General (National) 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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Poverty and Voting Trend in Tanzania From 1990 to the 2010 General Elections
... six general elections under one-party was more than ...multiparty elections with the exception of 2010 general elections where it dropped into all time low of only 43% (Tanzania ...
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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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A GEOPOLITICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE VOTING BEHAVIOUR OF ELECTORATE IN NIGERIA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTIONS
... its general objective an examination of the impact of environmental (geographic) factors on the electoral decisions of Nigerian ...2015 general elections; and (iii)explain the effect which sectional ...
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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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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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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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FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, HATE SPEECH AND THE 2015 NIGERIAN GENERAL ELECTIONS
... that elections have been a recurring source of disputes, strong arm tactics, crises and conflict thereby making Nigerians apprehensive each time elections is ...
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The Role of the Civil Society in Promoting Credible Elections in Nigeria: Lessons from the 2015 General Elections
... 2015 general elections in ...that general elections in Nigeria had always resulted into violent conflict, the consequences of which had resulted to the terminations of the first two republics ...
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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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Positive and negative campaigning in primary and general elections
... then general elec- tion campaigns are more negative than positive because candidates only care about ...the general election from positive primary campaigning; and primary losers harm a rival’s ...
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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
... 2007 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), we presently explicate herein how the current practice of democracy in Nigeria has yielded (perhaps unexpected) benefits in ...
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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 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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Attitude of Voters Towards Elections in Morogoro Municipality: A Reflection on 2015 General Election in Tanzania
... 2015 General Elections in Tanzania has witnessed 23 161 440 voters registering with only 15 589 639 turning out for voting marking ...in general elections in Morogoro municipality to better ...
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CORRUPTION AND ELECTORAL PROCESS IN NIGERIA: EXAMINING THE 2015 GENERAL ELECTION
... 2015 General Elections was reported to have been free, fair and credible with a better civil liberties in terms of freedom of speech, campaign for opposition and other issues than the previous ones (IRI, ...
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Understanding the Implications of Social Media Usage in the Electoral Processes and Campaigns in Nigeria
... 2015 elections is inevitable because it was deployed to shape the opinions of many youths, increasing their political awareness and consciousness, which in turn resulted in an unbelievable presidential win of the ...
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