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ABSTRACT Africa's cultural and colonial heritage has profoundly segmented rice markets. Whereas in ancient centers of rice domestication, consumers maintained preferences for local rice consistent with their cultural heritage, preferences have shifted toward imported Asian rice in coastal areas around seaports, due to prior exposure to colonial import ...
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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E-Voting is an innovation in the village-level electoral (Pilkades) process carried out simultaneously in Magetan Regency for the first time in 2019. The purpose of this study was to describe the implementation of E-Voting elections using the theory of ...
Desi Rachawati +2 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Rationality, affect, and vote choice
IntroductionAlthough both rational choice theory and emotion provide some explanatory power for individual voting behavior, few studies to date have simultaneously examined the effects of rationality (cognition) and emotion (affect) on vote choice.
Costas Panagopoulos, Ching-Hsing Wang
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In competitive political contexts, sustaining power is the ultimate goal for political parties. Nominating celebrity politicians can be a double-edged sword for parent brands in attracting votes and influencing voting intention. This study contributes to
Maya A. BouNassif +2 more
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A Theory of Voting Equilibria [PDF]
A voting equilibrium arises when the voters in an electorate, acting in accordance with both their preferences for the candidates and their perceptions of the relative chances of various pairs of candidates being in contention for victory, generate an election result that justifies their perceptions.
Roger B. Myerson, Robert J. Weber
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U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies
ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo +3 more
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Legal Standards of New Technologies of Voting in Electoral Process of Estonia
The article deals with innovative approaches to the study and implementation of the theory and practice of the electoral process of modern technologies of e-democracy and e-voting. The author analyzes legal aspects of e-voting as new technology of voting
Nickolas Sergeyevich Chimarov
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Deliberative Democracy and Incompatibilities of Choice Norms
Deliberative democracy aims at reaching collective decisions through mechanisms that involve flexible opinions, variable alternative sets and information gathering in the process of decision making as opposed to exogenously fixed alternative sets and ...
Hannu Nurmi
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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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