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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsElectoral system change is often explained as a strategic response to party-system fragmentation, but changes in the effective number of parties (ENP) alone cannot account for repeated shifts in electoral rules in the Italian case.
Alessandro Di Biagio
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Election Law and the Presidency: An Introduction and Overview [PDF]
, 2016 Americans now fully appreciate that presidential candidates are vying for a majority of the Electoral College votes, rather than the individual votes of constituents.
Goldfeder, Jerry H.
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Political Party Funding in Romania - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
EIRP Proceedings, 2015 Within political life, the determining role is given to political parties in their capacity as actors in the electoral campaign and in the race for political power.
Iulian Georgel Savenco
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Constitutional Reform: A Recipe for Restoring Faith in Our Democracy? [PDF]
, 2012 The first coalition since the Second World War is itself an innovation at Westminster. But it also came to power committed to an ambitious programme of constitutional reform – including fixed-term parliaments, directly elected mayors and local police ...
Seyd, Ben
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The 2007 Provincial Election and Electoral System Referendum in Ontario [PDF]
, 2007 Ontario’s general election in Oct. 10, 2007, was unprecedented for several reasons. The election was held on a date fixed by legislation and not one set by the premier or his caucus, something new to Ontario and relatively new to Canadian politics ...
Brown, Steven D. +3 more
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Policy Reform Under Electoral Uncertainty [PDF]
How does uncertainty affect the process of policy reform? Our investigation identifies two types of uncertainties, one at the electoral level and another at the implementation level.
Dalibor Eterovic
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2024 - THE UNRAVELLING OF ILLUSIONS? [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge SocietyThe evolution and reform of public policies face new challenges amidst the economic, social, and political conditions of the electoral year 2024. Indeed, the electoral year of 2024 appears to have a significant global impact, given the elections in ...
Liviu RADU, Carmen RADU
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Two-ballot versus plurality rule: an empirical investigation on the number of candidates [PDF]
Duverger claimed more than 50 years ago that the number of candidates in elections should be a function of electoral rules. Both his “law” and “hypothesis” suggest the number of candidates vying for seats in elections to be tightly linked to ...
Carlos Eduardo S. Gonçalves +2 more
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Energy Regulation, Roll Call Votes and Regional Resources: Evidence from Russia [PDF]
This paper investigates the relative impact of regional energy production on the legislative choices of Russian Duma deputies on energy regulation between 1994 and 2003.
Benno Torgler, Theocharis N. Grigoriadis
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