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Fiscal Consequences of Electoral Institutions [PDF]
, 2013 There are more than 500,000 elected officials in the United States, 96 percent of whom serve in local governments. Electoral density - the number of elected officials per capita or per governmental unit - varies greatly from place to place.
Berry, Christopher R., Gersen, Jacob E.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster +4 more
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Geography of Electoral Volatility in the Warmia and Mazury Voivodeship of Poland [PDF]
Baltic Region, 2016 The authors describe the impact of administrative reforms on the electoral volatility in the Warmia and Mazury voivodeship of Poland. The administrative reforms resulted in the formation of a new territorial organization of power.
Tarasov Ilya N., Fidrya Efim S.
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Voters' Preferences and Electoral Systems: The EuroVotePlus Experiment in Italy [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016 Motivated by the need of understanding voting behavior under different electoral rules, Laslier et al. (2015) have conducted an online experiment in several European countries during the three weeks before the 2014 elections for the European Parliament, the EuroVotePlus experiment. This paper focuses on the Italian data. We first show that the behavior
BETTARELLI, LUCA +3 more
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Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
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Key Determinants of Poles’ Voting Preferences in the 2023 SEJM Elections
Baltic Journal of Law & PoliticsThe desire to know the key determinants of voters’ voting preferences is the domain not only of political scientists, but also of politicians in charge of party programmes and election campaigns.
Pieniężny Dawid
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География электоральной волатильности в Варминьско-Мазурском воеводстве Польши [PDF]
Балтийский регион, 2016 The authors describe the impact of administrative reforms on the electoral volatility in the Warmia and Mazury voivodeship of Poland. The administrative reforms resulted in the formation of a new territorial organization of power.
Tarasov Ilya N. , Fidrya Efim S.
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Acta Iuris Stetinensis, 2023 Search engine algorithms are based on content prioritization mechanisms that remain beyond social control. This, in turn, means that they can be used in a completely free way by their owners, as well as entities specializing in positioning content on the
Kamil Stępniak
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Endogenous choice of electoral rules in a multi-party system with two dominant parties [PDF]
, 2009 We develop a model of endogenous choice of electoral rules in a multiparty system with two dominant parties, in an environment of uncertainty about the outcome of the election.
Matakos, Kostas, Xefteris, Dimitrios
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Information, Candidate Selection, and the Quality of Representation: Evidence from Nepal [PDF]
, 2020 How do we improve the quality of representation in new democracies? This paper studies candidate selection by party leaders and asks whether poor information about public preferences can lead elite choices to diverge from mass opinion.
Gulzar, Saad +2 more
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