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Cabinet Appointments in the Howard Government 1996 – 2007

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that were associated with cabinet appointment in the Howard Government 1996 – 2007. Broadly, the factors that are cited as important in cabinet appointment in general fall into two categories: the representational and the personal. The representational factors are those that are associated related to an individual’s role as a “representative”....

Are Conservatives Overconfident?∗

Recent studies suggest psychological differences between conservatives and liberals, including that conservatives are more overconfident. We use a behavioral political economy model to show that while this is undoubtedly true for election years in the current era, there is no reason to believe that conservative ideologies are intrinsically linked to overconfidence. Indeed, it appears that in 19...

Liberals vs. Conservatives

John Malcom directed the Student Union plant sale held in LaFortune last week, [photo by Bob Gill] WASHINGTON [AP] Liberal tax activists, facing a heavy sched­ ule of Proposition 13-style initia­ tives and referenda on Election Day next month, are vowing to wrestle the tax issue from conservatives. Their battle cry is a call for “ tax justice,” essentially an increase in corporate tax collectio...

Liberals, conservatives, and conformity

Patterns of conforming behavior were compared for Ss empirically contrasted as conservatives, moderates, or liberals on a politically based Thurstone-type scale. In a split-plot factorial analysis-ofvariance design, liberalism-conservatism of the Ss and political identification of the influence sources were employed as between-Ss variables, while task difficulty opera ted as a within·Ss variabl...

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