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A Simulation Analysis of the Effect of Party Identification on Finnish Parties' Optimal Positions

Papageorgiou, Achillefs - 2010

The Finnish National Election Study of 2003 revealed that in Finland most voters do not identify with parties and are self-described as independents. In this article it is asserted that partisan attachments affect Finnish parties’ optimal positions despite the large amount of independents. To...

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Generous Legislators? A Description of Vote Trading Agreements (Theory and Experiments)

Hortala-Vallve, Rafael - 2009

which our theory predicts 2/3 of the subjects’ behaviour …

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Weighing the Alternatives : Preferences, Parties, and Constituency in Roll Call Voting

Ramey, Adam - 2009

Theories of parties and lawmaking typically require measures of legislators' preferences for empirical analysis. However, existing methods for generating estimates of these preferences presume that legislators care only about their own policy preferences and not about their constituency or party...

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On the Microfoundations of Economic Voting : An Experimental Study

Middleton, Joel A. - 2009

theory of economic voting has achieved near axiomatic status. Yet the microfoundations of economic voting are not entirely … clear. Quattrone and Tversky (1988) posit that prospect theory can explain economic-political correspondences - suggesting … result not predicted by prospect theory. Findings may imply the importance of politicization of economic conditions …

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Voting Across Time and Generations

Jennings, M. K; Stoker, Laura - 2009

This paper uses long-term panel data to explore the implications of an individual’s vote history for their subsequent partisan orientations and voting choices. We consider how recent vote history and lifelong vote history articulate with current partisan identification, and how the development...

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Social Networks as a Shortcut to Information and Correct Voting

Ryan, John Barry - 2009

This paper reports on a small group experiment designed to study how the preferences and expertise of an individual’s social network affect that individual’s ability to vote for the candidate that will provide them with the greater benefit on both valence and issue positions. Formal models...

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Social Voting : How Political Discussion May Improve the Chances of Voting in One's Economic Self-Interest

Pump, Barry - 2009

The extent to which lower-income individuals vote in their economic self-interest matters considerably for building political coalitions and enacting policies that foster egalitarianism and a more representative democracy. If this demographic segment of the population does not vote in its...

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Measuring Electoral Volatility in MMD/SNTV Systems : A Candidate-Level Analysis

Thames, Frank C.; Patterson, Dennis; McMichael, Taylor - 2009

Comparative politics scholars have spent a much time exploring the causes and consequences of electoral volatility, and the result is that much has been learned about what leads both established and emerging democracies to experience electoral volatility. While different measures and factors...

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Unemployment and the Dynamics of Voter Choice : Taking Government Partisanship into Account

Kwon, Hyeok Yong - 2009

This paper explores the dynamic patterns of vote choice induced by individual assessments of the employment situation. More specifically, this paper examines the patterns of vote switching and the factors that drive changes in vote choice. Furthermore, the paper takes government partisanship...

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Re-testing the Second-Order Model of European Parliamentary Elections

Polk, Jonathan; Bakker, Ryan - 2009

Since direct elections to the European Parliament (EP) began in 1979 a number of fundamental questions concerning these events have been discussed and debated. Is vote choice primarily determined by questions of European integration or by domestic political considerations? What explains the...

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