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Elections as beauty contests: do the rules matter? [PDF]

, 2011
Leaders have become the human face of election campaigns. This has lead to the suggestion that many voters now vote for the party leader they like best rather than the party they prefer.
Curtice, John, Hunjan, S.
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Proporzionale quasi per caso: il singolo voto trasferibile

QOE-IJES, 2009
Una lontana genesi e una scarsa adozione Come funziona  I difetti logico-formali Il voto strategico Il coordianmento strategico dei partiti Strategia e processo di formazione del Governo La proporzionalistà del STV Inplicazioni ...
Luca Gnani
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Electoral rules and voter turnout [PDF]

The paper investigates the effect of electoral rules on voter turnout. It focuses on Italian municipalities, where voting schemes are differentiated by the size of the city: a single ballot system applies to municipalities with less than 15,000 ...
Guglielmo Barone, Guido de Blasio
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Do electoral rules and elections matter in expenditure fragmentation? Empirical evidence from Italian regions [PDF]

The empirical literature shows that incumbent politicians move expenditure from one budget item to another before elections and under different electoral systems in order to capture voter consensus and gain re-election. However, little attention has been
Santolini, Raffaella
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The role of political parties in the Italian electoral reforms

Revista Catalana de Dret Públic, 2018
The aim of this paper is to understand the role played by political parties in the electoral reforms that have characterised the Italian experience since 1993.
Gennaro Ferraiuolo, Diego Praino
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How Do Electoral Rules Shape Party Structures, Government Coalitions, and Economic Policies? [PDF]

We present a theoretical model of a parliamentary democracy, where party structures, government coalitions and fiscal policies are endogenously determined.
Gerard Roland, Guido Tabellini, Torsten Persson   +2 more
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Human Development and Electoral Systems [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to test if electoral systems and human development are linked. Using high quality data and very simple panel data econometric techniques, we show that electoral systems play a critical role in explaining the difference in the ...
Darwin Ugarte Ontiveros, Marjorie Gassner, Vincenzo Verardi   +2 more
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Against Militant Democracy

German Law Journal
Militant democracy is the prevailing model for defending democracies against anti-democratic political parties. This article evaluates the militant democracy model, classifying the prohibition of political parties as its “hard” version, and the ...
Antonios Kouroutakis
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Ranking Electoral Systems through Hierarchical Properties Ranking [PDF]

Electoral systems are characterized by a wide spectrum of properties that cannot be all satisfied at the same time. We aim at examining such properties within a hierarchical framework, based on Analytic Hierarchy Process, performing pairwise comparisons ...
Lorenzo Cioni
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Proportionality or majoritarianism? In search of electoral equity [PDF]

, 2013
Finding an electoral system both equitable and efficient represents a desideratum for every electoral democracy. The electoral system is at the cornerstone of democracy and has important consequences upon the constitutional and political system as a ...
Cincea, Elena
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