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From 2000 Bush-Gore to 2006 Italian elections: Voting at fifty-fifty and the Contrarian Effect [PDF]
, 2007 A sociophysical model for opinion dynamics is shown to embody a series of recent western hung national votes all set at the unexpected and very improbable edge of a fifty-fifty score.
C.J. Tessone +14 more
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Elecciones presidenciales y legislativas en Colombia en 2022
Colombia Internacional, 2023 Objective/context: This introductory article to the dossier on Legislative and Presidential Elections 2022 of Colombia Internacional seeks to describe important features of the 2022 electoral campaign, as well as present the configuration of the party ...
Juan Carlos Escobar +2 more
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Дискурс Пи, 2018 The article is devoted to the analysis of the role and place of the presidential elections in 2018 in the political life of Russia. The author notes that in the current political situation, while maintaining the procedural significance of the ...
R.A. Kandyba
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Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2019 In this article, we analyse patterns of turnout and electoral choices of Cape Verde’s citizens in different types of elections, looking at all legislative, presidential and local elections held between 1991 and 2016, and testing four hypotheses derived ...
José Santana Pereira +2 more
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Proximity, candidates, and presidential power: how directly elected presidents shape the legislative party system [PDF]
, 2014 The impact of presidential coattails on the legislative party system is a highly intuitive idea. The coattails effect is believed to depend on the number of presidential candidates and the size of the presidential prize. This article proposes a different
Bucur, Cristina +3 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Polarization of the Sri Lankan Polity: An Analysis of Presidential Elections (1982 – 2005) [PDF]
, 2008 Sri Lanka is a multi-ethnic, multi-religious developing country that has enjoyed continuous universal adult franchise since 1931. Under a new constitution enacted in 1978, Sri Lanka moved to a presidential system of government.
Warnapala, Yajni, Yehiya, Zufni
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Farmers’ Protests in Germany: Media Coverage and Types of Bias
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The German farmers’ protests of 2024 sparked widespread media coverage and public debate. Yet, media coverage was not always positive, reflecting the media's attention‐seeking and selective focus. Occurrences of farmers blocking media outlets reflected distrust in how their concerns were portrayed.
Felix Schlichte, Doris Läpple
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Frontiers in Political ScienceAmerica’s electoral democracy is widely regarded as one of the best models for African states even though the United States did not colonise any country on the continent.
Gbeke Adebowale Adenuga
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Illinois Government Research no. 43 1976: As Goes Illinois... The State as a Political Microcosm of the Nation [PDF]
, 1976 The old saying has it that in presidential elections "as goes Maine, so goes the nation." While this statement may have once been valid, over the last forty years the bellwether nature of the state of Maine has been open to serious challenge. In fact,
Przybylski, James
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