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Elections with incomplete information
… role of incomplete information and learning in elections. The first chapter examines the dynamics of voter learning about candidate ability in repeated elections. The dynamic process of belief revision gives rise to incentives that vary strongly over a politician's career. In particular, …
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Elections in a spatial context : a case study of Albanian parliamentary elections, 1991-2005
Exploring elections features from a geographical perspective is the focus of this study. Its primary objective is to develop a scientific approach based on geoinformation technology (GIT) that promotes deeper understanding how geographical settings affect the spatial and temporal variations of …
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Online Elections in Terra Australis
Conducting elections in Australia has unique challenges arising from the country's geographical dispersion and the widespread use of many varieties of preferential electoral systems. Online and electronic election systems can be of great benefit in addressing many of these problems, and indeed many …
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An examination of congressional elections
… of issues that arise in U.S. Congressional elections. In the first chapter, I look at the source congressional campaign contributions. I show that the source of a campaign contribution is an im- portant factor in determining the effect the contribution has. Specifically I find that …
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Party competition in recent Japanese elections
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1968 W35
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Party competition in recent Japanese elections
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1968 W35
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Information And Voting In Senate Elections
… uncertain how voters respond to less salient elections where candidate information may not be as apparent and electoral communication efforts are more dismal. This study utilizes a voting correctly measure previously developed to analyze the ability of voters during Senate elections. Special …
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A Multivariate Analysis of Congressional Elections
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:26:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7000842.pdf: 7725200 bytes, checksum: 5c08534e871354b0a3451f2d068eebcf (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Essays on fiscal policy and elections
… the general relation between fiscal policy and elections. Chapter 1 provides a general summary of the 3 main chapters. Chapter 2 examines local and non-local public expenditures and how the two are linked through the political process. Emphasis is placed on the role of voter composition within …
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Union representation elections : campaign and vote
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1981.
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Vox populi. On Forecasting Elections with Twitter
Contains fulltext : 288385.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Essays on the Political Economy of Elections
… period is key in understanding the efficacy of elections in selecting the best possi- ble candidates. A functional electoral system should act as a quality filter in which low quality candidates are "weeded out" and the highest quality candidates are successful. In reality electoral systems may …
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Strategic interactions in modern elections and markets
… analysis of over 100 diverse real-world elections shows that despite theoretical vulnerabilities, actual strategic dynamics are straightforward and transparent, and allow significant improvements in democratic benefits over prior plurality elections. In market contexts, I find that large …
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Predicting Presidential Elections: An Evaluation of Forecasting
… for predicting the winners of U.S. presidential elections. While historically the domain of individuals outside the scholarly community - such as political strategists, pollsters, and journalists - presidential election forecasting has become increasingly mainstream, as a number of prominent …
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Repression, Elections, and Competitiveness in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes
… results presented. The competitiveness of elections are the critical component that is resulting in increased civil liberties within these regimes. Given these results, it can be inferred that these authoritarian leaders have choices regarding political reform. If the election is …
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International migration, electoral strategies and home country elections
… political parties to decide who to target during elections. By electoral targeting, I refer to those practices commonly used to get more votes, including: clientelism, home visits and the distribution of promotion and advertising materials. Because exposure to migration fosters political …
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Essays on elections, economic performance, and ideological contagion
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Lithuanian Emigrants and Home–Country Elections 2014–2016
… vote and which abstain from home–country elections, and why? How do Lithuanian emigrants make their political choices? This thesis helps us start painting a clearer picture of the external Lithuanian electorate. Among other findings, it suggests Lithuanian emigrants to be most interested …
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Elections in the Mid-Nineteenth Century British Empire
… analysis of the operation and significance of elections in the British colonies of Jamaica, New South Wales and the Cape, from 1849-1860, with a particular focus on the creation and reconstruction of ideas of politically-entitled British subjecthood over this period. Beginning with the first …
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