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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Partisan bias"”.
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The Consolidation of Power through Electoral Engineering
… an act when electoral reforms are motivated by partisan self-interest; parties create systems for their own electoral benefit, i.e. they would like to maximize their partisan bias (gain as many seats as possible for a given vote share). This is a widely accepted assumption in the literature that …
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Manager Personal Traits and Financial Decisions
… ideologies. I also explore whether this bias among mutual fund managers are beneficial or detrimental to their fund shareholders. The first essay is titled as Cash and Connections: The Importance of CFO Networks. In this paper, I present evidence that firms with Chief Financial Officers …
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Impactful fact-checking for science : communication strategies applying artificial intelligence as the source of information
… of science information and reduce the partisan bias in the evaluation of fact-checking messages in the context of science communication. To that end, two moderated mediation models were constructed and tested. In Study 1, experimental results suggest that AI sources will conditionally …
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Distortion and Revolution in Texas U.S. Congressional Redistricting Politics: 1972-2014
… Hispanic percentage) on a measure of electoral bias, as measured by a metric called distortion during this transition. Distortion is the difference between the percentage of seats won by a party with the percentage of votes it received in a statewide congressional election. Using a general …
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Essays on Mechanisms Underlying Belief Updating with Applications in Wisdom of Crowds
… of (preference-based) motivated reasoning in biased advice-taking. In an incentivized task assessing the accuracy of nonpolitical news headlines, we find partisan bias in advice-taking. We then adjudicate between two possible mechanisms for this biased advice-taking: a preference-based …
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The Soldier and the Citizen: Examining the U.S. Military’s Non-partisan Norms
… dissertation improves our understanding of non-partisan norms in the U.S. military. These norms are an essential part of American civil-military relations because they help ensure the military does not use its latent political power to influence domestic politics or become aligned with a …