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The crisis of local leadership: A passing trend or a systematic problem? [PDF]
In this paper, the author will examine the influence of the electoral system at the local level and the party system with a hegemonic or (pre)dominant party on the development of local political leadership.
Klačar Bojan
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Is the Voter Model a Model for Voters? [PDF]
The voter model has been studied extensively as a paradigmatic opinion dynamics' model. However, its ability for modeling real opinion dynamics has not been addressed. We introduce a noisy voter model (accounting for social influence) with agents' recurrent mobility (as a proxy for social context), where the spatial and population diversity are taken ...
Fernández-Gracia, Juan +4 more
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Mainstream Voters, Non-Voters and Populist Voters: What Sets Them Apart? [PDF]
Three different constituencies are becoming increasingly common across Western European electorates: mainstream voters, non-voters and populist voters. Despite their distinct behaviours in electoral politics, we have limited empirical knowledge about the characteristics that distinguish these three groups, given the typical underrepresentation of non ...
Cédric M Koch +2 more
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The voter model with anti-voter bonds☆ [PDF]
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Gantert, Nina +2 more
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Are knowledgeable voters better voters? [PDF]
It is widely believed that democracies require knowledgeable citizens to function well. But the most politically knowledgeable individuals tend to be the most partisan and the strength of partisan identity tends to corrupt political thinking. This creates a conundrum.
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Political Behavior in the EU Multi-Level System
Together with its further widening and deepening, the character of the EU has changed fundamentally during the last two decades. Acknowledging this development, the politics-dimension has become visibly more relevant in research on the EU. This “politics
Daniela Braun +2 more
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In a symmetric information voting model, an individual (politician) can influence voters' choices by strategically designing a policy experiment (public signal). We characterize the politician's optimal experiment. With a nonunanimous voting rule, she exploits voters' heterogeneity by designing an experiment with realizations targeting different ...
Ricardo Alonso, Odilon Câmara
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We test whether a voter’s decision to cast a vote depends on its probability of affecting the election outcome. Using exogenous variation arising at population cutoffs determining council sizes in Finnish municipal elections, we show that larger council size increases both pivotal probabilities and turnout.
Janne Tukiainen, Teemu Lyytikäinen
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The Effect of Political Marketing Mix on Voters Intention Based on Demographic Characteristic; Case Study: 10th Parliament Election [PDF]
In recent years a lot of parties and candidates competing in this arena have turned to using marketing techniques. That is why such terms as personal marketing, political marketing and campaigns marketing are used in the meantime.
Maryam Karbasforoshha +2 more
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Regjeringsslitasje, startvansker og svingninger i politikken
Regjeringspartier mister ofte velgere ved valg. Denne regjeringsslitasjen er et forholdsvis langsiktig fenomen som har hatt en tendens til å øke over tid. I artikkelen diskuteres et mer kortsiktig fenomen, dvs.
Hilmar Rommetvedt
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