The purpose of this article is to investigate the associations between submissive authoritarianism, multiculturalism, and perceived economic threat. More specifically, it explores whether the effects of multiculturalism on authoritarianism are
Dec 2020
The probability of violating Arrow’s conditions
Arrow’s impossibility theorem shows that all preference aggregation rules (PARs) must violate a specific set of normative conditions (transitivity, Pareto, IIA, nondictatorship) over an unrestricted domain of preference profiles. However,
Dec 2018
Postindustrial Cleavages and Electoral Change in an Advanced Capitalist Democracy: The Austrian Case
Theories on post-industrialism generally agree that post-industrial societies are characterized first, a shift from the production of manufactured goods to the production of services, and second by a “new centrality”
Oct 2018
Of Paradigms Won and Lost: The Neo-Corporatist World According to Howard J. Wiarda
Howard J. Wiarda overestimated the staying power of neo-corporatism. In 1997, when he proclaimed that corporatism would be as influential as liberalism and socialism, a number of factors were already
Feb 2016
Polls and Elections: There Is Nothing Wrong with Kansas: The Effect of Race and Economics on Voting Correctly in U.S. Presidential Elections
Are poor whites less likely to vote correctly when they vote for Republican presidential candidates? The rationality of poor white voters is perennially debated in American politics. To date, scholars
Nov 2008
Economic Intelligence and the CIA
Although during the Cold War the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the rest of the American intelligence community dealt primarily with military and political developments in the world (and especially
