This study investigates the relationship between environmental attitudes and ‘greenness’ of party choice, moderated by exposure to problems such as incidence natural disasters poor air quality. The choice is operationalised share policy in parties' election manifestos. Voting for greener parties especially important protection because votes are keys national, eventually, global action mitigatin...

Social choice theory is the study of how decisions are made collectively. It examines the idea that, for a given society, the preferences of individuals can be directly aggregated to reflect a quintessential “social preference.” An example of such a preference aggregation method is simple plurality rule, in which citizens vote for a candidate and the candidate winning the most votes is deemed s...

This paper studies the choice between centralisation and decentralisation of ...scal policy in a political economy setting. With centralisation, regional delegates vote over agendas comprising sets of region-speci...c projects. The outcome is ine¢cient because the choice of projects is insu¢ciently sensitive to within-region bene...ts. The number of projects funded may be non-monotonic in the s...

 Students will recognize the importance of voting within a democracy.  Students will conduct a survey of voters in the community.  Students will analyze results of the survey.  Students will suggest ways to increase voter participation.  Students will list steps in registering to vote.  Students will identify various ways to register to vote (local registration, on the Web, through the de...

Abstract We use two-round survey data from 62 elections in 10 countries since 1952 to study the formation of vote choice, beliefs, and policy preferences assess how televised debates contribute this process. Our include 253,000 observations. compare consistency between intention choice respondents surveyed at different points before, then again after, election, show that 17% 29% voters make up ...

Politicians’ perceptions of how citizens decide which party to vote for matter they behave in between elections. Yet, except three older studies, a systematic assessment political actors today conceive citizens’ voting motives is non-existent. This study’s goal fill the empirical lacuna by asking large number Belgian Members Parliament what believe determines choice. It shows that few politicia...

OBJECTIVE: We report the results of a panel Brazilian experts and provide recommendations for management these patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The convened composed by 28 local opinion leaders, addressed 59 multiple-choice questions taking into account published scientific literature their own clinical experience. level agreement among members was qualified as (1) consensus, when at least 75% v...

When election reforms such as Ranked Choice Voting or the Alternative Vote are proposed to replace plurality voting, they offer lengthier instructions, more opportunities for political expression, and mistakes on ballot. Observational studies of voting error rely ecological inference from geographically aggregated data. Here we use an experimental approach instead, examine effect two different ...