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The Weakness of European Wales [PDF]
, 2017 Why did Wales vote to leave the EU and Scotland vote to remain? Richard Marsden and Penni Bestic argue that to answer this question we need to examine how the Welsh and Scottish people perceive their turbulent national histories, and how this informs ...
Bestic, Penni, Marsden, Richard
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Introduction: New Forms of Voter Mobilization in Southeast Asia
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2010 Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century is no longer what it used to be, at least not at its ASEAN core. By the 1990s, competitive elections had (re)emerged as the primary mechanism for the assumption of state office in the Philippines and Thailand ...
Eva-Lotta E. Hedman, Andreas Ufen
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A yes vote for the fiscal treaty was the cheaper and safer option for Ireland [PDF]
, 2012 Last week, Ireland voted ‘Yes’ to the European Fiscal Stability Treaty, despite some predictions that the country would vote No. Michael Courtney argues that Irish voters knew that voting Yes was the only way to secure future bailouts, should they be ...
Courtney, Michael
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Socially Optimal Districting: An Empirical Investigation [PDF]
This paper provides an empirical exploration of the potential gains from socially optimal districting. As emphasized in the political science literature, districting matters because it determines the seat-vote curve, which relates the fraction of seats ...
Brian Knight, Stephen Coate
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The 2009 European Election in Italy: National or European? [PDF]
, 2014 In June 2009, European citizens voted in the European Parliamentary elections. Despite the relevance of the election, turnout across countries was particularly low. In Italy, too, abstention is growing and this paper aims to explain why. Traditionally,
Serricchio, Fabio
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Votes populaires, votes populistes [PDF]
Hermès, 2005 Le Front national, en se revendiquant du populisme, s'inscrit dans une mouvance tres repandue en Europe, qui pourrait se caracteriser par le refus de la mediation, l'appel au peuple contre les elites. Mais la mefiance envers un personnel politique considere comme corrompu est, par exemple, aussi frequente dans l'electorat d'extreme gauche.
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State Concentration Exponent as a Measure of Quickness in Kauffman-type Networks
, 2013 We study the dynamics of randomly connected networks composed of binary Boolean elements and those composed of binary majority vote elements. We elucidate their differences in both sparsely and densely connected cases.
Hiroyasu Ando +6 more
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Éducation, représentation, tripartisme : la loi du milieu
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez, 2017 Representative democracy faces a dilemma, not to say a contradiction: all citizens are equal but some are more equal than others, whether they are chosen for their greater ability, or whether having been elected without a specific mandate, they have more
Hervé Le Bras
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Reciprocity and Resistance to Comprehensive Reform [PDF]
Comprehensive reforms often fail or become piecemeal during preparatory phase of the legislation. A promising candidate to explain the failure of comprehensive reforms is vote trading on a subset of individual bills included in the original comprehensive
Simeon Schudy, Urs Fischbacher
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Restoring the Right to Vote [PDF]
, 2008 The right to vote forms the core of American democracy. Our history is marked by successful struggles to expand the franchise, to include those previously barred from the electorate because of race, class, or gender.
Erika Wood
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