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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Electoral Behavior"”.
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Korean Electoral Behavior: The 1992 and 1997 Presidential Elections
This is a study of Korean presidential elections. Its purpose is to determine how Koreans voted in the 1992 and 1997 presidential elections and to examine the factors that contributed to winners. In addition, the study compares the two elections by developing three models: candidate choice, voter …
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Citizens Electoral Behavior in Autocratic Regimes, Venezuela, Turkey, Russia
<p>This study offers an explanation of why voters repeatedly choose leaders who came to power democratically at some point but will not abandon it when they ought to. Research shows leaders will employ any and every mechanism to remain in power, from restricting liberties to turning to violence as …
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Effects of anti-poverty programs on electoral behavior : evidence from the Mexican Education, Health, and Nutrition Program
… and largest CCT implemented in the region, on electoral behavior. I argue that Progresa not only was substantially different from traditional clientelism, but that it challenged local monopolies on political power by increasing voter's income and giving recipients implicit and explicit …
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A normal vote approach to the nationalization of the American electorate: Presidential elections, 1828-1984
… change in the U.S. electorate's voting behavior in the first half of the twentieth century. They both contended that the sectional nature of electoral politics was deteriorating, leading to the ""nationalization"" of the electorate. A number of other researchers have since examined …
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Connecting the Nodes. How Social Capital Enhances Local Public Goods' Provision in Shantytowns.
… mechanism between social capital and LPG is electoral coordination (bloc-voting). Neighbors agree for a common electoral strategy at the slum-level, which translates into an effective mechanism to demand for improvements in their locality (``good-type partisan …
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A CULTURAL BACKLASH ALL OVER EUROPE? INVESTIGATING THE LINK FROM VALUES TO VOTES IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
A common strand in the literature on electoral behavior in Western democracies explains voter support for far-right parties through increasing alienation of social conservatives from mainstream society in the context of progressive value change. This account of electoral change relies on a pathway …
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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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Information And Voting In Senate Elections
… recent studies on information shortcuts and electoral vote choice show that challenges to classic democratic theory are largely exaggerated. Namely, there is now convincing evidence towards Americans having the ability to cast votes that are representative of their own political preferences. …
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Rinkėjų apsisprendimo (ne)balsuoti paralelių paieška Baltijos šalių, Lenkijos ir Ukrainos kontekste /
… states analyzed in this paper, shows that their electoral behavior still differs from their Western counterparts. A second aspect that differentiates these countries from other democratic systems is the effect of religion. Religion is significant in Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine. This variable …
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Political legitimacy, citizens' mobilization, and leaders' survival
… of political systems, and how the electorates' behaviors, both conventional and unconventional, instigate politi- cal instability that may substantially increase the risk of deposition. I adopt a theoretical structure of the selectorate theory proposed by Bueno de Mesquita et al. (2003), but …
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Online Political Participation: Evaluation of the Changing Effects Over Time
<p>The internet is a political participation medium that has been subject to constant changes. Just since 2008, there has been a significant increase in the amount of people who use the internet for political purposes. Building on the work of Brian Kruger and others I evaluate whether the internet …
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Diferències en el comportament electoral entre andorrans i residents estrangers a Andorra
… les diferències en relació al comportament electoral entre la població d'Andorra de nacionalitat estrangera, i per tant, sense dret a vot, i la població amb nacionalitat andorrana. A més, s'analitza com l'edat i la ideologia poden ser causes explicatives d'aquesta diferència. Prèviament, es …