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Sharing Competences: The Impact of Local Institutional Settings on Voter Turnout [PDF]
Institutions are common predictors of voter turnout. Most research in this field focuses on cross-country comparisons of voting systems, like the impact of compulsory voting or registration systems.
Peter Bönisch +2 more
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Social Identity and Voter Turnout [PDF]
This paper uses the unique social structure of Arab communities to examine the effect of social identity on voter turnout. We first show that voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who shares their social group (signified by last name) as ...
Avi Ben-Bassat, Momi Dahan
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Demographics, ideology and voting behaviour:A factor analysis of state-wide ballot measures [PDF]
Formal dimension-reduction techniques are frequently used to interpret data on legislative voting behavior. This study applies one such technique to countylevel election returns on 11 ballot measures in South Dakota’s 2006 general election.
Russell Hillberry
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Repeated median and hybrid filters [PDF]
Standard median filters preserve abrupt shifts (edges) and remove impulsive noise (outliers) from a constant signal but they deteriorate in trend periods.
Fried, Roland +2 more
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Bringing Government Back to the People? The Impact of Political Decentralization on Voter Engagement in Western Europe [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines how political decentralization affects levels of voter engagement. Political actors have often justified processes of political decentralization as means to “bring government back to the people.” While these claims are consistent with
Meguid, Bonnie M.
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Is the public sector too large in a democracy? [PDF]
The public sector supplies a club good financed by either a head tax or proportional taxation on exogenous incomes in a democracy. For a class of utility functions and club quality functions, the optimal club quality is independent of the income ...
Clive Fraser
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Redistribution,Taxes,andthe Median Voter ∗
, 2008 We study a simple model of production, accumulation, and redistribution, where agents are heterogeneous in their initial wealth, and a sequence of redistributive tax rates is voted upon.
Jess Benhabib +5 more
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Electoral Competition with Uncertainty Averse Parties [PDF]
The nonexistence of equilibria in models of electoral competition involving multiple issues is one of the more puzzling results in political economics. In this paper, we relax the standard assumption that parties act as expected utility maximizers.
Sophie Bade
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Median computation in graphs using consensus strategies [PDF]
Following the Majority Strategy in graphs, other consensus strategies, namely Plurality Strategy, Hill Climbing and Steepest Ascent Hill Climbing strategies on graphs are discussed as methods for the computation of median sets of profiles.
Changat, M. +2 more
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Evaluating the Median Voter Model's Explanatory Power
, 2011 We match individual senators' voting behavior on legislative proposals with 24 real referenda decisions on exactly the same issues with identical wording.
Eichenberger, Reiner +2 more
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