Question

This type of person ends the portmanteau name of a hypothesis by William Fischel, who studied how they change upon owning a home. The assumption that optimal outcomes align with a specific one of these people underlies Alesina and Angeletos’s 2005 paper “Fairness and Redistribution.” Randall Calvert created a multidimensional model of these people, who title a study by Campbell, Converse, Miller, and Stokes that sees them as endpoints of a “causal funnel.” An early (10[1])spatial model (10[1])of these (-5[1])people (10[2]-5[1])fails in more than one dimension and assumes that they have “single-peaked” (10[1]-5[1])preferences. (10[3])These people, who (10[1])V. O. Key insisted (10[1]-5[1])“are not fools,” exist (-5[1])in spite of (10[1])Downs’s paradox. Duncan Black devised a theorem titled for the “median” type of, (10[5])for (10[2])10 points, (10[1])what people (10[1])of interest to political science, (10[1])whose total number determines the turnout rate? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: voters [accept any answer indicating people engaged in voting; accept median voter theorem; accept The Homevoter Hypothesis; accept The American Voter; accept The Responsible Electorate] (Alesina and Angeletos assume that “optimal” redistributive policy “maximizes the utility of the median voter.”)
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2025 ACF Nationals04/19/2025Y24100%0%21%108.17

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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Liam KusalikWaterloo AUC Berkeley A7410
Amogh KulkarniGeorgia StateYale7610
Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsGeorgia Tech78-5
Joseph ChambersVirginiaMichigan7910
Rasheeq AzadNorth Carolina AColumbia A79-5
Rayton LinWaterloo BOttawa7910
Anuttam RamjiUC Berkeley BArizona State91-5
Conor ThompsonIowa StateVirginia Tech9110
Aum MundheRutgersChicago A9210
Gareth ThorlaksonToronto AStanford9210
Kunaal ChandrashekarToronto BHarvard9210
Albert Yingzhi NyangLSEBritish Columbia9510
Ryan RosenbergNYUFlorida9910
Anurag SodhiMITToronto C99-5
Chris SimsNorthwesternWUSTL A103-5
Jakob MyersIndianaIllinois A10610
Liam StarnesChicago BMinnesota11910
Richard NiuCornell ATexas11910
Geoffrey WuColumbia ANorth Carolina A11910
Calvin BostlemanOhio StateNorth Carolina B11910
Henry BonWinona StateVanderbilt11910
Yared TadesseCornell BUCF12010
Teigue KellyPenn StateWUSTL B12010
Isaac MammelMarylandColumbia B12210
Cade ReinbergerRITIllinois B12410
Parth JagtapToronto CMIT12910
Stefan Stealey-EuchnerArizona StateUC Berkeley B13710
Ian LuGeorgia TechJohns Hopkins13710
Charles HangWUSTL ANorthwestern13710