Estimating the effect of campaign spending on senate election outcomes...

American Political Science Review;  June 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......important effect on congressional election outcomes. In light of the substantial effort...the effect of incumbent spending on election outcomes remains an unresolved issue. Accurately...effect of campaign spending on Senate election outcomes. I begin by briefly reviewing the...

At face value.(IN BOX)(Brief article)

Foreign Policy;  September 1, 2007 ;     300 words ......healthcare plans. The most successful method of predicting election outcomes may be pure gut instinct. In a recent experiment at Harvard...added to the short clips, participants' ability to guess election outcomes actually worsened, suggesting that policy pitches interfered...

Corrections

Charleston Daily Mail;  May 18, 2004 ;     22 words ...* Mike Stajduhar, a BB&T Corp. analyst and trust officer, predicts election outcomes. His name was misspelled in a story in Monday's Daily Mail.

A growing diversity gap in the United States could lead to more 2000-like...

The Futurist;  November 1, 2003 ;     55 words ...A growing diversity gap in the United States could lead to more 2000-like election outcomes. States like California are becoming more diverse in terms of ethnicity, age, and religion, while homogeneous states like Vermont...

A two-stage model of the effect of economic conditions on election...

Atlantic Economic Journal;  June 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ......conditions are an important determinant of election outcomes. A growing economy is typically thought...papers relate economic conditions to election outcomes in Canada [Archer, 1987; Archer and...economic conditions actually affect election outcomes. Some researchers have found ...

Can accurate knowledge reduce wishful thinking in voters' predictions of...

The Journal of Psychology;  May 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......thinking in voters' predictions of election outcomes (Frenkel & Doob, 1976; Granberg...to make predictions about game or election outcomes. Effects of substantial magnitudes...as possible in predicting game and election outcomes had a very small effect in reducing...

And here is your next president.(prediction of election outcomes)

The Economist (US);  December 23, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Reagan's 1980 victory by a mile. Most models assume that election outcomes are related to the state of the economy. They may use opinion...assumes the strongest link between economic performance and election outcomes, though he also makes some allowance for the influence...

Model president: economists design models to help foretell presidential...

Builder;  October 1, 2004 ;     502 words ......generally is a dominant factor in election outcomes. INCUMBENCY MATTERS The predictive...begin by establishing the impacts on election outcomes of incumbency length of time in office...economy carries a lot more weight in election outcomes than incumbency, party affiliation...

(book review)

Presidential Studies Quarterly;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......why presidential campaigns affect election outcomes. The American Campaign provides empirical...how campaigns affect presidential election outcomes. Although The American Campaign is...measured as the difference between the election outcomes and what is predicted in a forecasting...

A logistic regression analysis of union election outcomes in warehousing

Journal of Business Logistics;  January 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......examined the determinants of union election outcomes in warehousing, that is the purpose...factors hypothesized to influence election outcomes. Then, methodology and results sections...seven variables that could influence election outcomes: (1) the number of unions running...

The role of issues in the 2000 U.S. presidential election.

Presidential Studies Quarterly;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......election. Some scholars suggest that election outcomes are the result of long-term factors...can accurately predict presidential election outcomes six months or more in advance of...and our explanations for specific election outcomes. Notions of representation are also...

Toward a test of Wheeler's "integrative theory" in six union election...

Industrial Relations (Canadian);  June 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ......policymakers, lending saliency to election outcomes as a subject of study. Research at...particular variables that are related to election outcomes. However, in contras to the individual...toward a useable theory of union election outcomes so that research at this level of...

Taxes, transfers, and voter behavior in U.S. midterm elections.

International Advances in Economic Research;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......payments on midterm congressional election outcomes during the 1946-2002 period are examined...affect the US midterm congressional election outcomes is a highly controversial issue...important determinants of midterm election outcomes. Later Tufte [1978] reached the same...

Vote Share and Return Rates: A Comparison of Two Measures of Election...

Atlantic Economic Journal;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......paper compares two measures of House election outcomes: return rates and vote share for...macroeconomic fluctuations influence House election outcomes, researchers typically measure poll...impact of economic conditions on election outcomes may have missed the influence that...

Letter: Voters in despair

The Independent - London;  May 12, 2001 ;     128 words ......Macintyre points to Michael Ancram's brutally honest remarks about the few thousand voters in the marginal seats on whom election outcomes turn ("Join a TV debate, Mr Blair, or stop moaning about apathy", 10 May). The Labour Party's decision to produce only...