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Comparative Political Studies, 2007
This article provides a systematic cross-national analysis of the role of electoral administration in explaining acceptable democratic presidential elections in 19 countries in Latin America since the year 1980 or the first pivotal, transitional election. The authors provide two alternative measures of election administration, one focused on the degree
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This article provides a systematic cross-national analysis of the role of electoral administration in explaining acceptable democratic presidential elections in 19 countries in Latin America since the year 1980 or the first pivotal, transitional election. The authors provide two alternative measures of election administration, one focused on the degree
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2020
This chapter explains the hypotheses regarding state violence, with respect to the choice situations faced by leaders at election time. State and state-affiliated actors, including incumbent political leaders, have the greatest degree of latitude in selecting electoral strategies, and in particular deciding whether to use violence.
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This chapter explains the hypotheses regarding state violence, with respect to the choice situations faced by leaders at election time. State and state-affiliated actors, including incumbent political leaders, have the greatest degree of latitude in selecting electoral strategies, and in particular deciding whether to use violence.
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To Fight or to Govern? Political Capital and Electoral Competition
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023Abstract We examine the endogenous development of specialized political capital and its use, by both governing and opposition parties, within a model of policymaking and electoral competition. The opposition party can use political capital to impede the governing party's policy agenda—to throw sand in the gears—but may make itself ...
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Journal of Social-Political Studies of Iran's Culture and History, 2023
Electoral participation and popular votes are among the clear examples of political behavior, the issues that are important to study to understand the changes in society. Comparative studies on electoral governance provide valuable insights into various electoral systems, their strengths, weaknesses and consequences for democratic government. It is the
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Electoral participation and popular votes are among the clear examples of political behavior, the issues that are important to study to understand the changes in society. Comparative studies on electoral governance provide valuable insights into various electoral systems, their strengths, weaknesses and consequences for democratic government. It is the
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Pre-electoral commitments and government formation
Public Choice, 2008Recent studies show that pre-electoral commitments and the ideological distance between parties influence government formation. But do pre-electoral pacts or rejections of party combinations really have an independent impact on the outcome of the government formation game? Which policy areas matter when parties agree to build a coalition?
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Coalition Governments, Divided Governments, and Electoral Theory
Governance, 1991For decades theorizing about party competition in two‐party and multiparty democracies has proceeded along separate tracks. The former has assumed an idealized world in which one party wins full control of a system's governing institutions in a first‐past‐the‐post election, while the latter posits a world in which elections conducted under a system of ...
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Multicriteria Model to Support Governance in Electoral Institutions
International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences, 2020In democracies, power is exercised through political representation and is expressed in periodic elections. In recent decades, the population's heightened commitment to morality and the way public policies have been conducted have provoked demands from society for stricter controls and transparency in the actions of electoral institutions worldwide. In
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Party Government and Electoral Reform
2022Abstract This chapter lays out the "shifting coalitions" theory of electoral reform and applies it to out-of-sample reform episodes. The key premise is that electoral-system change is about control of government. The motivating model is based on multiple policy dimensions, resulting in a coalition with internal tensions.
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Electoral Politics, Interest Groups, and the Size of Government
Economic Inquiry, 1990This paper considers how government size responds to a change in the influence of interest groups. First, an election model is developed that has an equilibrium and in which interest groups have unequal influence. The authors then show that an increase in a group's influence per se does not cause government size to increase but does cause its size to ...
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Electoral Competition, Transparency, and Open Government Data
The 21st Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, 2020The availability of large government data, new technological developments, and emerging social norms for improved government transparency are pressurizing governments around the world to adopt open government data initiatives. Although some governments actively respond to such changes, others are found to lag despite these pressures. This study focuses
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