Rethinking Why People Vote: Voting as Dynamic Social Expression.
Traditional models of why people vote conceptualize voting as a static, self-interested decision.
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Rethinking Why People Vote: Voting as Dynamic Social Expression
Book abstract: In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral finance, labor contracts, philanthropy, and the analysis of saving
What Does “Intending to Vote” Mean?
Please see RWP13-010 (April 2013) for the updated version of this working paper.
The Quality of Governance in China: The Citizen’s View
Are China’s citizens sufficiently satisfied to reduce potential challenges to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule?
Schooling, Political Participation, and the Economy
We investigate how the link between individual schooling and political participation is aff ected by country characteristics.
The Morality of Killing in War: Some Traditional and Nontraditional Views
Death has long been a pre-occupation of philosophers, and this is especially so today.
To Them That Hath’…News Media and Knowledge Gaps
Scholars continue to debate what citizens know about politics, whether ordinary people lack the capacity to make rational and informed choices in a democracy, and what voters learn from election campa
Are Ballot Initiative Outcomes Influenced by the Campaigns of Independent Groups? A Precinct-Randomized Field Experiment
Ballot initiatives are consequential and common, with total spending on initiative campaigns in the US rivaling that of Presidential campaigns.
A Précis of On Global Justice, With Emphasis on Implications for International Institutions
The two traditional ways of thinking about justice at the global level either limit the applicability of justice to states or else extend it to all human beings.
Khadafy Son Should Be Tried by Libya
The new Libyan government has plenty of worries. There was the deadly attack on the US consulate in Benghazi.
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