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Majority rules are frequently used to decide whether or not a public good should be provided, but will typically fail to achieve an efficient provision.
Schmitz, Patrick W., Tröger, Thomas
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The manifestation of democratic values in Indonesia as the actualization of power in the hands of the people is the implementation of general elections (Pemilu) and regional head elections.
Liza Noviani +2 more
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Participatory Deliberative Democracy for Peace in El Salvador
Postconflict societies such as El Salvador, surpassing 25 years of relative peace since signing the 1992 Chapultepec Peace Accords, have employed many mechanisms to rebuild and establish lasting peace.
Marcia Mundt
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Elections for the Authorities, Elections for Citizens
The purpose of this article is to study elections from the perspective of the motivation of society’s participation in them. The interests of professional political subjects and the people are differentiated.A comparative analysis of a number of models ...
N. V. Perevyshin
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Recall Elections: A Tool of Accountability? Evidence from Peru [PDF]
I examine the role of recall elections in Peruvian municipalities to evaluate whether they are used as a tool to increase political accountability.
Michael Haman
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Predicting Elections with Twitter: What 140 Characters Reveal about Political Sentiment
Twitter is a microblogging website where users read and write millions of short messages on a variety of topics every day. This study uses the context of the German federal election to investigate whether Twitter is used as a forum for political ...
A. Tumasjan +3 more
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The Usefulness of Corruptible Elections [PDF]
The belief that elections reduce rent seeking by government officials is widely held, likewise the belief that rent seeking decreases as elections are less subject to corruption.
Brandt, Loren, Turner, Matthew
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Although we know a lot about why citizens vote or abstain in elections, the social inequality of low turnout in European elections has attracted little attention.
Stefan Haußner, Michael Kaeding
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The 2009 European Election in Italy: National or European? [PDF]
In June 2009, European citizens voted in the European Parliamentary elections. Despite the relevance of the election, turnout across countries was particularly low. In Italy, too, abstention is growing and this paper aims to explain why. Traditionally,
Serricchio, Fabio
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Entropic Analysis of Votes Expressed in Italian Elections between 1948 and 2018 [PDF]
open access articleIn Italy, the elections occur often, indeed almost every year the citizens are involved in a democratic choice for deciding leaders of different administrative entities.
Dhesi, Gurjeet +3 more
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