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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Disenfranchising America’s Youth: How Current Voting Laws Are Contrary to the Intent of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment [PDF]
, 2014 [Excerpt] “Laws attempting to suppress student voters are not a new advent. Since the Twenty-Sixth Amendment lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen in 1971, states have been passing legislation that has challenged, restricted, and ...
Fearon-Maradey, Sarah
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Putting Students First: Why Noncitizen Parents Should Be Allowed to Vote in School Board Elections [PDF]
, 2019 This Essay addresses whether noncitizen parents of school children should be allowed to vote in school board elections. They are currently prohibited from doing so in all but a dozen jurisdictions in only three states.
Butwin, Jennifer
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U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo +3 more
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Éducation, représentation, tripartisme : la loi du milieu
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2017 Representative democracy faces a dilemma, not to say a contradiction: all citizens are equal but some are more equal than others, whether they are chosen for their greater ability, or whether having been elected without a specific mandate, they have more
Hervé Le Bras
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Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2010 Can we devise mechanisms that allow voters to express the intensity of their preferences when monetary transfers are forbidden? Can minorities be decisive over those issues they feel very strongly about? As opposed to the usual voting system (one person – one decision – one vote), we propose a voting system where each agent is endowed with a fixed ...
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The US hemp market is a new and nascent industry that has been devoid of research for about half a century. This study examined the effects of exogenous shock on price at each phase of the value chain—Farm (hemp biomass), and its impact on prices at other phases of the value chain—Intermediary Processor (crude cannabidiol hemp) and Final ...
Solomon Odiase +2 more
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We examine the consequences of vote buying, assuming this practice were allowed and free of stigma. Two parties competing in a binary election may purchase votes in a sequential bidding game via up-front binding payments and/or campaign promises ...
Asher Wolinsky +2 more
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To Vote or Not to Vote: What Is the Quota?
Discrete Applied Mathematics, 1988 The ``no-show paradox'' describes a situation in which one's vote results in the election of a less preferred candidate (compared to the outcome in the case of abstention). \textit{H. Moulin} [J. Econ. Theory 45, No.1, 53-64 (1988; Zbl 0649.90010)] introduced an axiom requiring a voting rule to never give rise to situations of this type. He proved that
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