Abstract We explore the dynamics of affective partisanship and policy divergence in a behavioral voting model. Voters are adaptive influenced by partisan affect, while political parties rational office motivated. show that electorate party platforms can be mutually reinforcing, thus providing an explanation for observed co-movement elite polarization recent decades. Whether induced path exhibit...

In this article, we seek to explain when and why political parties pressure their members to vote with the party. We model party cohesion as an endogenous choice of preference alignment by party members. Couched in Krehbiel’s (1996, 1998) pivotal politics model, the formal theory advanced here shows party cohesion to be related to the initial preference alignment of party members, the divergenc...

Past research demonstrated that racial prejudice played a significant role in the 2008 presidential election, but relatively less is known about the relationship between prejudice and public opinion throughout the Obama administration. In the present research, we examined not only whether racial attitudes were associated with evaluations of Mr. Obama and his administration, but also whether the...

This study presents evidence for the mediation effect of political knowledge through political self-efficacy (i.e. internal political efficacy) in the prediction of political participation. It employs an action theoretic approach-by and large grounded on the Theory of Planned Behaviour-and uses data from the German Longitudinal Election Study to examine whether political knowledge has distinct ...

This paper focuses on the balance between central governmental control, autonomy for health care institutions and (quasi)-market mechanisms by examining recent health care reforms in Norway, Denmark and United Kingdom. The reforms involve strengthening of overall central government control, simultaneously representing a decentralized system of management and business-like mechanisms to ensure p...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the origins and evolutionary history of subtype C HIV-1 in Zimbabwe in a context of regional conflict and migration. DESIGN HIV-1C pol sequence datasets were generated from four sequential cohorts of antenatal women in Harare, Zimbabwe sampled over 15 years (1991-2006). METHODS One hundred and seventy-seven HIV-1C pol sequences were obtained from four successive coh...

Timur Kuran has spent much of the last decade investigating the economic and institutional development of the Middle East. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East brings the results of this research together to provide an explanation for the decline in the region’s economic fortunes. Although generations of scholars have sought to understand the Middle East’s economic dec...

The rise of China and India is a triumph of market-based economy. India is not just a small economic version of China. India is the world center of business and high tech outsource to competitively deflate business process and services cost. China becomes the factory of the world to export cheap goods to every corner around the globe. The speed of both nations to “catch up” with the advanced ec...

Some new inequalities related to Jensen and Ostrowski inequalities for general Lebesgue integral are obtained. Applications for $f$-divergence measure are provided as well.