Informed voters and electoral outcomes: a natural experiment stemming from a fundamental information-technological shift

Sanders, Shane; Potter, Joel; Ehrlich, Justin; Perline, Justin; Boudreaux, Christopher J.

doi:10.1007/s11127-021-00884-z

Cited by 4 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 23 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…A player's WAR value is defined as the number of additional wins his team achieved over and above the number of expected wins the team would have if that player were substituted with an average, or "replacement-level," player. Recent work (Sanders et al 2021) has argued WAR's usage and rapid popularization as a statistic informed baseball MVP voters from 2004 onward. We identify the WAR period from 1999 onward because while WAR had an immediate impact on MVP voting beginning in 2004, we must account for the fact that 2004 is when players who retired in 1999 became eligible for the HOF.…”

Section: Measures 13mentioning

confidence: 99%

Union Activism and the Baseball Hall of Fame Voting Process: Labor-Management Conflict and Media Bias

Hinkel

McHugh

2021

Labor Studies Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Media bias is well documented in the industrial relations domain. This paper extends this research by exploring whether union participation among former professional baseball players affects the likelihood of moving through two stages of the selection process for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame (HOF), a selection process controlled by sports media. At the HOF ballot inclusion stage, union activism increased position players’ and pitchers’ likelihoods of inclusion, regardless of time period. Conversely, at the HOF voting stage, position players who were union representatives during labor-management conflict (i.e., strikes and lockouts) received significantly less votes than non-activists, while position players who were representatives during labor-management cooperation received significantly more votes. Union activism did not affect pitchers at this stage. We conclude that union activists can be subject to negative media bias during labor-management conflict that, in turn, negatively affects post-employment outcomes.

show abstract

Section: Measures 13mentioning

confidence: 99%

Union Activism and the Baseball Hall of Fame Voting Process: Labor-Management Conflict and Media Bias

Hinkel

McHugh

2021

Labor Studies Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Several other papers utilize the relatively stylized nature of sport as a laboratory to understand welfare aspects of collective choice and policy (see, e.g., Boudreau et al, 2018; Kaminski, 2019; Sanders et al, 2021 or Shughart & Goff, 1992). Oliver (2004) analyzes the factors that determine team success, the role of defensive specialists, and the efficiency of individual players.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy and Policy Response on the Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Three-Point Line Extension in Basketball

Ehrlich

Ghimire

Sadler

et al. 2022

Journal of Sports Economics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper considers recent and historical changes in the three-point line distance at the NCAA and NBA levels as an example of policy change with highly-measurable outcome(s). The paper presents several empirical tests describing a point-maximizing basketball team's optimal allocation of two-point and three-point shots. It does so primarily in the context that the NCAA Men's Basketball three-point line was extended from 20′9″ to 21′9″ in advance of the 2019–20 season, and similar analysis for the NBA in the 1990s. We find that a three-point line extension significantly lowers three- and two-point shot proficiency, while decreasing (increasing) three-point (two-point) shot volume.

show abstract

Knowledge of the temporal structure of events in relation to autistic traits and social ability

Hannah

Brown²,

Hall-Bruce³

et al. 2022

Acta Psychologica

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Informed voters and electoral outcomes: a natural experiment stemming from a fundamental information-technological shift

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Union Activism and the Baseball Hall of Fame Voting Process: Labor-Management Conflict and Media Bias

Union Activism and the Baseball Hall of Fame Voting Process: Labor-Management Conflict and Media Bias

Policy and Policy Response on the Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Three-Point Line Extension in Basketball

Knowledge of the temporal structure of events in relation to autistic traits and social ability

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About