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Voting Behavior of Physicians and Healthcare Professionals. [PDF]
Introduction: Physicians and other healthcare professionals have critical expertise and important experiences to help shape public policy, yet, historically, have been less likely to engage in the political process as measured by their propensity to vote.
Solnick RE, Choi H, Kocher KE.
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Peers' Race in Adolescence and Voting Behavior [PDF]
Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. teenagers, we investigate how peer racial composition in high school affects individual turnout of young adults. We exploit across-cohort, within-school differences in peer racial composition. One within-school standard deviation increase in the racial diversity index leads to a 2.3 percent increase in
Polipciuc, Maria +2 more
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Voting: A Behavioral Analysis [PDF]
The behavior of voting for a party in an election has important social implications, yet, due to strong mentalistic influences in electoral research, it has rarely been studied from the behavior analytical perspective. In this article a behavioral analysis of voting is presented and a derived behavioral model is empirically tested on data from a Dutch ...
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Politicians’ Theories of Voting Behavior [PDF]
While political scientists regularly engage in spirited theoretical debates about elections and voting behavior, few have noticed that elected politicians also have theories of elections and voting. Here, we investigate politicians’ positions on eight central theoretical debates in the area of elections and voting behavior and compare politicians ...
Lucas, Jack +18 more
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Rational ignorance and voting behavior [PDF]
In a previous paper by the author, a pivotal voter model in which it was predicted that in equilibria with information acquisition every voter was nearly uninformed, and the aggregate cost information acquisition was declined to zero when information aggregation was successful was formulated and analyzed.
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EG-DPoS: Optimized DPoS Consensus Algorithm Based on Evolutionary Game [PDF]
Aiming at the problems of low enthusiasm among voting nodes, bribery from malicious nodes, and the vulnerability of sequential block generation by agent nodes in the delegated proof of stake (DPoS) consensus process, an optimized DPoS consensus algorithm
LIU Yong, DENG Xiaohong, LIU Lihui, SHI Yiran, ZHANG Li
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Voice of the diaspora : an analysis of migrant voting behaviour [PDF]
This paper utilizes a unique dataset on votes cast by Czech and Polish migrants in their recent national elections to investigate the impact of institutional, political and economic characteristics on migrants’ voting behavior. The political preferences
Doyle, Orla, Fidrmuc, Jan
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Voters’ Rationality Under Four Electoral Rules: A Simulation Based on the 2010 Colombian Presidential Elections [PDF]
In this work we analyze the impact of the voting rule on individual behavior. We use a sample of individuals naturally motivated by real candidates. Then, in our methodology we do not induce preferences.
Julián Parada
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Voting behavior and budget stability
The aim of this paper is to analyze how the implementation of the Budgetary Stability Law has affected Political Budget Cycles generated by Spanish local governments.
Cristina Vicente +3 more
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Recent events, such as failed constitutional referenda, low voting turnout in the European Union parliamentary elections, and the 2016 Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom call for a better understanding of people’s voting behavior in relation to the ...
Francesco La Barbera, Icek Ajzen
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