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The effect of subsidising firms on voting behaviour: Evidence from Flemish elections
European Journal of Government and Economics, 2012 Despite an international consensus on the importance to limit State aid spending, large amounts of resources are still devoted to a wide variety of subsidies to firms.
Caroline Buts, Marc Jegers, Dimi Jottier
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Opposition Distinctiveness in Parliaments: A Longitudinal Analysis
Government and OppositionThere are concerns about the distinctiveness of opposition party behaviour in parliaments, but the literature offers mixed findings. This article analyses how distinctive the opposition is from the government in its voting patterns and speech-making in ...
Tom Louwerse, Rick van Well
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Voting on Embryonic Stem Cell Research: Citizens More Supportive than Politicians.
PLoS ONE, 2017 As the public debate over stem cell research continues, the observable voting behaviour in Switzerland offers a unique opportunity to compare the voting behaviour of politicians with that of voters.
David Stadelmann, Benno Torgler
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The US hemp market is a new and nascent industry that has been devoid of research for about half a century. This study examined the effects of exogenous shock on price at each phase of the value chain—Farm (hemp biomass), and its impact on prices at other phases of the value chain—Intermediary Processor (crude cannabidiol hemp) and Final ...
Solomon Odiase +2 more
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Expressive Political Behaviour: Foundations, Scope and Implications [PDF]
A growing literature has focussed attention on ‘expressive’ rather than ‘instrumental' behaviour in political settings - particularly voting A common criticism of the expressive idea is that its myriad possibilities make it rather ad hoc and lacking in ...
Colin Jennings, Alan Hamlin
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Satisfaction and adaptation in voting behavior: an empirical exploration [PDF]
Dynamic models of learning and adaptation have provided realistic predictions in terms of voting behavior. This study aims at contributing to their scant empirical verification.
Martorana, Marco Ferdinando +1 more
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Voting Behavior in the Council of the European Union after the 2004 Enlargement [PDF]
, 2009 This paper explores voting patterns in the Council of the European Union (EU) between May 2004 and the end of December 2006, studying the full set of voting records for this institution.
Mattila, Mikko +2 more
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Cell Segmentation Beyond 2D—A Review of the State‐of‐the‐Art
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Cell segmentation underpins many biological image analysis tasks, yet most deep learning methods remain limited to 2D despite the inherently 3D nature of cellular processes. This review surveys segmentation approaches beyond 2D, comparing 2.5D and fully 3D methods, analyzing 31 models and 32 volumetric datasets, and introducing a unified reference ...
Fabian Schmeisser +6 more
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Social structural model and voting behaviour under the conditions of Czech rural areas [PDF]
From a social viewpoint, Czech rural areas are defined by joint, specific interests by which they differ from the urban environment. In relation to this, this article asks the fundamental question whether class polarization is the background factor of ...
Varvazovska, Pavla, Kopriva, Radek
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