Differences between national elections and referendums
Comparing the influence of socioeconomic factors on participation in national elections and referendums
... of referendums is growing in Europe, especially on issues relating to European ...representative elections, as the participatory gap between members of lower and upper social classes, are also ...
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A Tale of Two Elections? - Differences in Media Representations between the European Parliament Election and National Election
... vital differences between the two elections such as the different election issues discussed and the varying levels of importance attached to each election in the ...EP elections in other ...
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EU related referendums = second order elections? A Dutch single case study
... Parliament elections did not represent much more than nine simultaneous national second-order ...Second-order elections are in this case elections which are seen by the public as less ...
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Developing discourse? National referendums and news coverage of the European Constitutional process
... The UK, on the other hand, was a significantly different case. To begin, its media system displays the key features of the 'North Atlantic' or 'Liberal' model, characterised by the mass circulation of newspapers, and by ...
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Electoral participation in Turkish national and local elections
... of national and local elections within the same dataset also enables this study to observe the relationship between these ...in national elections is higher than the local ...Turkish ...
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The role of partisanship in British referendums : a comparative study of the 1975 EEC and the 2016 Brexit referendums
... 3.2 Operationalization of the main concepts and data collection methods By testing the two hypotheses I want to find out whether party identification still plays as an important role as it did over 40 years ago in the ...
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The Effects of Gender Quotas in Latin American National Elections
... While the justice argument is more concerned with representation per se, having different experiences or interests implies that men and women may have different preferences over policy. However, despite ...
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Bringing the policy in: a new typology of national referendums
... all referendums, the typology can be used in comparative research both as a dependent variable to uncover the factors that could explain the variation in policies subjected to referendums and as an ...
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The Importance of Candidates' Websites in Swiss National Elections between 2007 and 2011
... the national parliamentary elections in Switzerland, which might be increasing, but is still comparably low, might be the decisive structural characteristic in the Swiss context, which prevents more ...
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Marriage on the Ballot: An Analysis of Same-Sex Marriage Referendums in North Carolina, Minnesota, and Washington During the 2012 Elections
... imbalance between treatment and control ...balance between the treatment and control groups, researchers conducting observational or quasi-experimental work have no control over the distribution of the ...
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Politics and society between elections
... The question of ‘identity’ in India has significantly manoeuvred around national and regional identities. In many ways, this is somewhat unique to Indian society where regional and linguistic identities have ...
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The Future of Relations Between Kurdish Political Parties Following the 2018 Iraqi National Elections
... Iraqi national elections were a period in which some of the problems plaguing Iraq and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq today ...Iraqi national elections has created a new political reality by ...
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Belgium: Towards a regionalization of national elections?
... Belgium is nowadays composed of six territorially overlapping fed- erated entities: three regions and three communities (article 1 of the constitution). Belgian federalism is unique not only because it comprises two ...
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The Allocation of Public Goods and National Elections in Ghana
... evidence that the DACF has been targeted at districts voting for the opposition party (except in 2003). This result seems counterintuitive and remains unexplained. We rst show that her latter paradoxical result is not ...
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Stock market volatiltity around national elections
... link between the magnitude of the election shock and the explanatory variables mentioned above also seems to be uncontroversial since these variables retain their statistical significance in alternative ...
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National Assembly Elections 2015 FACT SHEETS
... In all constituencies voters will receive one ballot paper to elect a candidate to represent either a political party or an independent candidate. Lesotho has adopted the Mixed Member Proportional Representation model ...
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The press, national elections, and the politics of belonging in Nigeria
... 3.8.0 THE SEARCH FOR CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK The objective of this section is to consider democratic models and begin the proposal of a model that may serve as a fit for a conflict-prone pluralistic political environment ...
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Economic performance and turnout at national and local elections
... 10 data. Data on population by age are obtained by assuming a constant growth rate for the period 1979-1989, on the basis of the 1970 and 1981 censuses; for the remaining years annual data was acquired from INE’s ...
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Stock Market Volatility around National Elections
... interplay between politics and stock prices in meaningful ...Since elections are essentially rare events, the single-country approach leads to a small sample and many statistical problems specific to ...
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Does the World Economy Swing National Elections?
... reward national leaders who are more competent economic managers, or merely those who happen to be in power when the world economy booms? According to rational voting models, electors should parse out the state of ...
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