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The politics of electoral system choice
Abstract This chapter examines our argument, developed in the previous chapter, of how parties’ positions on electoral system change and the composition of reform coalitions depend on the type of electoral engineering available to incumbent parties.
Patrick Emmenegger +2 more
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Spatial Modeling of Voter Choice: The Survey of Theoretical and Empirical Approach [PDF]
As for today, political elections are the key form of people’s participation in the formation of the state in all democratic countries, which is why theoretical works in the field of spatial modeling of voter choice appeared relatively long ago and ...
Lada Evgenyevna Kuletskaya
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What makes democracy possible? Transitions in Egypt and Tunisia after the Arab Uprisings
This article studies Egyptian and Tunisian transitions by investigating the effect of two factors, namely electoral system choice and the presence of competitive oppositionparties.
Osman Sahin
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The article discusses the process of the emergence of socio-electoral research in pre-revolutionary Russia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries.
Oleg A. Kazhanov
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Representation, identity and indigeneity: changes in Māori roll choice in Aotearoa-New Zealand
In New Zealand, also known by its Indigenous Māori name Aotearoa, voters of Māori descent have the choice between the Māori roll and the General roll. The boundaries of the seven dedicated Māori electoral districts are superimposed over those of the 65 ...
Jack Vowles, Matthew Gibbons
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A Choice‐Based Measure of Issue Importance in the Electorate [PDF]
AbstractMeasuring how much citizens care about different policy issues is critical for political scientists, yet existing measurement approaches have significant limitations. We provide a new survey‐experimental, choice‐based approach for measuring the importance voters attach to different positional issues, including issues not currently contested by ...
Hanretty, Chris +2 more
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The aim of this study is clustering of administrative-territorial units of Ukraine on the basis of value orientations and the electoral choice of the population of these units. The k-means method is used.
Uliana LESHENOK
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Strategic electoral rule choice under uncertainty [PDF]
We study electoral rule choice in a multi-party model with office-motivated parties and electoral outcome uncertainty. We show that when all dominant parties (parties with positive probability of winning the elections) have sufficiently good chances of winning, they agree to change the PR-rule with a more majoritarian one in order to increase their ...
Matakos, Konstantinos +3 more
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Comportamiento electoral y democracia en Nicaragua: 1990-2001
RESUMEN: En los Estados Unidos y otros países de democracia establecida existen teorías de opción electoral (vote choice) para explicar cómo y por qué los votantes toman decisiones electorales.
Leslie ANDERSON, Lawrence C. DODD
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Heterogeneity in Models of Electoral Choice [PDF]
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