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Mobile Voters: Patterns of Electoral Volatility in Slovakia

open access: yesPolitologický časopis - Czech Journal of Political Science
Electoral volatility is a perennial feature of Slovak general elections. Furthermore, volatility has increased over time, suggesting party system stabilization is unlikely. As the vicious cycle of new party emergence continues, high volatility complicates the attribution of responsibility, and thus accountability.
Gyárfášová, Oľga   +2 more
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Electoral system and political parties in Mexico (1994-2000) Sistema electoral y sistema de partidos en México (1994-2000)

open access: yesAmérica Latina Hoy, 2010
The article explores the consequences of the electoral formula and the effective threshold, the size of electoral circumscriptions and the number of congressional representatives on the levels of disproportional representation that exists in the ...
Ernesto HERNÁNDEZ NORZAGARAY
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Volatilty and electoral competitivity in Latin America: an exploratory study of six party systems

open access: yesRevista Colección, 2017
To what extent electoral volatility and party system competitiveness may be related? This paper seeks to answer this question by studying six Latin American party systems (Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela). Considering Presidential and
Facundo Cruz
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Do high and volatile levels of public investment suggest misconduct ? the role of institutional quality [PDF]

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This paper investigates the impact of institutional quality on public investment levels over the period 1984-2008. Moreover, it studies how the volatility of public investment and the quality of infrastructure are affected by institutional quality, and ...
Grigoli, Francesco, Mills, Zachary
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Problems of Categorizing and Explaining Party Systems in Africa [PDF]

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Starting from controversial findings about the relationship between party systems and the prospects of democratic consolidation, this article argues that problems can only be properly addressed on the basis of a differentiated typology of party systems ...
Gero Erdmann, Matthias Basedau
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A Computational Electoral Competition Model with Social Clustering and Endogenous Interest Groups as Information Brokers [PDF]

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We extend the basic model of spatial competition in two directions. First, political parties and voters do not have complete information but behave adaptively.
Sadiraj, V.   +2 more
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Consistency versus credibility: how do countries choose their exchange rate regime? [PDF]

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The empirical distinction between de facto and de jure exchange rate regimes raises a number of interesting questions. Which factors may induce a de facto peg? Why do countries enforce a peg but do not announce it? Why do countries \break their promises"?
Emilio Colombo   +2 more
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