Between order and disorder: a 'weak law' on recent electoral behavior among urban voters? [PDF]
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.
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Estimating Sensitive Behavior: The ICT and High-Incidence Electoral Behavior [PDF]
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]
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]
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
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Electoral Rules and Politicians' Behavior: A Micro Test [PDF]
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
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Patterns of electoral behavior in marginal rural communes: case study from eastern Slovakia [PDF]
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
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Borders, Constituency Politics, and “Our Man” Voting in Electoral Geography of Ukraine
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
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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
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Post-election survey data: Local democracy and the 2018 local elections in the Czech Republic
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
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
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