I keep running into this word while reading Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman; Neighborhood Effects, which he says a lesser evil to the free market, what do you think? The neighbourhood effect is one of the contextual variables that explains the tendency of a person to vote in a certain direction based upon the relational effects of the people living in the neighbourhood. The voting preference of a neighbourhood tends to be formed by consensus, where people tend to vote with the general trend of the neighbourhood. This consensus is formed by the personal connections a person forms in a community. There also seems to be some socio-economic correlation to voting patterns, and this has also been used to predict voting behavior. -en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbourhood_effect
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:28:15 +0000