Electoral Outcomes
Personality traits, political efficacy and electoral outcomes: a survey of selected female parliamentary contestants in Kenya
... Russo and Amnä (2014) between November 2010 and Febrauary 2011 investigated the relationship between the personality traits and a variety of online and offline forms of political participation. They used data collected ...
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Education and Electoral Outcomes
... This paper develops a model of the electoral process for analyzing the voters’ choice faced with two parties. A typical voter is concerned with both local governance issues and macro issues. The relative ...
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The Catholic Church, Political Institutions, and Electoral Outcomes in Oaxaca, Mexico
... The study proceeds as follows: First, I discuss prior research on religion and politics in Mexico to show the different positions taken on the role of Catholicism in this nation’s democratization in the 1990s and 2000s. ...
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Electoral Imbalances and their Consequences
... Our results also have important implications for the identification of the sources of the in- cumbency advantage. In our theory, voter attention is positively correlated with the incumbent’s winning probability, ...
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The Relationship between R&D Investment and Dividend Payment Tax Incentives and Their Role in the Dividend Tax Puzzle
... post-conflict electoral designs embrace proportional representation systems to effect power sharing and minority protection in segmented ...toward electoral outcomes that over-represent majorities ...
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Electoral Fraud in Nigeria: A Philosophical Evaluation of the Framework of Electoral Violence
... the electoral management body (EMB) that organized the elections pulled what may pass as an electoral feat in achieving one of the most open, credible, peaceful and transparent elections within Nigeria’s ...
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Institutionalizing Horizontal Accountability. A Conference Report. IHS Political Science Series No. 55, February 1998
... the Electoral Commission is its weak resource base: The Consolidated Fund provided for in the constitution to cover the Commission’s expenses is endowed with only very limited resources, leaving the Commission ...
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Inequality and elections in Italian regions
... Italian electoral dynamics at the regional level appears to have maintained some continuity with the past (Shin and Agnew 2008; Diamanti ...understanding electoral outcomes (Vezzoni ...
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Electoral Systems and Corruption: the Effect of the Proportionality Degree
... the electoral outcome) index; this is especially useful for comparing proportionality across electoral ...an electoral system because of the link between the kind of electoral system and the ...
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Two sword lengths apart: Credible commitment problems and physical violence in democratic national legislatures
... disproportionate electoral outcomes – that is, when electoral votes for parties do not closely correspond to the legislative seats they are ...
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Reconsidering the Trend in Incumbent Vote Percentages in House Elections
... The fundamental issue, then, is whether contested or all districts should be examined. There are several reasons why this exclusion is a very ques- tionable decision. First, if the concern is tracking closeness of ...
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The European Dimension of the Political Representation of Minorities
... and electoral space measured as increased vote share, enhanced capacity to build coalitions and compete, as well as improved organizational capabilities, a measure of positive party ...
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Emergence of Independent Candidates: A Negative Binomial Regression Model of an Indian Parliamentary Election
... FPTP electoral system any time, standard results in game theory indicate that they are more likely to start in a fragmented polity because in such a situation all political parties have incentives to float ...
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To give and to receive: the Australian government's proposed electoral finance reforms
... its Electoral Reform Green Paper: Donations, Funding and Expenditure („Green Paper‟) proposing a variety of reforms to Australia‟s current federal election funding and financial disclosure ...of electoral ...
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More can be Less: Hyper Plurality of Candidates, the Rationality of Electoral Choice and Need for Electoral Reform in India
... whether electoral regulations that block entries of candidates serve the ...the electoral process itself (McKnight, ...their electoral success ...the electoral debate and force the incumbents ...
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Democratic Practice and Democratic Theory
... of electoral democracy in the United States. The electoral deadlock which helped to produce contemporary patterns of political struggle, as we have noted, emerged from the destruction of the nation's ...
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The Mexican Electoral Process: The Perpetuation of Fraud by Restriction of Citizen Access to Electoral Information, 14 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 151 (1995)
... 10 1 The CFE establishes the Federal Electoral Commission 10 2 and states that the citizens and political parties of Mexico shall control the electoral process through [r] ...
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Public budgeting and electoral dynamics after the golden age: essays on political budget cycles, electoral behaviour and welfare retrenchment in hard times
... expenditure outcomes per se are of high conceptual relevance for this ...spending outcomes, careful control variables (see a more detailed discussion below) on these structural drivers (the population share ...
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Electoral and political reforms
... The electoral rolls will be supplied to the Election commission by ...date electoral rolls will always be ready at the banks at time and immediately available to the election ...of electoral rolls is ...
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Against Green minority government: themes and traditions in Tasmanian politics
... to electoral dominance, with Labor holding power now for over a ...higher electoral quota saw Green parliamentary representation drop from four members to ...
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