General Elections
THE MEDIA AND THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS IN NIGERIA
... 1 General Elections showed that 64% of Nigerians adjudged the coverage as unfair among the various parties and candidates as against 34% who rated the performance ...2011 elections in Nigeria ...
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The Role of the Civil Society in Promoting Credible Elections in Nigeria: Lessons from the 2015 General Elections
... Thus, elections help confer legitimacy on governments and they help facilitate peaceful transfer of power from one government to ...however, elections have proved to be the albatross to democratic ...
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Party loyalty at referenda and general elections: evidence from recent Irish contests
... A large group of voters consistently abstains and loyalty to party seems higher at General Elections than at referenda or Presidential contests... I n the next section the characterisati[r] ...
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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, HATE SPEECH AND THE 2015 NIGERIAN GENERAL ELECTIONS
... This study seeks to ascertain the implications of freedom of expression and hate speech in the 2015 general elections in Nigeria. This study is situated within the context of historical and descriptive ...
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A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE VOTING BEHAVIOUR OF ELECTORATE IN NIGERIA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS
... Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua led the election in North-West, his geopolitical zone. Out of total votes of 9,475,377 cast in the area, he polled a total of 5,237,023 votes which represented 55.27 per cent (INEC, 2007:34) ...
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Music, Musicians And Politics: The Case Study Of The Nigerian 2015 General Elections
... 2015 general elections and after “MASU GUDU SU GUDU”, this was a song done by Dauda Kahutu Rarara, a northern born music artist who became famous due to the sensitivity of the lyrics in the ...
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The Political Economy of the Postponement of Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections: Effects, Implications and Lessons
... previous elections had been doubted, though the situation has been improving ...2015 General Elections earlier slated for 14 th February and 28 th February, 2015 for the national elections ...
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5. Diaspora Voting In Nigeria’s Elections: An Analysis Of The Abike Dabiri-Erewa Bill Of 2012 And The Effectiveness Of It’s Possible Inclusion Into The 2019 General Elections.
... Nevertheless, the introduction of the Bill has generated thorny debates among scholars, policy analysts, political commentators and Parliamentarians. Some have argued that the promulgation of the Bill into law is ...
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One Election, Two Victories: Ghana’s 2016 General Elections Revisited
... 2016 general elections in Ghana, will equally be remembered by peace loving Ghanaians as the most frightening and ugly spectacle of threatened political turbulence and contention in the aftermath of ...2012 ...
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Poverty and Voting Trend in Tanzania From 1990 to the 2010 General Elections
... competitive elections, and voters’ drifting away to alternative political parties especially in the parliamentary ...2010 general elections are from the opposition, which is equal to 63%! This means ...
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Positive and negative campaigning in primary and general elections
... his general election ...than general elections, an ex- tended discussion develops the consequences of asymmetries between primary ...rival’s general election ...candidate elections, the ...
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Election Data Analytics: Analysis of 2015 General Elections in Nigeria
... Abstract—2015 General Elections conducted in Nigeria is seen to be the most credible election since the inception of the democratic governance in ...
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Voter Behaviour in General Elections in Kenya, 1992-2007: Implications for the Development of Liberal Democracy
... There are admittedly other ways of studying voter behaviour but the most direct and often the most valid way of explaining why people vote the way they do is to ask them (Niemi, 2010). Pursuant to this tradition, survey ...
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Growing Civic Awareness – Symptomatic Rehearsal of True Democratic Dividend: Lessons from Nigeria’s General Elections of 2007
... of elections in Nigeria”, But the striking part of the NDI’s report is the one relating to the judiciary, legislature, civil society and vibrant media which it believes gave rise to ...the elections, adding ...
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The Kenyan general elections of 1997: implementing a new model for international election observation in Africa
... For logistical matters the EOC contacted thé Electoral Commission of Kenya (for example on provision of thé Kenya Election Manual and thé location of polling stations). It is thought tha[r] ...
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The Kenya 1997 general elections in Maasailand: of 'sons' and 'puppets' and how KANU defeated itself
... Now the Maasai history of political infighting had shifted from Keen versus Oloitiptip to a major fight between the Kajiado and Narok Maasai leaders, and both cabinet ministers William o[r] ...
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Campaigning and advertising: an evaluation of the components of constituency activism at recent British General Elections
... 1987 general election, in those constituencies for which Seyd and Whiteley had data on campaign activity by the Labour ...in general and additional spending on advertising in particular influenced the ...
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Ballot order effects: an analysis of Irish general elections
... Recall elections, find minor party candidates can increase their share of the votes by between 2 and 4 percentage points when listed first on the ballot paper, with no effects for major party ...
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The 2018 Malaysian General Elections: the return of Mahathir and the exit of UMNO
... In coming years, 9 May will be regarded a watershed moment in Malaysia’s political history; on the same level as the 13 May 1969 race riots. After 61 years of uninterrupted rule by the Malayan Alliance, and its ...
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The Accuracy of Pre-Election Polling of German General Elections
... presidential elections in 1948 and 1996 (Mitofsky 1998), the election of the British House of Commons 1992 (Lynn/Jowell 1996: 22), the French presidential election in 2002 (Durand et ...
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