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Inferring the Ideological Affiliations of Political Committees Via Financial Contributions Networks
Chen, Yiran - 2017
pairwise difference in ideology groups' connection patterns satisfy a condition known as the Chernoff-Hellinger divergence … categorize the ideological affiliations of the political committees, our estimates match the self reported ideology for 94.36% of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941159
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How Do Voters Matter? Evidence from Us Congressional Redistricting
Jones, Daniel - 2016
How does the partisan composition of an electorate impact the policies adopted by an elected representative? We take advantage of variation in the partisan composition of Congressional districts stemming from Census-initiated redistricting in the 1990's, 2000's, and 2010's. Using this variation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984766
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Competition and Ideological Diversity : Historical Evidence from Us Newspapers
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2012
We study the competitive forces that shaped ideological diversity in the US press in the early twentieth century. We find that households preferred like-minded news and that newspapers used their political orientation to differentiate from competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103522
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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign
Kendall, Chad - 2013
expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … ideology. We find that both valence and ideological messages affect the first and second moments of the belief distribution …, but only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082775
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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics
Morrow, John - 2013
The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074913
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Investor Ideology
Bolton, Patrick - 2019
We estimate institutional investor preferences based on their proxy voting records in publicly listed Russell 3000 firms. We employ a spatial model of proxy voting, the W-NOMINATE method for scaling legislatures, and map institutional investors onto a left-right dimension based on their votes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889476
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What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2010
confirms an economically significant demand for news slanted toward one's own political ideology. Firms respond strongly to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760521
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Good Bye Lenin (or Not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. We exploit the quot;experimentquot; of German separation and...
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Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government
Bolton, Alexander - 2016
A defining feature of public sector employment is the regular change in elected leadership. Yet, we know little about how elections influence careers. We describe how elections can alter policy outputs and disrupt civil servants' influence over agency decisions, potentially shaping their career...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977612
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Identifying Ideology : Experimental Evidence on Anti-Americanism in Pakistan
Bursztyn, Leonardo - 2014
's intrinsic motives for expressing anti-American ideology, in a context with clearly-specified financial costs, but minimal … expression responds to financial and social incentives, and that measured ideology predicts membership in a major anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053477