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New Venezuelan electoral authority will boost tensions

Emerald Expert Briefings, 2023
Headline VENEZUELA: New electoral authority will boost tensions
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Left–Right Orientation and Electoral Choices: Divergences in the Relationships With Authority and Out-Groups

Psychological Reports, 2017
New political parties and movements have recently grown across Europe. These parties often state their distance from the classic left–right juxtaposition, even if their voters still place themselves in the left–right continuum. The aim of the present research was to focus on the Italian political context and to analyze differences between left of ...
Passini Stefano, Villano Paola
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CONTROVERSIAL ASPECTS OF ELECTORAL SYSTEM ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITIES OF THE TYUMEN OBLAST

Surgut State University Journal, 2023
The subject of the article is a comparative analysis of the Russian electoral system’s features currently employed in the Russian regional and municipal elections and the predominantly majoritarian electoral system. At the same time, in our opinion, the domestic practice of the majority electoral system cannot be reduced to describing its advantages ...
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The Political Transition: From Traditional Authority (Monarchy) to Electoral Democracy with Legal-Rational Authority

2021
As Max Weber described in his Economy and Society, the transition from traditional authority to legal-rational authority is difficult. Many nations fail in their attempt to establish electoral democracy and legal-rational authority. However, there is hope: legal-rational authority is reinforced by the rational-scientific worldview; the contract law of ...
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Towards the first ever supranational election commission? A neofunctionalist analysis of the making of the EU electoral authority

European Politics and Society, 2020
This article examines perspectives on the creation of the first supranational electoral management body.
Nikolai Grishin, Anna Maria R. Leenders
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Targeting Benefits for Electoral Gain: Constituency Marginality and the Distribution of Grants to English Local Authorities

Political Studies, 1999
We model the spatial allocation of resources over constituencies as an optimization problem in which governing parties face uncertainty about voter preferences, but seek to increase their chances of getting re-elected. We show that a rational government should allocate extra resources to marginal constituencies and especially favour opposition-held ...
Hugh Ward, Peter John
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Who Counts, Counts: An Exploratory Analysis of How Local Authorities Organise the Electoral Count in Germany’s Most Populous State

German Politics, 2018
The organisation of the electoral counting process is a complex task that, in Germany, is delegated to local authorities. This article presents novel data from a representative survey of local communities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, to describe and to explain the variation of the ways in which the electoral count for major
Goerres, Achim, Funk, Evelyn
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The duties of the secretaries of local public authorities (LPA) in the electoral field

Consolidarea rezilienței sociale prin valorificarea capitalului uman în contextul aderării Republicii Moldova și Ucrainei la Uniunea Europeană. Conferința internațională: științifico-practică
LPA competences are the set of rights and obligations of local public authorities in the fields of activity that are established for them. In order to achieve their competences, local authorities have at their disposal financial, institutional, patrimonial and human resources.
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The electoral logic of governor rotations in Ukraine: rulers’ authority, party strength, and regional polarization

Post-Soviet Affairs, 2019
How and under what conditions do authoritarian rulers use the state apparatus to help ensure victory?
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