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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?
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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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Metropolitan Latino Political Behavior: Voter Turnout and Candidate Preference in Los Angeles
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2005Matt A Barreto
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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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