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Electoral law, electoral behaviour and electoral outcomes: Australia and New Zealand compared

The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 1986
(1986). Electoral law, electoral behaviour and electoral outcomes: Australia and New Zealand compared. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 57-73.
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Electoral Laws and Turnout: 1972-2008

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
In this paper we examine the impact of electoral laws on overall turnout, and class bias in the electorate. Using turnout in each state in each year we use cross sectional time series analysis to estimate the impact of electoral reforms on turnout, with particular attention to the discriminatory impact of legal changes on persons at different segments ...
Leighley, Jan, Nagler, Jonathan
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Electoral Laws and Turnout, 1972-2004

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007
In this paper we examine the impact of electoral laws on overall turnout, and class bias in the electorate. We look at the impact of changes in registration laws on who votes, with particular attention to the discriminatory impact of legal changes on persons at different segments of the income distribution.
Nagler, Jonathan, Leighley, Jan
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Australian Electoral Law: ‘Free And Fair’?

Federal Law Review, 2004
An essential feature of any democratic system is the holding of regular elections that lead to the creation of the government of a nation. It is often said that such elections should be ‘free and fair’. Some obviously fail this test. For example, observers, including representatives of the European Union (‘EU’) and the Commonwealth, found that in ...
Bryan Mercurio, George Williams
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Electoral laws

2018
Chapter 2 provides an overview of the legal and political integrity issues raised in the 2016 elections. It begins by describing the now normal voting wars between the hyperpolarized parties, lawsuits aimed at shaping the rules for the registration of voters, the conduct of voting, and the counting of ballots.
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Discrimination in Electoral Law

Alternative Law Journal, 2003
With absolute secrecy theoretically accorded to the vote, it would come as a surprise to many Australians to learn that, in fact, the right to vote in secret is not extended to all of the community. In fact, a large percentage of voters, particularly disabled voters with impaired vision or limited arm movements as well as illiterate voters and those ...
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Electoral Law Constitutionality Case

International Law Reports, 1994
Relationship of international law and municipal law — Treaties — Effect in municipal law — EEC Treaty, 1957 — Supremacy of Community law — Conflict between Community legislation and subsequent national law — Whether ordinary courts under automatic duty not to apply conflicting national provision — Principle that full effectiveness of Community law must
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Deliberation and Electoral Law

Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy, 2013
Abstract Electoral systems inevitably help form the landscape of political deliberation. This article examines the election-deliberation relationship by considering both the nature of elections and key elements in their regulation. It argues that the open-textured nature of elections challenges the possibility of structured deliberation, but that the ...
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Electoral Law Symposium: An Introduction

Federal Law Review, 2004
This collection of articles, commentaries and book reviews, published here in the Federal Law Review, forms only the second symposium on electoral law published in Australia. Interest in how democratic choice is regulated and how elections are run – the rules of the game of electoral politics and the ways in which its dynamics intersect with those ...
Orr, Graeme, Mercurio, Bryan, Williams, George   +2 more
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EUROPEAN ELECTORAL LAW ASPECTS OF ALBANIAN ELECTORAL LAW

Të mij, libri është analizuar me kushtet e zgjedhjeve të fundit në Shqipëri, me zgjedhjet e fundit të Bashkimit Evropian, për të sjell Shiperinë në standartet e Bashkimit Evropian, si një proces I pandalshëm drejt antarësimit në Bashkimin Evropian, duke sjell politikat e rëndësishme evropiane dhe stndartet ndërkombëtare për proceset zgjedhore dhe ...
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