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Do electoral reforms tend to favour the incumbents? A quantitative analysis
Acta Politica, 2022 Electoral reforms offer an opportunity to incumbents to change the rules strategically, for their own benefits. From this aspect, the low number of studies addressing the effect of incumbents’ potential strategic manipulations of the electoral rules is ...
Veronika Patkós
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An italic obsession: electoral reforms
QOE-IJES, 2020 The history of Italy is plenty of reforms of the electoral system. Many are those implemented since the country’s unification: from the majority system to the limited vote, from proportional representation to the majority premium in the liberal era; and,
Alessandro Chiaramonte
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Zimbabwe opposition’s quest for electoral reforms in the post-GNU era: from Unity to action
Cogent Social SciencesThe demand and clamour for electoral reforms in Africa are among one of the most pressing issues of today. Existing research has documented how citizens of several African countries have flooded the streets in anti-regime protests demanding electoral ...
Gift Mwonzora
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Party competition and electoral reforms: why do governments initiate a reform?
West European Politics, 2023 Most accounts of electoral reforms focus on successfully implemented reforms to explain how electoral context shapes the incentives of political parties, paying scant attention to the cases where governments fail to implement their preferred system. This
Esra Issever-Ekinci
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Election petition and the future of electoral reforms in Ghana
Journal of African Elections, 2022 The results of Ghana’s 2012 and 2020 elections were challenged in the nation’s Supreme Court. Even though the court processes in both cases did not alter the election results, they nevertheless exposed monumental flaws in the electoral processes.
Ransford Edward Van Gyampo +2 more
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The short-term effects of electoral reforms
Party Politics, 2022 While electoral reforms clearly affect how seats are (re)distributed among parties immediately after their adoption, they do not significantly change the (re)distribution of votes among parties. As political knowledge is positively related to turnout, we
Ignacio Lago, Ferran Martínez i Coma
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Citizen Assessment of Electoral Reforms: Do Evaluations of Fairness Blunt Self-Interest?
Political Behavior, 2021 A large literature shows that citizens care about the procedural fairness of rules and institutions. This body of work suggests that citizen evaluations of institutional changes should be constrained by fairness considerations, even if they would ...
Daniel R. Biggers, S. Bowler
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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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Gagging Electoral Fraud in Nigeria: The Imperative of Electoral Reforms
Khazanah Sosial, 2021 Elections all over the world are the only recognized legitimate means of changing and constituting governments. In other democratic climes, citizens eagerly await elections with excitement, because it affords them the opportunity to appraise the ...
Christiantus Ifeanyi Adebowale Oke +1 more
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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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