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Essays on Electoral Models
… Allan Drazen), we ask what the successful electoral strategies are and whether candidates should try to persuade "swing" voters or mobilize their "base". We present a model that can address these and related questions in a single unified framework. We relate electoral strategies to the …
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Factors Influencing Internal Audit Operations in Electoral Bodies:An Empirical Analysis of Tanzania Electoral Commission
… that influence internal audit operations in electoral bodies. Specifically, the study aimed at identifying the extent to which internal audit standards are adhered to at NEC; find out challenges facing effectiveness in internal audit at NEC, as well as find out how best the challenges can be …
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The electoral franchise in Missouri
Text from page 21: "It is the purpose of this paper to show the changes which nave taken place in the composition of the electorate of the State of Missouri and to point out, where this is possible, how these changes are the result of general tendencies throughout the United States."
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FACTORS INFLUENCING INTERNAL AUDIT OPERATIONS IN ELECTORAL BODIES: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF TANZANIA ELECTORAL COMMISSION
… that influence internal audit operations in electoral bodies. Specifically, the study aimed at identifying the extent to which internal audit standards are adhered to at NEC; find out challenges facing effectiveness in internal audit at NEC, as well as find out how best the challenges can be …
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SAENZ PEÑA Y SU REFORMA ELECTORAL
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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Budgetary Redistributive Instruments and Electoral Support
… bias itself, the timing of its usage across the electoral cycle, and the substitutability of the instruments. The results found that political parties do bias budgetary funds towards their base. However, they tend to use tools, which are less visible to the opposition party and more evident to …
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Electoral politics in Grimsby 1818-1835
… that hiatus, and is somewhat novel in examining electoral behaviour over a number of elections spanning the period of the first Reform Act. That voting was open is crucial to an understanding of voting behaviour in this period, for in general the smaller the constituency the greater the …
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Design of a Youth Electoral Audit
… Low youth voter turnout is concerning because electoral participation is an indicator of the legitimacy and health of democratic systems. Further, voting and abstention behaviours are habit forming, which means citizens who begin adulthood as non-voters are likely to stay that way. While a …
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Essays in Transportation and Electoral Politics
Abstract 1 – The Importance of Transportation Policies in Local Elections Building and maintaining transportation systems is one of the most important functions of local government. It is a subject that concerns local residents, jurisdictions spend a lot of money on, and local politicians use to …
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When will parties comply with electoral results? Political institutions and strategic choices of political parties following electoral defeat
This study examines the electoral compliance of political parties. In recent decades the number of countries holding multi-party elections has increased dramatically. Often times, however, one or more of the parties participating in the election refuse to comply with the announced results and …
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The Consolidation of Power through Electoral Engineering
… empirically by evaluating the effectiveness of electoral engineering at consolidating power. The main contributions of Part 1 are as follows: • The consolidation of power is a political, actor-focused concept that supplements the literature on democratization/democratic backsliding and is …
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Interest group analysis of electoral college reform.
… to either the maintenance or reform of the electoral college system. After categorizing the groups in terms of their preference for the present electoral college or one of the four basic plans for reform, an attempt is made to discover the way in which the group decisions on electoral …
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Generalized multi-peaked model of electoral preferences
Individuals often need to make decisions as a group on di erent levels, ranging from a family unit, to professional organizations, to larger political and economic units. Societies choose their leaders, while companies gain business insights and develop marketing strategies using aggregation …
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Information and identities in dynamic electoral environments
"Electoral environments in democracies are complex. One of the key tools voters use to simplify the information environment in elections is the party-label heuristic. However, party labels themselves change and with considerable frequency. Therefore, this dissertation investigates the consequences …
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Creative cleavages : distributive politics and electoral alignment
… an important role for political elites for their electoral goal. Since the resources that politicians can distribute are limited, they have to decide how to distribute them in order to maximize their utility. And region becomes one of the most important yardsticks. Politicians first distribute …
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Un nuevo marco conceptual para el análisis electoral
… currently in force when it comes to refer to the electoral laws arises, to a large extent, in the XIX century. Of course, the contributions in this field during the XX century have been considerable. In that line, Duverger, Rae, Sartori, Nohlen or Lijphart stand out, being some of the protagonists …
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The Language of British Electoral Politics 1880-1910
… fundamentally, the dissertation contends that electoral language was a distinct discourse: an elastic, interconnected debate rather than parallel streams of speeches which passively reflected wider developments in society and politics. In this respect, it argues that Conservatives better …
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International migration, electoral strategies and home country elections
… migration affect political parties' electoral strategies in the migrant sending countries? And what is the effect of these electoral strategies on migrant and non-migrant families' electoral choices? These are the two research questions that motivate this project. This dissertation …
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Patterns of Electoral Politics in Ceylon, 1947-1970
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:38:27Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7207008.pdf: 10942258 bytes, checksum: 423e276536b8463aff9cc988947e7ba2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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