Questions tagged [empirical-studies]
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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) ...
