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Measuring issue-salience in voters' preferences
Electoral Studies, 2018Abstract We provide a new approach to the measurement of issue salience that explains how the salience of an issue among voters and the position of the parties on a given issue interact to each other and determine vote choices and aggregate election results. Analyzing the spatial model of voting, we show how voting probabilities can be estimated by a
Stephen Ansolabehere, M. Socorro Puy
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The Image and the Vote Manipulating Voters' Preferences
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1987Concern is often expressed regarding the ability of campaign consultants to shape candidates' images and, thereby, influence electoral outcomes. Despite this concern, little attempt has been made to investigate whether candidates' images can be shaped in a way that affects the vote.
Shawn W. Rosenberg, Patrick McCafferty
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VOTER PREFERENCES, INSTITUTIONS, AND ECONOMIC FREEDOM
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2016The 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 +2 more
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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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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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Metropolitan Latino Political Behavior: Voter Turnout and Candidate Preference in Los Angeles
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2005Matt A Barreto
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