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Primary Elections and the Quality of Elected Officials∗

In this paper we argue that the literature underestimates the value of primaries, because it focuses on overall average effects. The value of primaries is likely to vary across situations. We argue that primary elections are most needed in safe constituencies, where one party’s candidate will have a large advantage in the general election – even if that party’s candidate is “low quality”. In sa...

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Heeding More Than the Top Template

We present a method of classifying a pattern using information furnished by a ranked list of templates, rather than just the best matching template. We propose a parsimonious model to compute the class-conditional likelihood of a list of templates ranked on the basis of their match scores. We discuss the estimation of parameters used in the model. The results of maximum likelihood classificatio...

Attention moderates the processing of inhibitory information in primary psychopathy.

Primary psychopathic individuals are less apt to reevaluate or change their behavior in response to stimuli outside of their current focus of attention. According to the response modulation hypothesis, this tendency reflects a lack of responsivity to important peripheral information and undermines adaptive self-regulation. To evaluate this hypothesis, the authors administered a response competi...