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The Preference-Expectation Gap in Support for Female Candidates: Evidence from Japan. [PDF]

Public Opin Q
Kato G, Lu F, Endo M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Policymakers' Preferences Over Public–Private Modes of Service Delivery and Credit‐Claiming: Experimental Evidence

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A survey experiment on US elected local policymakers allows us to test how incumbents strategically use infrastructure projects in their electoral campaigns. Each local official is presented with a scenario in which they are asked to imagine that they are going to run for office again and that a new infrastructure project has just been ...
Eleanor Florence Woodhouse, Paolo Belardinelli, Nathan Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Zero-sum beliefs and the avoidance of political conversations. [PDF]

Commun Psychol
Boland FK, Davidai S.
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating the Algorithmic State: Public Values and Citizens' Preferences of AI‐Driven Public Service Delivery

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public sector increasingly adopts AI‐powered automated decision systems (ADS), understanding how citizens experience and value ADS use in public decision‐making is both normatively and practically important. Therefore, we examine and compare the effects of seven attributes of public values on citizens' support for ADS adoption in two ...
Guimin Zheng, Heewon Lee, Wenhui Li, Yixin Liu, Tian Tang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development and psychometric evaluation of a new genetic attitudes questionnaire in two national samples of United States residents. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Ksiazkiewicz A, Jung S, Schneider S, Qian J, Betchley J, Gunter CA.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Bonds on the Ballot: What Voters (Don't) Know About Debt Financing and Why It Matters

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract American subnational governments commonly require voters to approve bond proposals, reflecting historical concerns about legislative shortsightedness. Yet voters need an understanding of how bond financing works to make choices consistent with preferences. Existing literature makes it unclear whether voters have such knowledge.
Shanna Pearson‐Merkowitz, Joshua J. Dyck, Edward L. Lascher Jr., Corey Lang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contesting an exclusive citizenship regime: the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and its electoral mobilisation in Batman in the late 1970s. [PDF]

Third World Q
Jongerden J, O'Connor F.
europepmc   +1 more source

Other People's Money: Political Embeddedness on Pension Boards, Alternative Assets and Investment Fees

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract State‐administered pension plans report paying roughly $20 billion each year in fees to external asset managers, much of it for high‐cost, high‐risk “alternative” assets such as private equity and hedge funds. These outcomes involve trillions in pension investments that affect the retirement security of millions of public sector workers and ...
Jeffrey C. Diebold, Cody R. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Using AI to Summarize US Presidential Campaign TV Advertisement Videos, 1952-2012. [PDF]

Sci Data
Breuer A, Dietrich BJ, Crespin MH, Butler M, Pryse JA, Imai K.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Power of Renewal: Status Quo Bias Impacts Voter Approval of School Spending Referendums

Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.
Abstract Status quo bias often impacts decisions about private goods and is hypothesized to influence voter choice. This paper offers a clean, direct, real‐world test of status quo bias's effect on voter support for school spending. We take advantage of a unique Minnesota rule that requires ballot language to disclose and distinguish between new and ...
Corey Lang, Rachel Ricchio
wiley   +1 more source