Search Results - subject:"preference falsification"

Solid support or secret dissent? A list experiment on preference falsification during the Russian war against Ukraine

Chapkovski, Philipp; Schaub, Max - In: Research & Politics 9 (2022) 2, pp. 1-6

to estimate the extent of preference falsification with regard to support for the war by comparing the experimental … the war and significant levels of preference falsification: when asked directly, 71% of respondents support the war, while … this share drops to 61% when using the list experiment. Preference falsification is particularly pronounced among …

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Political correctness and elite prestige

Hauk, Esther; Ortega, Javier - 2022

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How accurate are surveyed preferences for public policies? Evidence from a unique institutional setup

Funk, Patricia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

Opinion polls and other surveys are used to capture public sentiments on a variety of issues. If citizens are unwilling to reveal certain policy preferences to others, surveys may fail to characterize population preferences accurately. The innovation of this paper is to use unique data to...

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Centralized institutions and cascades

Rubin, Jared - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Why do sudden and massive social, economic, and political changes occur when and where they do? Are there institutional preconditions that encourage such changes when present and discourage such changes when absent? I employ a general model which suggests that cascades which induce massive...

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An Agent-Based Model of Centralized Institutions, Social Network Technology, and Revolution

Makowsky, Michael D.; Rubin, Jared - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2011

Recent uprisings in the Arab world consist of individuals revealing vastly different preferences than were expressed prior to the uprisings. This paper sheds light on the general mechanisms underlying large-scale social and institutional change. We employ an agent-based model to test the impact...

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Political attitudes under repression: evidence from North Korean refugees

Noland, Marcus; Haggard, Stephan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

What do citizens of highly repressive regimes think about their governments? How do they respond to high levels of repression? This paper addresses these questions by examining the political attitudes of North Korean refugees. Unsurprisingly the evaluations of regime performance are negative,...

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Preference Falsification in Teaching

Kinsella, Stephen - In: Econ Journal Watch 6 (2009) 3, pp. 352-358

one does not believe, and argues this is preference falsification writ large. The act of teaching equilibrium business …

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Confession of an Economist: Writing to Impress Rather than Inform

Hakes, David R. - In: Econ Journal Watch 6 (2009) 3, pp. 349-351

In this paper I confess the following sin: I deliberately complicated a piece of research to advance its prospects of being published.

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Capitalistic Competition as a Communicative Community - Why Politics Is Less “Deliberative” than Markets

Wohlgemuth, Michael - Ratioinstitutet - 2004

deliberation, and problems of “cheap talk” (preference falsification, opinion cascades, enclave deliberation). In order to make …

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