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The spatial and temporal dynamics of voter preference determinants in four U.S. presidential elections (2008–2020) [PDF]

open access: yesTransactions in GIS, 2022
Political and social processes that shape people's voting preferences might be linked to geographical location, varying from place to place, and operating at local, regional, and national scales.
Ziqi Li, A Stewart Fotheringham
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Discussion and the Regionalization of Voter Preferences

2020
This chapter extends the discussion of the previous chapter and focuses on larger subnational units. It illustrates how political discussion explains the geography of the vote across states and entire subnational regions. Political discussion during the Brazil 20144 and Mexico 2006 campaigns drew many voters toward the political leanings of their ...
Andy Baker, Barry Ames, Lúcio Rennó
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The swing voter's curse with adversarial preferences

Journal of Economic Theory, 2007
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Jaehoon Kim, Mark Fey
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What voters want : identifying voter preferences for candidates

2021
This 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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Voters' Media Preferences

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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Voter‐weighted environmental preferences

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2009
AbstractThis 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, 1993
Economic 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, 1982
This 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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Voter preferences, direct democracy and government spending

European Journal of Political Economy, 2013
Abstract 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, 1986
The 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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