Synchronism in Electoral Cycles: How United are the United States? [PDF]
The role of national, sectional, state, and local forces in driving electoral outcomes in the United States has remained a matter of considerable indeterminacy in the American politics literature.
Luís Francisco Aguiar +2 more
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A Vote Cast; A Vote Counted: Quantifying Voting Rights through Proportional Representation in Congressional Elections [PDF]
, 2002 The current winner-take-all or first-past-the-post system of voting promotes an inefficient market where votes are often wasted. In this system, representatives are selected from a single district in which the candidate with the plurality of votes gains ...
McCann, Michael
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Widespread partisan gerrymandering mostly cancels nationally, but reduces electoral competition. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Kenny CT +4 more
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Smart specialisation, regional growth and applications to EU cohesion policy [PDF]
This paper examines the arguments underpinning the smart specialisation concept, an idea which originally emerged from the sectoral growth literature, and one which has recently been applied with to the regional policy context.
Philip McCann, Raquel Ortega-Argilés
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"It is the economy, companheiro!": an empirical analysis of Lula's re-election based on municipal data [PDF]
This paper discusses the reasons that led to the Lula's 2006 re-election. Spatial analysis methods revealed that, contrary to 2002, the President had more votes in less developed municipalities of Brazil.
Andre Carraro +4 more
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General elections in Poland (1990-2024) in the unified territorial aggregation: GeoElections Poland 1.0. [PDF]
Sci DataŚleszyński P, Kowalski M.
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Instability from trade and democracy: the long-run effect of aid [PDF]
Is there an effect of aid on democracy conditional on instability from trade? This paper reinvestigates the debated effect of aid on democracy with a new specification.
Thierry Kangoye
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Democratizing electoral geography: Visualizing votes and political neogeography [PDF]
, 2009 Shin, Michael E
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The local context and the spatial diffusion of multiparty competition in urban Mexico (1994-2000) [PDF]
Multiparty competition, Mexican ...
Vilalta y Perdomo, Carlos
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Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) New Data from 165 Countries and Six Decades. [PDF]
Sci DataUmpierrez de Reguero S +2 more
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