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Manipulating electoral laws in Singapore
Electoral Studies, 2013The literature on electoral authoritarianism has drawn attention to the use of democratic electoral institutions for undemocratic gains. This paper adds to this body of work by showing how a sophisticated hegemonic party in Singapore manipulated its majoritarian electoral system to “manufacture” its legislative supermajority.
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Asian Affairs: An American Review, 2020
The focus of this article is to explain the outcome of Pakistan’s 2018 Election, which is only the second successful transfer of power from one civilian government to another after completing a ful...
Hassan Javid, Mariam Mufti
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The focus of this article is to explain the outcome of Pakistan’s 2018 Election, which is only the second successful transfer of power from one civilian government to another after completing a ful...
Hassan Javid, Mariam Mufti
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Manipulated News Model: Electoral Competition and Mass Media
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Poland: Learning to Manipulate Electoral Rules
2004When given the opportunity, politicians try to manipulate democratic institutions to their own advantage (Riker, 1986). In mature democracies, institutional constraints that prevent manipulation have evolved over time. In contrast, the political systems of young democracies are less restricted in this area and encourage electoral heresthetics. The most
Marek M. Kaminski, Monika A. Nalepa
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Manipulation of k-Approval in Nearly Single-Peaked Electorates
2015For agents it can be advantageous to vote insincerely in order to change the outcome of an election. This behavior is called manipulation. The Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem states that in principle every non-trivial voting rule with at least three candidates is susceptible to manipulation. Since the seminal paper by Bartholdi, Tovey, and Trick in 1989,
Gábor Erdélyi +2 more
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Electoral Manipulations and Fraud in Parliamentary Elections
East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures, 2014This study examines the mechanisms through which the ruling party won a plurality of votes using a combination of legal changes and manipulative practices during the 2012 parliamentary election in Ukraine. Legal changes in electoral rules—the replacement of proportional representation to a mixed system—helped the ruling party weaken the opposition ...
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Manipulating Electoral Rules to Manufacture Single-Party Dominance
American Journal of Political Science, 2008This article argues that the LDP manufactured its parliamentary dominance in postwar Japan by strategically altering specific facets of the electoral system. More generally, I demonstrate that intraparty politics play a crucial role in determining when and how electoral rules are changed.
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Electoral manipulation via influence: probabilistic model
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2023Liangde Tao +5 more
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Region: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, 2014
This study examines the democratic integrity of nine rounds of Russian regional assembly elections which were held over the period October 2008-September 2013. It provides a detailed examination of Birch’s three key aspects of electoral malpractice: the manipulation of rules, the manipulation of voters, and the manipulation of votes.
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This study examines the democratic integrity of nine rounds of Russian regional assembly elections which were held over the period October 2008-September 2013. It provides a detailed examination of Birch’s three key aspects of electoral malpractice: the manipulation of rules, the manipulation of voters, and the manipulation of votes.
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Anticorruption Efforts and Electoral Manipulation in Democracies
The Journal of Politics, 2022Marko Klašnja, Grigore Pop-Eleches
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