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Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2018 The study of intertemporal decision-making is an interdisciplinary scientific topic of economics, psychology, and neuroscience. Most of these studies focus on individual intertemporal decisions, but little is known about the relationship between groups ...
Manami Tsuruta, Keigo Inukai
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
David Stadelmann +2 more
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The Principle of Minimum Differentiation revisited: Return of the median voter [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019 We study a linear location model (Hotelling, 1929) in which n (with n ≥ 2) boundedly rational players follow (noisy) myopic best-reply behavior. We show through numerical and mathematical analysis that such players spend almost all the time clustered together near the center, re-establishing Hotelling's " Principle of Minimum Differentiation " that had
Hanaki, Nobuyuki +2 more
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