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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Electoral Reform"”.
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Electoral reform in an authoritarian regime--the case of Mexico
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1988.
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The Legislative Consequences of Electoral Reform: Adoption of the Mixed-Member System in Taiwan
… explore the legislative consequences of the 2005 electoral reform in Taiwan and test whether a “mandate-divide” exists between legislators elected in local districts and those elected in party lists. It also investigates whether candidate nomination rules in place before the reform affected …
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The Electoral Reform Laws of 1962: A Case Study of the Japanese Policy-Making Process
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:26:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6812176.pdf: 14516188 bytes, checksum: 9fb847035e787a746f2f312a766bae82 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1968
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Politics of Electoral Reform: The Case of the United Kingdom’s 2011 Referendum on the Alternative Vote
This thesis focuses on the politics of electoral reform. It examines dynamics operating at both the public and political elite levels. The first paper looks at the place of electoral reform in British politics, in particular the place of the Alternative Vote (AV), and demonstrates a positive …
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Interest group analysis of electoral college reform.
… with regard 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 …
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The Minches of Athy, County Kildare: A Catholic Middle-Class Family in the Nineteenth Century
… people possessed half of that land.1 In spite of electoral reform in 1850 which greatly expanded the parliamentary franchise, landed families still accounted for almost seventy-five per cent of Irish M.P.s in 1868.2 The 1870s began a period of decline for the ascendancy so that by the end of the …
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The role of the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in the transition to democracy in Mexico
The use of electoral reforms as active instruments of democratisation has been common in many transitions to democracy. However, in Mexico, electoral laws and institutions played an unusually important role in ensuring a peaceful transition to democracy. The current study addresses the effects of …
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Interest group involvement in constituency election campaigns
… created in 1991 for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing. SPSSPC+ was used to analyze the relationships between variables in four main areas: political party affiliation, geographic variables, constituency association characteristics, and the specific issues the …
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Jak reformovat český sněmovní volební systém? Analýza stávajícího systému a možnosti jeho reformy
… this study is to analyse a proposal of bill of electoral reform for electoral system to the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, and especially by the Czech government prefered so-called Greek variant, and to show its weaknesses. The main problem of this proposals is, …
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Revisiting democracy : Canada's quest for a more participatory form of representative government
… to represent, four institutional and legislative reforms are suggested in an effort to reconcile basic democratic principles with realities of Canadian political life. These reforms are: (1) recall, (2) loosening party discipline and introducing more votes, (3) referendums, and (4) electoral …
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The Twenty-Sixth Amendment as a Teachable Moment: Young Adult Voter Turnout in U.S. Elections, 1972-2006
… event in America's long and often tumultuous electoral reform journey. The persistently low voter turnout of newly enfranchised 18-20 year-olds since then not only is troubling from a democratic perspective but also is puzzling in light of the rapidly rising educational attainment of this age …
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Outsourced Combatants: The Russian State and the Vostok Battalion
… on legitimizing the annexation via an electoral reform in Crimea and fermenting political unrest in the Donbas. As violence broke out in the Donbas, anti-Ukrainian government militias were formed by defecting Ukrainian security forces members, local volunteers, and volunteers from …
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Playing to win : democratic deliberation, planning, and politics in Toronto's civic lottery
… asked to deliberate on topics as wide-ranging as electoral reform and health care policy. As they have become more widespread, the focus of randomly selected citizen bodies has also been moving from topics debated at the national and state level to more practical questions affecting specific …
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Making Good Citizens: Policy Approaches to Increasing Civic Participation
… examines the causal effect of preregistration—an electoral reform that allows young citizens to enroll in the electoral system before turning 18, while also providing them with various in-school supports. Using data from the Current Population Survey and Florida Voter Files and multiple methods …
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Partisanship, Election Reform and Decision-Making in the North Carolina Supreme Court: A Case Study
… Supreme Court ruled before and after the reform, contributing to a line of literature on the impact of institutional arrangements (including selection systems) on judicial decision-making. The thesis examines whether any detectable differences appeared between judicial behavior and the …
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Puolueet kirkkoa valtaamassa? : Suomen evankelis-luterilaisen kirkon ja yhteiskunnan väliset suhteet Forssan, Merijärven ja Vihdin seurakuntavaalien 1970, 1974 ja 1978 valossa
… and to vote. They believed that with the electoral reform, democracy would move forward within the Church, and they called for permission to use party symbols. Throughout the country, the turnout percentage remained below 20 and varied approximately from 13 to over 43 in the examined …