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What voters want : identifying voter preferences for candidates
2021This dissertation is comprised of six standalone articles that provide insights on what type of candidate voters prefer with a particular focus on gender, age affinity, occupation, and political experience (i.e., incumbency). The question of who is elected is one of the most fundamental questions in political science as it pertains to the issue of ...
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Media Information Australia, 1978
Do Liberal voters rely more on newspapers than Labor voters do? Are ALP supporters more tied to radio than to TV? What are the media habits of Australian Democrats? 'What channels: are watched for news by L-NCP and ALP voters? Reprinted with this note are Morgan Gallup data for 1977 which bear on such issues.
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Do Liberal voters rely more on newspapers than Labor voters do? Are ALP supporters more tied to radio than to TV? What are the media habits of Australian Democrats? 'What channels: are watched for news by L-NCP and ALP voters? Reprinted with this note are Morgan Gallup data for 1977 which bear on such issues.
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Voter‐weighted environmental preferences
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2009AbstractThis article examines the political economy of preferences with respect to the environment using a new stated preference survey that presents the first benefit values for national water quality levels. The mean valuation greatly exceeds the median value, as the distribution of valuations is highly skewed. The study couples the survey valuations
Jason Bell, Joel Huber, W. Kip Viscusi
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The Structure of Voter Preferences
The Journal of Politics, 1993Economic models of voting typically assume the transitivity of individual-level preferences. Other conditions, such as single-peakedness or dichotomization, are also sometimes postulated. Despite the ubiquity of these assumptions, there is a paucity of empirical tests using real-world elections with mass electorates.
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The Structure of Voter Preferences
Comparative Political Studies, 1982This article applies preference assumptions derived from the axioms of lexicographic utility to four of Northern Ireland's parliamentary elections. The results are compared to those obtained from application of analogous spatial assumptions. The principal findings are that rational-choice-based voting models are relevant to the Northern Irish ...
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Voters’ Preferences in a Quantum Framework
2017Politics is regarded as a vital area of social science and strongly relies on the assumptions of voters’ rationality and as such the stability of preferences (at least in decisions that are made simultaneously). The phenomenon of divided government that has dominated the US political arena for many election periods over the last 40 years is not ...
Polina Khrennikova, Emmanuel Haven
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Measures of Agreement in Voters’ Preferences
2017The impact that adding varying degrees of internal structure to voters’ preferences has on the probability of observing Condorcet’s Paradox is considered, by defining the restrictions on voters’ preferences on candidates so that the electorate is behaving in accord with each of several models of rational behavior.
William V. Gehrlein, Dominique Lepelley
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Voter preferences, direct democracy and government spending
European Journal of Political Economy, 2013Abstract This article uses unique voting data on 331 federal propositions to estimate voter preferences in Swiss cantons. We document that preferences vary systematically with cantonal characteristics. In particular, cantons whose voters are more conservative, less in favor of redistribution and less supportive of public spending tend to have ...
Patricia Funk, Christina Gathmann
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Union campaign activities and voter preferences
Journal of Labor Research, 1986The impact of campaign activity on voting preferences in union representation elections is investigated using a panel study approach. The context of this study is a four-year, multicampus, university system, in which two faculty unions competed vigorously for representation rights for several years.
J. Malcolm Walker, John J. Lawler
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Effect of Characteristics of the Candidate on Voter's Preference
Psychological Reports, 1980Two experiments were conducted to test the hypotheses that political candidates who are more (a) credible, (b) likeable, (c) demographic-ally similar, and (d) similar in issue stands to the electorate than their opponents will gain more votes in an election. In Exp.
Gary W. R. Patton, Cathleen E. Kaericher
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