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Voters’ Preferences in a Quantum Framework

2017
Politics 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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Effect of Characteristics of the Candidate on Voter's Preference

Psychological Reports, 1980
Two 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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Measures of Agreement in Voters’ Preferences

2017
The 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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Measuring issue-salience in voters' preferences

Electoral Studies, 2018
Abstract 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, 1987
Concern 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, 2016
The 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, John A. Dove, Daniel Sutter   +2 more
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An Empirical Economic Analysis of Voters' Preferences

Public Finance Quarterly, 1976
In 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

2023
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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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Candidate Preference, State Context, and Voter Turnout: Comparing Non-Voters and Voters in the 2016 Presidential Election

Forum (Germany), 2021
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