Questions tagged [empirical-studies]
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How strong is the association between the complexity of the electoral process and beliefs in voting fraud?
It's been suggested in a fairly upvoted answer to a related question that the complexity of the electoral/voting process is a main driver in beliefs in voting fraud, at least in developed countries.
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What exactly is a “Race” in relation to Human Taxonomy on the evolutionary line? [closed]
Where does "Race" fit into the human Taxonomy? Does the word Race have a root that connects it to a word that marks it's origin? if not what do we know about the epistemology of the word &...
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Are voters strongly motivated by debt?
A response to a comment here has caused me to wonder: Are voters strongly motivated by increase in debt? Obviously this question is not appropriate for a Q&A stack.
Here is my attempt at ...
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Is there systematic evidence that (campaign) “pivoting” doesn't work as well as it used to?
It's not hard to find punditry like
[Trump's] chief campaign strategist Paul Manafort told Republican leaders that Trump’s been acting all along. “The part that he’s been playing,” Manafort insisted, ...
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Do bipartisan/cohabitation budgets widen the deficit more than one-party budgets?
I've read in a paper that I can't find araing right now that supermajority requirements (in state budgets) tend increase deficit spending because more "pork barrel" interest are included.
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Which (subjective) measure of corruption is the best predictor for an outsider winning a major election?
There's a (somewhat vague) theory that once the electorate starts to believe the political system is corrupt, it is more likely to vote for an outsider (someone who hasn't had a long political career) ...
