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Ramshackle Federalism: America’s Archaic and Dysfunctional Presidential Election System [PDF]
, 2016 Accordingly, this Article proposes five sensible and achievable reforms to modernize the presidential election system. Each requires Congress and the federal government to play a much more proactive role in the presidential election system.
Gaughan, Anthony J.
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Small Business Owners Support Reforming U.S. Elections [PDF]
, 2014 Politicians talk a lot about how small businesses are the backbone of the economy. Yet small business owners often feel at a disadvantage when it comes to the political process.
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Abortion and the Electoral Campaign in Poland AD 2023
Przegląd KonstytucyjnyTwo years after the abortion decision of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal and just after the mid-term election in the USA, there was a calculation that the abortion issue might play a pivotal role ...
Agnieszka Bień-Kacała
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The pronouncements of paranoid politicians [PDF]
This paper models the strategic encounter of two office-motivated candidates who may or may not announce policy. In the case of no announcement, the voters rank the candidates according to prior beliefs. In the case of announcement, the candidates cannot
Guido, Cataife
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Why Are Women Still Not Running for Public Office? [PDF]
, 2008 Analyzes the factors behind women's underrepresentation in public office; the degree to which gender affects political ambition, perceptions of politics, and willingness to campaign; and the reasons women are less likely to run for office than ...
Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox
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Campaign Tactics and Citizens’ Electoral Decisions [PDF]
This paper considers how electoral competition affects voters turnout and candidate choice. We do so via an instrumental-variable (IV) bivariate probit with selection which jointly estimates both processes.
Chun Seng Yip, Massimiliano Landi
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The 2007 Provincial Election and Electoral System Referendum in Ontario [PDF]
, 2007 Ontario’s general election in Oct. 10, 2007, was unprecedented for several reasons. The election was held on a date fixed by legislation and not one set by the premier or his caucus, something new to Ontario and relatively new to Canadian politics ...
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Campaign Advertising and Voter Welfare [PDF]
This paper investigates the role of campaign advertising and the opportunity of legal restrictions on it. An electoral race is modeled as a signalling game with three classes of players: a continuum of voters, two candidates, and one interest group.
Prat, A.
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The birth of a bi-polar system or a referendum on a polarising government? The October 2007 Polish parliamentary election [PDF]
, 2008 No description ...
Szczerbiak, Aleks
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Selling Favors in the Lab: Experiments on Campaign Finance Reform [PDF]
Substantial academic interest and public policy debate centers on campaign finance reform. Campaign resources can provide benefits to constituencies if candidates use them to fund the distribution of useful information.
Daniel Houser, Thomas Stratmann
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