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Does median voter income matter? The effects of inequality and turnout on government spending [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines the relationship between economic inequality, electoral turnout and redistributive spending. I use the Current Population Survey to create direct measures of the income of the median voter to investigate its effect on spending and ...
Barnes, Lucy
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How Small Interest Groups Can Win the Outcome of Elections and Polls: Lessons for Countries with Modern and Developing Democracies [PDF]
Westcliff International Journal of Applied Research, 2019 It might sound perfectly obvious that in a real democracy, the majority’s interests will always win against the interests of the minority. Unfortunately, in reality, this is not the case.
Nima S. Salami
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The Nexus Between the Democratic Transition and the Structural Transformation
Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 2020 There are several theoretical and empirical papers on the structural transformation but there is not a study relating structural transformation with the political regime switch in the country.
Deniz Güvercin, Adem Gök
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Political economics and citizens’ engagement in Croatia: a differential analysis
Public Sector Economics, 2023 Based on the Euro Social Survey, we show that Croatians’ values do not predict perfectly their political partisanship. This feature may be a consequence of the lack of interest of Croatian people on politics, which explains the significantly lower ...
Francisco Bastida
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Neutral respondents’ perceptions about geological disposal facilities
Energy Reports, 2021 This paper quantitatively discusses the role of subjective assessment in deciding popular acceptance for a geological disposal facility (GDF) for high-level radioactive waste.
Masashi Nishikawa
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European Journal of Government and Economics, 2018 The current surge of populism in Europe and the United States calls for further analysis using public choice tools. In this article, populism is modelled as a deviation from the normal state of the median voter theorem.
Filipa Figueira
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The Phenomenon of the Freedom Party: the Effect of Newness or the Beginning of a New Value Cleavage?
Politologija, 2021 The article analyzes the reasons of success of the Freedom Party in the 2020 Seimas elections. The case of Freedom Party is particularly interesting as it did not appeal to the median voter like previous new parties, but took a clearly liberal stance on ...
Ainė Ramonaitė
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In uncertainty we trust: a median voter model with risk aversion [PDF]
Financial Theory and Practice, 2011 The principal-agent problem and uncertainty are some of the key factors affecting financial and political markets. Fear of the unknown plays an important role in human decision making, including voting.
Pavel A. Yakovlev
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Evaluating the median voter model’s explanatory power [PDF]
Economics Letters, 2012 Abstract We match individual senators’ voting behavior on legislative proposals with 24 real referendum decisions on exactly the same issues with identical wording. This setting allows us to evaluate the median voter model’s quality with revealed constituents’ preferences.
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South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2021 Background: The South African Constitution protects the right to vote for every citizen. The Electoral Act (No. 73 of 1998) limits registration on the voter’s roll on the basis of being declared of ‘unsound mind’ or ‘mentally disordered’ by the high ...
Felicity Marcus, Yvette Nel
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