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The Productivity of Public Capital: Evidence from the 1994 Electoral Reform of Japan [PDF]
This paper attempts to estimate the causal effect of public capital stock on production using Japanese prefectural data. We first articulate the difficulty of consistently estimating the regional-level production function with public capital due to the ...
Keiko Tamada +2 more
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Playing the System: Electoral Bias in the 2024 UK General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 65-73, January/March 2025.Abstract The UK's 2024 general election was the least proportional of modern times. Labour's substantial parliamentary majority rested on the smallest ever winning party vote share. The Conservatives, meanwhile, suffered one of their worst ever results.
Charles Pattie, David Cutts
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Journal of Politics in Latin America, 2009 This research note considers the effects of electoral system reformin Bolivia. In 1995, Bolivia moved from a list-proportional to a mixedmemberproportional electoral system.
Miguel Centellas
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Slovakia’s Electoral Reform at a Crossroads
On May 21st and 22nd 2025, Prime Minister Robert Fico and Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok presented a series of proposals for substantial changes to Slovakia’s electoral system. The opposition swiftly criticized the plans as a threat to democratic governance.
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Electoral System Change in Belgium 2003: Party Strategies and Voter Responses [PDF]
The paper addresses two points: First, what is the effect of changes to the electoral system in Belgium and second, how do voters respond to the new electoral rules? If seat-maximization is the key link then this would lead to the prediction that parties
Gschwend, Thomas
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The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 140-148, January/March 2025.Abstract In this article, the key dilemmas that will confront the new Labour administration in Britain during its initial period in power are examined. The Starmer government is seeking to use the state pragmatically to improve British economic performance, stem the crisis in public services and strengthen the strategic capacity of Whitehall.
Patrick Diamond +2 more
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Local Leaflets: Constituency Issue Messaging at the 2024 General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 111-119, January/March 2025.Abstract The 2024 general election brought about a significant change in the parliamentary balance of power. There has already been much attention devoted to the issues that dominated the national campaign. Using original leaflet data from the OpenElections project, this study extends the focus to explore the issues emphasised in local electoral ...
Alan Duggan, Caitlin Milazzo, Siim Trumm
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Romanian Local Election Mechanisms. Continuity versus Change
Sfera Politicii, 2012 2012 election, which took place under exceptional political auspices, is generally considered atypical when compared to the other five post-communist local election cycles, the two reasons for this being the increased citizen ballot presence (caused by ...
Alexandru Radu
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, 2015 El siguiente artículo se centra en analizar tres publicaciones generados por Organismos Internacionales, como Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA), el Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), el Instituto Internacional para la ...
Espinosa Mora, Yaritza Idalia
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‘Whitby Woman’, ‘Waitrose Woman’: Gender and Voting Behaviour at the 2024 UK General Election
The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 74-82, January/March 2025.Abstract Women were identified as key targets in the 2024 British general election. There was much speculation as to whether ‘Whitby’ or ‘Waitrose’ women would swing the result for Labour. This interest in women voters stemmed, at least partially, from the fact that the 2017 and 2019 British general elections were the first where a modern gender gap—a ...
Rosie Campbell +3 more
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