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Women’s Political Citizenship in Tunisia: The May 2018 Municipal Elections and the Gender Gap

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
The 2018 municipal elections in Tunisia were the first to be held after the 2011 Arab Spring revolution. A new 2017 law required gender parity on electoral lists, even for positions at the top of those lists. However, women were wary of being thrust into
Soumaya Abdellatif
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Immigration into the mainstream: Conflicting ideological streams, strategic reasoning and party competition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Although immigration is one of the key issues of contestation in Western Europe, the extent to which it plays a part in electoral competition in individual states varies considerably, especially when it comes to the use made of the issue by parties ...
A Downs   +61 more
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The Competence of the Judicial Authority in Deciding the Validity of Parliamentary Membership

open access: yesJournal of Arts & Social Sciences, 2015
The competence of the judicial authority in deciding the validity of parliamentary membership The law of the election defines the procedure related to the electoral process stage and relevant to voting, sorting and then declaration of the results.
Faysal shatnawy
doaj   +1 more source

Information, Candidate Selection, and the Quality of Representation: Evidence from Nepal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
How do we improve the quality of representation in new democracies? This paper studies candidate selection by party leaders and asks whether poor information about public preferences can lead elite choices to diverge from mass opinion.
Gulzar, Saad   +2 more
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Weathering the Storm: Conditional Effects of Natural Disasters on Retrospective Voting in Gubernatorial Elections—A Replication and Extension

open access: yesResearch & Politics, 2018
Previous research shows that uncontrollable events like natural disasters hinder incumbent leaders’ chances at re-election, but also suggests that competent responses to such crises can benefit incumbents.
Kevin R. Stout
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Nigeria and ‘Negotiated Elections’: Examining the Impact of Rotational Presidency on Peace, the National Question, and Development

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies, 2022
Nigeria is a country consistently tilting towards one violent situation or another. Since its independence in 1960, Nigeria has witnessed numerous ethnoreligious conflicts that have threatened its corporate existence.
Olumuyiwa Temitope Faluyi
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Legal policy in modern Russia: actual problems of theory and practice (review of the materials of the round-table discussion)

open access: yesПравоприменение, 2018
The report on the speeches of the participants of the round-table discussion is presented in the paper. The discussion "Legal policy in modern Russia: actual problems of theory and practice" was organized on June 19, 2018 at the faculty of law of ...
A. V. Malko, A. Kostyukov
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of COVID-19 on Trump’s Electoral Demise: The Role of Economic and Democratic Accountability

open access: yesPerspectives on Politics, 2021
Did the COVID-19 crisis have a significant effect on Trump’s electoral demise? We present survey experimental evidence on two substantial effects of the pandemic.
Anja Neundorf, Sergi Pardos-Prado
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Convingători în funcții publice? Opiniile românilor despre competența liderilor politici [PDF]

open access: yesPolis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2022
Political leaders are often in the spotlight, citizen’s having the opportunity to interact with them and analyze their profiles during and between electoral campaigns.
Bettina MITRU
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Incentivos al abstencionismo electoral por apatía en ciudadanos bogotanos que nunca han votado

open access: yesSuma de Negocios, 2014
Electoral abstention in Colombia is evidence of the lack of interest that the population have in exercising their right to vote and elect their governments.
Andrea Correa, Diana Forero
doaj   +1 more source

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