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Pragmatic inferences and self-relevant judgments: The moderating role of age, prevention, focus, and need for cognition

open access: yesCogent Psychology, 2016
Three studies examined the influence of type of scale on self-relevant judgments and the moderating role of age, prevention, focus, and need for cognition.
Rogelio Puente-Diaz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Elections as Vehicles for Change? Explaining different outcomes of democratic performance and government alternation in Africa

open access: yesCadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2019
Does having more regular elections improve democratic performance in Africa? And have elections transformed the patterns of alternation in government? To answer these questions, two analyses are conducted drawing on an original dataset of 179 elections ...
Edalina Rodrigues Sanches   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reflecting on the Nigerian Media, Elections, and the African Democracy

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2016
This article examines how the media could enhance the conduct of elections. It also discusses the implications of the 2007 elections on public assessment of Nigerian democracy.
Godwin Ehiarekhian Oboh
doaj   +1 more source

The news coverage of the 2004 European Parliamentary Election Campaign in 25 countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This article analyzes the news coverage of the 2004 European Parliamentary\ud (EP) elections in all 25 member states of the European Union (EU). It\ud provides a unique pan-European overview of the campaign coverage based\ud on an analysis of three ...
Banducci, Susan A.   +3 more
core   +6 more sources

Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A defining feature of public sector employment is the regular change in elected leadership. Yet, we know little about how elections influence public sector careers.
Bolton, Alexander D.   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Counting interesting elections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
We provide an elementary proof of a formula for the number of northeast lattice paths that lie in a certain region of the plane. Equivalently, this formula counts the lattice points inside the Pitman--Stanley polytope of an n-tuple.Comment: 7 pages, 1 ...
Eric, Lara K. Pudwell, S. Rowland
core   +4 more sources

Trends and patterns in electoral malpractice in post-Soviet Eurasia

open access: yesJournal of Eurasian Studies, 2012
The large majority of elections in the post-Soviet area, by some accounts the most authoritarian region in the world, are marred by large-scale electoral malpractice. Since the late 1990s, the final reports from OSCE election observation missions include
Max Bader
doaj   +1 more source

Why Local Party Leaders Don't Support Nominating Centrists [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Would giving party leaders more influence in primary elections in the United States decrease elite polarization? Some scholars have argued that political party leaders tend to support centrist candidates in the hopes of winning general elections.
Christopher Skovron   +16 more
core   +1 more source

Indonesia's democratic dilemma: why asymmetric regional head elections are the future

open access: yesVia Inveniendi Et Iudicandi
The purpose of this study is to construct asymmetric regional head elections. Asymmetric regional head elections need to be constructed as a response to the problems that exist in the regional head selection model in Indonesia.
Syofyan Hadi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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