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Segregation and Black Political Efficacy

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2007

The impact of segregation on Black political efficacy is theoretically ambiguous. On one hand, increased contact among Blacks in more segregated areas may mean that Blacks are better able to coordinate political behavior. On the other hand, lesser contact with non-Blacks may mean that Blacks...

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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics

Morrow, John - 2013

model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income processes. The model implies support for redistributive policies … about income dynamics shows a slow and polarizing shift toward redistributive preferences occurs. Simulation using fitted … income dynamics suggests that imperfect information better accounts for the shift back to the left, and offers additional …

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Minority Turnout and Representation under Cumulative Voting. An Experiment

Casella, Alessandra; Guo, Jeffrey; Jiang, Michelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Under majoritarian election systems, securing participation and representation of minorities remains an open problem, made salient in the US by its history of voter suppression. One remedy recommended by the courts is Cumulative Voting (CV): each voter has as many votes as open positions and can...

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Why Does Education Increase Voting? Evidence from Boston's Charter Schools

Cohodes, Sarah; Feigenbaum, James J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

In the United States, people with more education vote more. But, we know little about why education increases political participation or whether higher-quality education increases civic participation. We study applicants to Boston charter schools, using school lotteries to estimate charter...

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Morals as Luxury Goods and Political Polarization

Enke, Benjamin; Polborn, Mattias; Wu, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

voters place on moral rather than material considerations increases in income. This idea both generates new testable …

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Economic Interests, Worldviews, and Identities : Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics

Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...

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Estimating Candidate Valence

Kawai, Kei; Sunada, Takeaki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We estimate valence measures for candidates running in U.S. House elections from data on vote shares. Our estimates control for endogeneity of campaign spending and sample selection of candidates due to endogenous entry. Our identification and estimation strategy builds on ideas developed for...

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Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters : Evidence from a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008–2016

Cantoni, Enrico - 2019

U.S. states increasingly require identification to vote - an ostensive attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a 1.3-billion-observations panel, we find the laws have no negative effect on registration or...

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Inversions in US Presidential Elections : 1836-2016

Geruso, Michael - 2019

Inversions--in which the popular vote winner loses the election--have occurred in 4 US Presidential elections. We show that rather than being statistical flukes, inversions have been ex ante likely since the 1800s. In elections yielding a popular vote margin within one percentage point (which...

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Political Parties as Drivers of U.S. Polarization : 1927-2018

Canen, Nathan J. - 2020

The current polarization of elites in the U.S., particularly in Congress, is frequently ascribed to the emergence of cohorts of ideologically extreme legislators replacing moderate ones. Politicians, however, do not operate as isolated agents, driven solely by their preferences. They act within...

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