A model of conflict and leadership: Is there a hawkish drift in politics?
We analyze conflict between a citizenry and an insurgent group over a fixed resource such as land. The citizenry has an elected leader who proposes a division such that, the lower the land ceded to the insurgents, the higher the cost of conflict. Leaders
Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay +2 more
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Facial features influencing political election outcomes and other social events [PDF]
Faces are rich sources of social information, and their characteristics can help people to understand the society better. The outcomes of our most important social decisions depend on our ability to make accurate interferences about the inclinations ...
Fan Xiang
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Political Ideology, Confidence, & Cognitive Ability [PDF]
Political conservativism has been associated with lower cognitive ability, including lower numeracy (math ability) and higher perceptions of their own ability including higher perceived math ability (numeric self-efficacy).
Reiter, Joseph
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What do interviewer intelligence ratings actually measure?
Political scientists interested in studying the political implications of citizens’ cognitive abilities often turn to readily available “intelligence ratings” in the American National Election Studies (ANES).
Matthew P. Motta
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Political Capacity and Corruption Nexus: Re-Examining Evidence for Developing Countries
This article examines the question of whether developing countries with strong political capacity have lower levels of corruption. Despite the ubiquity of literature on corruption, the relationship between a state’s political capacity and corruption has ...
Saranjam Baig +2 more
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Politician personality, Machiavellianism, and political skill as predictors of performance ratings in political roles [PDF]
This study conceptualizes politicians as political workers. It describes a multimethod study with two aims: (1) to determine whether politicians share a latent mental model of performance in political roles and (2) to test hypothesized relationships ...
Silvester, J. +8 more
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Yöneten-yönetilen ayrımının bulunduğu en basit toplumlardan en karmaşık toplumlarda, yönetilenler adına iktidarı kullanan yöneticilerin bu yetkisinin kaynağı, üzerinde çok tartışılan bir konu olmuştur.
Ülkü VARLIK, Banu ÖREN
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Examining the Effect of Political Connections, and Managerial Ability on the Relationship between Audit Quality and Information Asymmetry [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to examining the effect of political connections, and managerial ability on the relationship between audit quality and information asymmetry. Therefore, thre hypotheses were formulated to achieve the study objectives.
Sahel Abaszade, HamidReza Ganji
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Academic Roles, Political Freedoms, and Practical Abilities [PDF]
Verfassungsblog: On Matters ...
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Political Interest, Cognitive Ability and Personality: Determinants of Voter Turnout in Britain [PDF]
This article uses longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) to investigate the determinants of voter turnout in the 1997 British general election. It introduces measures of cognitive ability and personality into the participation literature and finds that they are significant determinants of turnout. It also shows that standard
Denny, Kevin, Doyle, Orla
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