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A look into the mirror: Preferences, representation and electoral participation
Electoral Studies, 2014Abstract Voting Advice Applications (VAA) are often praised as tools helping users to find their best matching candidates or parties. Using such tools, so the claim goes, might trigger a positive impact on electoral participation. We show that the relationship between VAA usage and the intention to take part in elections indeed exists.
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A note on the electorate's most preferred inflation rate
Public Choice, 1991Nordhaus (1975) and MacRae (1977) have articulated theories of the political business cycle which allow one to estimate an inflation rate that is optimal in the sense that it will maximize the chance of a political party remaining in power. Central to the notion of a political business cycle is a preference function or iso-vote loss curve which ...
Edward Renshaw, Emery Trahan
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Electoral Preferences in Irish Recruitment: the 1977 Election*
European Journal of Political Research, 1981ABSTRACTThis study examines some of the implications of the use of the Single Transferable Vote for legislative recruitment in Ireland. Candidates and deputies are contrasted on a number of characteristics to see the impact of the ‘electoral phase’ on recruitment.
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Shifting Electorates and Preferences in Chile’s Constitutional Process
PS: Political Science & PoliticsNormatively, democratic constitutions should express how citizens want to govern themselves collectively. Little is known, however, about how citizens’ constitutional preferences can be elicited and aggregated in practice. An intuitively appealing approach is to allow various forms of popular participation during a constitution-making process ...
Philip Keefer, Gabriel L. Negretto
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Comparing Voter Electoral Preferences Using Visualizations
The International Journal of Visual Design, 2021Swaroop Panda, Shatarupa Thakurta Roy
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Environmental programs of Russian political parties. Electoral preferences
Обозреватель–ObserverThe article analyzes the influence of environmental programs of Russian political parties on electoral preferences. The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center research shows that despite the satisfactory assessment of the environmental situation by the population, the growth of concern about the deterioration of the environmental situation in the ...
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Electoral competition, incentive contracts for politicians and unknown preferences
Social Choice and Welfare, 2007zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Voter Preferences, Electoral Cleavages and Support for Islamic Parties
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009Increasing scholarly attention has recently been focused upon the origins and fortunes of Islamic parties. This paper examines the individual determinants of support for these parties utilizing the fifth wave of the World Values Survey. It is argued that the distribution of individual preferences along political cleavages like left‐right, secularism ...
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Electoral systems and the distortion of voters' preferences [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper I show that in a parliamentary democracy, contrary to common wisdom, under a proportional electoral rule governments do not necessarily represent voters' preferences better than under plurality rule. While voters affect the composition of Parliament, decisions are taken by a subset of Parliamentarians: a coalition of them decides directly
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