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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Electoral Outcomes"”.
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Quality matters : electoral outcomes and democratic health in Africa
… as the polls closed five days later; the Kenyan Electoral Commission had been disgraced, the two main political parties were mired in ballot stuffing accusations, and violence had engulfed Nairobi, Kisumu, and the Rift Valley. While the flawed election led to an irreplaceable loss of life and …
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Explaining Multiculturalism's Survival: Electoral Outcomes, Policy Design, and Veto Players
… right in national level politics is affected by electoral outcomes, by policy design and by the actions of critical veto players. More precisely, it argues that multiculturalism is more likely to survive an ideological shift to the right in national level politics when (1) parties of the …
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INTERNAL DEMOCRACY OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTORAL OUTCOMES: A STUDY OF STATUTES, ELECTORAL DISPUTES AND LEGAL DECISIONS IN NIGERIA (1999-2019)
… framework of IPD and how it has shaped electoral outcomes in Nigeria. The study draws on institutionalism and institutional legal theory to examine political parties, electoral laws, and judicial decisions in relation to IPD in Nigeria. The study further examines how these institutions …
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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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Matching faces to expectations : the impact of political and business domain differences in gendered expectations on preferred appearance for leaders
… body of research, predominantly centered on electoral outcomes, has put forth conflicting results demonstrating that feminine appearance can be beneficial. In a series of experimental studies, I aim to resolve the conflict in the literature by proposing an expectation-matching theory. I …
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Old Measures, New Implications: The Meaning of Political Efficacy across Political Contexts
… commonalities and differences. The first part, `Electoral Outcomes, Expectations and the (de)Mobilisation of Political Efficacy' contributes to the winner-loser gap literature by assessing the effect of elections, electoral outcomes and electoral expectations on political efficacy in the United …
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Turnout twist : higher voter turnout in lower-level elections
… our understanding of incentives affecting electoral participation both at national and subnational levels. First, I show that Japan is not the only exception. There are some other important cases of higher voter turnout in lower-level elections, which I define as the "turnout twist" …
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EMPHASIZING THE OPPONENTS' ISSUES. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE INCENTIVES AND OUTCOMES OF POLITICAL PARTIES IN EUROPE
… a deeper understanding of the incentives and electoral outcomes of a specific party strategy: the emphasis of issues that not only fall outside the party’s ideological domain but that lie within the opponents’ one. The existing approaches on the matter have focused on the convergence of …
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Essays on the political economy of service provision
… the distribution of service provision and its electoral outcomes are also contingent on local social structures. It contributes to theoretical knowledge on the political economy of service provision by introducing novel arguments that explain spatial and temporal variations in state capacity …
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Elections in El Salvador: Examining the Apparent Electoral Dominance of the Political Right following the Civil War
… expressed in this survey are consistent with the electoral outcomes and indicate a general favoring of a market economy as opposed to the socialist offering of the primary competition. At the same time, concerns remain regarding a variety of social issues such as education, poverty, and crime. …
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Explaining Subnational Variation in Voter Coordination and Party Entry in Electoral Competition
<p>This dissertation focuses on electoral politics in a comparative perspective, specifically subnational variation in strategic party entry and strategic voter coordination. The dissertation studies how within-country variation both in the demographic composition of electoral districts and also in …
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Transparency and accountability of the electoral process in promoting credible electoral democracy in Zambia: A focus on Kafue and Lusaka districts
Many countries have embraced electoral democracy globally and are serving as inspirational and beacons for the rising tide of electoral democracy throughout the world (EIU, 2010; Mbeki, 2016). In some countries, credible elections have been held while in others not, instead troubled electoral …
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Transparency and accountability of the electoral process in promoting credible electoral democracy in Zambia: A focus on Kafue and Lusaka districts
Many countries have embraced electoral democracy globally and are serving as inspirational and beacons for the rising tide of electoral democracy throughout the world (EIU, 2010; Mbeki, 2016). In some countries, credible elections have been held while in others not, instead troubled electoral …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Elections
… Therefore understanding the determinants of electoral outcomes and the incentives faced by political candidates during the election 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 …
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A One-shot Deal on the Spot: How Vote Buying Affects Electoral Behaviour. Experimental Evidence from Mexico
… in favour of the front-runner. Reports from electoral observers supported that version. Did vote buying modify voters choices? Although the literature has approached vote buying from several angles, there remain disputes and gaps in our understanding of the mechanisms involved and their …
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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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Political Development in Zambia : A critical appraisal of Communication stategies used by The Movement for Multi Party Democracy (MMD) to disseminate Political Information
… has been said to lead to voting behavior and electoral outcomes that are meaningless representations of voter interests. Political parties are therefore the solution to the problem of public ignorance by communicating political information effectively to the public. The study used …
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Intra-party candidate success and ideological positions in an open-list proportional representation system
… candidates and intra-party competition for electoral outcomes has been on the rise. This is due to increasing personalization of politics in Western democracies. This doctoral dissertation contributes to the relatively new literature on intra-party competition. Intra-party competition is a …
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MAKING LEGIBILITY WORK: THE BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS OF STATE KNOWLEDGE
… on how empowered politicians feel after electoral outcomes (Chapter 4). In contrast, I find that political continuity, measured by mayoral reelection, does not affect positively or negatively the quality of local officials (Chapter 3). Third, despite the absence of Weberian institutions, …
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