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Political Studies, 2019 Prior research has consistently identified education as an important correlate of political knowledge, which, many argue, reflects an underlying causal relationship.
Darrel Robinson
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Studies in Communication Sciences, 2018 This article seeks to enrich the normative debate on the advantages and drawbacks of direct democracy through an empirical analysis of individual learning about the contents of ballot propositions during campaigns.
Laurent Bernhard
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Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2019 Türkiye, 24 Haziran 2018 seçimleriyle birlikte fiilen Cumhurbaşkanlığı Hükümet Sistemi’negeçmiştir. Cumhurbaşkanlığı Hükümet Sistemi ile birlikte hem siyasal sistemde hem de seçimsisteminde çeşitli değişimler yürürlüğe girmiştir.
Göksel Göker, Adem Doğan
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen +2 more
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Illusions of Knowledge: Media Exposure and Citizens’ Perceived Political Competence
International Journal of Communication, 2017 Citizens’ willingness to participate in politics is contingent on not only factual political knowledge but their subjective perceptions of competence.
Mathias Weber, Christina Koehler
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Migration Status and Political Knowledge Among Latino Immigrants
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016 This paper invokes a membership-exclusion theoretical model of immigrant integration to investigate political incorporation. Specifically, we examine the extent to which unauthorized migration status is associated with general and particular political ...
Susan K. Brown, Frank D. Bean
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector
Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli +2 more
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Political Knowledge: Assessing the Stability of Gender Gaps Cross-Nationally
International journal of public opinion research, 2019 This article investigates gender gaps in political knowledge by exploiting a pooled dataset containing the four modules of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, thereby allowing the comparison of seven different measurements of political ...
Jessica Fortin-Rittberger
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels +4 more
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