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VOTER PREFERENCES, INSTITUTIONS, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM

Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016
The enormous impact that economic freedom can have on economic outcomes makes an understanding of the factors or forces affecting its level paramount. To what extent do citizen preferences regarding the role of government in the economy drive the level of or changes in economic freedom?
George R. Crowley, John A. Dove, Daniel Sutter   +2 more
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An Empirical Economic Analysis of Voters' Preferences

Public Finance Quarterly, 1976
In this study, 1970 census data are employed to analyze the influence of socioeconomic factors on North Carolina local-option sales tax referenda voting. The effect of different socioeconomic variables on voting was predicted using the behavioral assumption that voters pursued their perceived self-interest.
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Voter Preferences

2023
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The spatial and temporal dynamics of voter preference determinants in four U.S. presidential elections (2008–2020)

Transactions in GIS, 2022
Ziqi Li, A Stewart Fotheringham
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Relating Elector to Voter Preferences

2012
Ian Budge, Hans Keman, Michael McDonald, Paul Pennings   +3 more
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Electoral systems and the distortion of voters' preferences [PDF]

, 2008
In this paper I show that in a parliamentary democracy, contrary to common wisdom, under a proportional electoral rule governments do not necessarily represent voters' preferences better than under plurality rule. While voters affect the composition of Parliament, decisions are taken by a subset of Parliamentarians: a coalition of them decides directly
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Candidate Preference, State Context, and Voter Turnout: Comparing Non-Voters and Voters in the 2016 Presidential Election

Forum (Germany), 2021
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The Importance of Candidate Sex and Partisan Preference over Time: A Multiday Study of Voter Decision Making

Journal of Politics, 2020
Tessa Ditonto, David Andersen
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Voter Preferences for Trade Policy Instruments [PDF]

AbstractWe analyze voter preferences for tariffs and production subsidies. The distribution of tax revenues argument shows that voters with high direct tax burdens prefer tariffs to subsidies. The uncertainty argument demonstrates that if actual tariff and subsidy rates are chosen from the set of individually optimal rates then the range of tariff ...
WOLFGANG MAYER, RAYMOND RIEZMAN
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Voter Preference and Behavior in the Presidential Election of 1988

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied, 1993
Bernice Lott
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