter support for school spending. We take advantage of a unique Minnesota rule that requires ballot language to disclose and distinguish between new and ...
Corey Lang, Rachel Ricchio
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Resilience as a Fiscal Input: County Financial Condition in an Open Systems Framework
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores how community resilience shapes local fiscal health by integrating the Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) into an open‐systems framework of public finance. Using financial data from U.S. counties for fiscal years 2016 and 2021, we examined whether the six BRIC domains explain variation in operating ...
Jungmin Hwang +3 more
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Animal welfare chauvinism in Brexit Britain: a genealogy of care and control. [PDF]
Biosocieties, 2023 Message R.
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Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fiscal governance rules are viewed as prudent tools that promote balanced budgets, lower tax burdens, and ensure modest use of long‐term debt. However, these rules can create incentives that inadvertently worsen the government's long‐term financial position. Focusing on unfunded retiree benefits and long‐term debt, this study finds that states
Sharon N. Kioko
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The symbolic value of drugs may not favour rational policy decisions. [PDF]
Drug Alcohol Rev, 2021 Lemmens PH, Knibbe R.
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
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