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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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CANDIDATE VALENCE AS A PREDICTOR OF VOTER PREFERENCE
Human Communication Research, 1978The effects of source valence, including its components source credibility, attraction, and homophily, on voter preference were examined in this study. A systematic sample with a random start of 350 registered Democratic voters in Tallahassee, Florida, was used to test the effects of eight dimensions of source valence on voter preference.
PETER A. ANDERSEN, ROBERT J. KIBLER
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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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