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  2. Retrospective cohort study - Wikipedia

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    A retrospective cohort study, also called a historic cohort study, is a longitudinal cohort study used in medical and psychological research. A cohort of individuals that share a common exposure factor is compared with another group of equivalent individuals not exposed to that factor, to determine the factor's influence on the incidence of a ...

  3. Economic voting - Wikipedia

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    In political science, economic voting is a theoretical perspective which argues that voter behavior is heavily influenced by the economic conditions in their country at the time of the election. According to the classical form of this perspective, voters tend to vote more in favor of the incumbent candidate and party when the economy is doing ...

  4. List of psychological research methods - Wikipedia

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    A wide range of research methods are used in psychology. These methods vary by the sources from which information is obtained, how that information is sampled, and the types of instruments that are used in data collection. Methods also vary by whether they collect qualitative data, quantitative data or both.

  5. Theories of political behavior - Wikipedia

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    The voting paradox, for example, points out that it cannot be in a citizen's self-interest to vote because the effort it takes to vote will almost always outweigh the benefits of voting, particularly considering a single vote is unlikely to change an electoral outcome. Political scientists instead propose that citizens vote for psychological or ...

  6. Psephology - Wikipedia

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    Psephology (/ s ɪ ˈ f ɒ l ə dʒ i /; from Greek ψῆφος, psephos, 'pebble') is the study of elections and voting. [1] Psephology attempts to both forecast and explain election results. The term is more common in Britain and in those English-speaking communities that rely heavily on the British standard of the language. [citation needed]

  7. Harris or Trump? The psychology behind how voters choose a ...

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    “A lot of times when people say, ‘They're voting against their interests,’ it often just means they're voting against what you think is their interest,” Humphreys says. “But the way they ...

  8. Election science - Wikipedia

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    Examples of subjects where election science methods are applied include gerrymandering, electoral fraud, suffrage, and voter registration. There is an academic conference [ 4 ] dedicated to the study of election science and the Southern Political Science Association has a sub-conference for the study of election science. [ 5 ]

  9. Coalition government - Wikipedia

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    Retrospective voting has a huge influence on the outcome of an election. However, the risk of retrospective voting is a lot weaker with coalition governments than in single party governments. Within the coalition, the party with the head of state has the biggest risk of retrospective voting. [6]