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Personal Finances and Voting Behavior
American Politics Quarterly, 1981Four major shortcomings of existing studies of the presumed linkage between personal economic circumstances and voting decisions are discerned. These shortcomings leave open the possibility that hypotheses premised on "rational economic man" which have received minimal empirical support to this point may nonetheless be valid.
Lee Sigelman, Yung-Mei Tsai
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Representation, Spending, and the Personal Vote
2014This introductory chapter provides an overview of how political representation occurs on government spending decisions—one of the most consequential powers of government. Political representation in Congress is, in large part, about how elected officials decide how to spend federal money.
Justin Grimmer +2 more
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District Complexity and the Personal Vote
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2012Incumbents tend to win with higher margins in less ideologically constrained districts. I argue that incumbents are advantaged by this electoral landscape in part because they work harder to cultivate a personal vote. Utilizing data on earmarks, I find that despite winning with a larger margin of victory, these incumbents act much like their colleagues
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Abstract ‘One person, one vote’ (OPOV) is a widely accepted axiom of democratic theory. But it is often left undefined, and when we look for definitions, we find dissensus without debate. Worse yet, this chapter argues, none of the four prominent accounts of OPOV in political science, law, and philosophy identifies a minimal, formal ...
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Do persons with dementia vote?
Neurology, 2002To examine whether patients with dementia voted in the 2000 US Presidential Election, the authors surveyed 75 caregivers of patients with dementia. A substantial portion of patients with mild to moderate dementia voted on their own at a voting booth.
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Partisan Dealignment and Personal Vote-Seeking in Parliamentary Behaviour
Political Studies, 2022Thomas G Fleming
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The importance of personal vote intentions for the responsiveness of legislators: A field experiment
European Journal of Political Research, 2021Damien Bol +2 more
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Capturing vote-seeking incentives and the cultivation of a personal and party vote
Electoral Studies, 2021Brian F Crisp +2 more
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