Between 1994 and 2004, New York State voters returned a Republican governor but always cast a majority of the popular vote in favor of the Democratic candidate in the presidential election. This paper exploits those elections in an effort to understand voters' motivations to switch party...

Between 1994 and 2004, New York State voters returned a Republican governor but always cast a majority of the popular vote in favor of the Democratic candidate in the presidential election. This paper exploits those elections in an effort to understand voters' motivations to switch party...

We use OLS cross-country regressions and a competitive neural network approach to evaluate the performance of macroeconomic and political-economy data in assessing economic freedom. Our results point to a reasonable performance of the cross-sectional approach in explaining economic freedom...