How do senators vote? Disentangling the role of voter preferences, party affiliation, and senator ideology

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Senator voting records are examined in terms of how officials define policy positions based on state electorate preferences, supportive constituent preferences, national party ideology and personal preference or ideology. Voter preferences and national party line conditioned senator voting patterns, although the senator's ideology emerged as the more vital component. Voter preferences accounted for only 25% for senator utility functions.

Elections, Congressional candidates, Party affiliation

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Guns, violence and the efficiency of illegal markets

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An analysis of the relationship between violence, guns and allocation of resources in an illegal setting reveals that the predictability of fight outcomes has a strong positive relationship with efficient resource allocation. The study also shows that lethality of weapons has an indeterminate impact on violence costs with fight outcome predictability as the factor with the most probable impact.

Economics, Social aspects, Analysis, Underground economy, Gun control, Organized crime

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Growing up in the projects: the economic lives of a cohort of men who came of age in Chicago public housing

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The economic status of 90 young men who came of age in a Chicago public housing project was studied by an economist and an ethnographer. The researchers were able to interview the men and people who knew them. Three-fourths are unemployed but some who were gang members have done well in illegal activities.

Illinois, Economists, Statistical Data Included, Research, Public housing, Urban poor, Social economics, Socioeconomics, Gang members

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