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Between order and disorder: a 'weak law' on recent electoral behavior among urban voters? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2012
A new viewpoint on electoral involvement is proposed from the study of the statistics of the proportions of abstentionists, blank and null, and votes according to list of choices, in a large number of national elections in different countries ...
Borghesi C, Chiche J, Nadal JP.
europepmc   +7 more sources

Estimating Sensitive Behavior: The ICT and High-Incidence Electoral Behavior [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Public Opinion Research, 2016
Funding This work is supported by the Austrian National Election Study, a National Research Network sponsored by the Austrian Science Fund (S10902-G11). Acknowledgments The authors thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback and Graeme Blair and Kosuke Imai for their helpful support.
Thomas, Kathrin   +4 more
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Predictors of mayoral reelection in Romanian local elections. Long-term analysis 1996–2016 [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon
This study aims to analyze the mayoral reelection rates in Romanian local elections between 1996 and 2016, a period marked by significant economic and political transitions.
Corneliu Iațu   +2 more
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Effect of rational emotive behavioral education on electoral violence behaviors. [PDF]

open access: yesMedicine (Baltimore)
Background: Research indicates that young people in Nigeria mistakenly think that participating in politics is a “do-or-die” situation. This tendency has resulted in varying political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior patterns that may be irrational.
Ezema LC   +14 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Electoral Rules and Politicians' Behavior: A Micro Test [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2008
Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using data on the Italian House of Representatives, and address the nonrandom selection into different systems exploiting one feature of the two-tier elections between 1994–2001:
S. Gagliarducci   +2 more
openaire   +10 more sources

Patterns of electoral behavior in marginal rural communes: case study from eastern Slovakia [PDF]

open access: yesHuman Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2015
Electoral behavior is one of the central issues in the context of geography of elections which is currently considered to be an established subdiscipline of geography.
Roman Mikuš, Lucia Máliková
doaj   +1 more source

Borders, Constituency Politics, and “Our Man” Voting in Electoral Geography of Ukraine

open access: yesBelgeo, 2020
The electoral geography of Ukraine is predominantly based on compositional effect studies, which consider nationality, language, and foreign policy orientations as main cleavage lines in Ukrainian society.
Mykola Dobysh, Boris Yatsenko
doaj   +1 more source

Implicit Factors and Voting Behaviour Inconsistency: From Theoretical Concept to Empirical Phenomenon

open access: yesМониторинг общественного мнения: экономические и социальные перемены, 2020
Several recent elections and referendums were marked by a dramatic failure in pre-election prediction based on large-scale surveys among voters. As a reaction to public anger and discontent among politicians alternative strategies (prediction markets ...
Олег Леонидович Чернозуб
doaj   +1 more source

Post-election survey data: Local democracy and the 2018 local elections in the Czech Republic

open access: yesData in Brief, 2021
This article presents unique survey data focused on local democracy, political attitudes and political participation. The main aim of the research was to understand the relationships between political values, political participation, political knowledge ...
Pavel Šaradín   +5 more
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Political Potentials, Deep-Seated Nativism and the Success of the German AfD

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science, 2022
The German populist radical right party “Alternative for Germany” (AfD) was founded amid various economic and political crises. This article argues that the electoral success of this political challenger, however, is rooted in more than the upsurge of ...
Julia Schulte-Cloos
doaj   +1 more source

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