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Simon Weschle
Researcher at Syracuse University
Publications - 19
Citations - 732
Simon Weschle is an academic researcher from Syracuse University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Private sector. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 16 publications receiving 636 citations. Previous affiliations of Simon Weschle include Duke University & Juan March Institute.
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Attitudes Towards Redistributive Spending in an Era of Demographic Aging: The Rival Pressures from Age and Income in 14 OECD Countries
TL;DR: In this article, the relative impact of age and income on individual attitudes towards welfare state policies in advanced industrial democracies has been investigated, i.e. the extent to which the intergenerational conflict supersedes or complements intragenerational conflicts.
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Attitudes towards redistributive spending in an era of demographic ageing: the rival pressures from age and income in 14 OECD countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative impact of age and income on individual attitudes towards welfare state policies in advanced industrial democracies has been investigated; the extent to which the intergenerational conflict supercedes or complements intragenerational conflicts.
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Learning from the Past and Stepping into the Future: Toward a New Generation of Conflict Prediction
Michael D. Ward,Nils W. Metternich,Cassy Dorff,Max Gallop,Florian M. Hollenbach,Anna Schultz,Simon Weschle +6 more
TL;DR: This article argues for and demonstrates the utility of creating forecasting models for predicting political conflicts in a diverse range of country settings, and suggests that progress in the modeling of conflict research depends on the use of prediction as a gold standard of heuristic evaluation.
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Antigovernment networks in civil conflicts : how network structures affect conflictual behavior
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine game-theoretic treatment of public goods provision in networks with a statistical network analysis to show that fragmented opposition network structures lead to an increase in conflictual actions.
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Two types of economic voting: How economic conditions jointly affect vote choice and turnout
TL;DR: This article developed a model of economic voting that jointly incorporates vote choice and abstention due to alienation or indifference, and showed that a bad economy moves some people to abstain while having the opposite effect on others.