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An Empirical Economic Analysis of Voters' Preferences
Public Finance Quarterly, 1976In 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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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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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, 1993Bernice Lott
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Metropolitan Latino Political Behavior: Voter Turnout and Candidate Preference in Los Angeles
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2005Matt A Barreto
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