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Factors affecting political participation (Jordanian universities students' voting: field study 2017-2018)
Alelaimat, Mohammad Soud - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 8 (2023) 1, pp. 54-67
students, especially their voting in national and local elections. The study examines the impact of gender, age, family income … Jordanian university students in national and local elections. The more the gender varies, the more the voting shifts in favor … different voting in the national and local elections. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014245786
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How Can Voters Classify an Incumbent under Output Persistence
Caleiro, António - 2008
The literature on electoral cycles has developed in two distinct phases. The first one considered the existence of non-rational (naive) voters whereas the second one considered fully rational voters. In our perspective, an intermediate approach is more interesting, i.e. one that considers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295273
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Decision making in politics and economics: 4. Bundestag elections 2009 and direct democracy
Tangian, Andranik S. - 2010
) for the last Bundestag (German parliamentary) elections 2009. It is shown that the Bundestag election winner 2009 - the … Bundestag elections 2009 shows that the voters are little consistent with their own political profiles, disregard party …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302623
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Local Economies and General Elections
Elinder, Mikael - 2006
general elections from 1985 to 2002, using data on 284 municipalities and 9 regions. An increase in regional growth or a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321613
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An Economic Analysis of Voting in Sweden
Jordahl, Henrik - 2001
This paper presents a theoretical model of rational retrospective voting, which is tested empirically on pooled cross-sectional and panel data from the Swedish Election Studies between 1985 and 1994 supplemented with time series on inflation and unemployment. Compared with the cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321778
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The Optimal Degree of Polarization
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto - 2001
In the literature on electoral politics full convergence of policy platforms is usually regarded as socially optimal. Thereason is that risk-averse voters prefer a sure middle-of-the-road policy to a lottery of two extremes with the sameexpectation. In this paper we study the normative...
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The conditional effects of income inequality on extreme right wing votes: A subnational analysis of Western Europe in the 1990s
Jesuit, David; Mahler, Vincent; Paradowski, Piotr - 2008
This paper addresses two major limitations of cross-national research on electoral support for extreme right parties (ERPs) in Western Europe: its almost exclusive focus on national-level data and its failure to examine the role of the social welfare state and social capital. We employ Tobit I...
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Voting for voters: A model of electoral evolution
Barberà, Salvador; Maschler, Michael B.; Shalev, Jonathan - 1998
periods and holds elections at the beginning of each period; one vote is sufficient for admission, and voters can support as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608403
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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland: Das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999
Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000
-wing ?Republikaner? party and the left-wing Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the two recent elections of the European Parliament in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262441
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Partisan impacts on the economy: evidence from prediction markets and close elections
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2006
problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these problems by analyzing movements in economic …-Democrat differential was also observed for the 2000 Bush-Gore contest. Prediction market based analyses of all Presidential elections since …
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