All we need is the candidate’s face: The irrelevance of information about political coalition affiliation and campaign promises [PDF]
Recent research has indicated that judgments of competence based on very short exposure to political candidates’ faces reliably predict electoral success.
Lucia Mannetti +3 more
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Does Democratic Competence Require a Commitment to Electoral Democracy?
Adam F. Gibbons
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Political Competences and Political Participation: On The Role of “Objective” Political Knowledge, Political Reasoning, and Subjective Political Competence in Early Adulthood [PDF]
This article deals with the relation of objective political competences and the subjective assessment of one’s own political competence. The theoretical frame states that at least in early adulthood, only the subjective competence but not political ...
Frank Reichert
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Diferenciación ideológica y coordinación estratégica en elecciones presidenciales en América Latina
Objective/context: This article estimates the effect of ideological differentiation on the level of electoral coordination in presidential elections in Latin America.
Diego Luján
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Competence in the Eye of the Electorate: Appearance, Incumbency, and Vote Shares
AbstractPrior studies have documented incumbency advantage for electoral candidates. A largely unrelated strand of literature has shown that perceived competence of candidates, as inferred from their physical appearance, also predicts their electoral success.
Thomas Bilson +3 more
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Competency-based management in Brazilian public administration: an analysis of electoral justice
This research analyzes competency-based management (CNM) in Brazilian electoral justice courts’ personnel management (PM). This qualitative study is based on the integrated multiple case study method using data collected from documents and interviews from six courts.
Gabriel Astoni-Sena +3 more
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Encouraging College Student Democratic Engagement Through a Collaborative Voter
Drawing on challenges I experienced when teaching a political communication course, I designed an upper-level undergraduate course with the objective of developing students’ civic competence and democratic engagement. The major class assignment, which is
Angela M. McGowan-Kirsch
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Application of Electoral Law by the Gabonese and Congolese Constitutional Justice: a Missing Appointment for the Rule of Law in Central Africa. This study attempts to describe the partisan and dangerous role that the electoral judge plays in order to ...
Valéry NTWALI NANTONDO IRAGI
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Education through democracy – Civic activation of the youth
Purpose: The objective of the paper is to present the effects of the evaluation study of the Polish project “Youth Vote +: Social and civic activation of young people”1 – a comprehensive education program in the field of civic engagement, based on three ...
Marta Żerkowska-Balas, Michał Wenzel
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Conflictual cabinet terminations are seismic events in democracies, but their consequences are understudied. I argue that the electoral impacts of conflictual cabinet terminations depend on voters’ perceptions of them.
Florence So
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