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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Incumbency"”.
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Coalitions and Incumbency Advantage in Mexico
Despite the multi-party feature of the federal electoral system in Mexico, local elections are essentially embedded in a bipartisan system. Literature has thus far assumed that democratic transitions will permeate from the national to the sub-national level. However, in Mexico, even a decade after …
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Essays in development economics : incumbency disadvantage, political competition, and remedial education in India
(cont.) The remedial education program hires young women from the community to provide remedial assistance to third and fourth grade children who have fallen behind their peers. The program is extremely cheap (five dollars per child per year), and is easily replicable. We find the program to be …
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Incumbency Effects in English Local Elections 1974-2010: Assessing the Advantage of Electoral Defence
… King 1991). Conversely, the study of political incumbency in Britain can be attributed to a handful of scholars who tend to consider the repercussions at parliamentary level (Williams 1967, King 1981, Cain, Ferejohn and Fiorina 1984, Norton 1990 & 1994, Norris, Valance & Lovenduski 1992). …
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Decoupling market incumbency from organizational experience : a study of biotechnology's impact on the market for anti-cancer drugs
… this dissertation a study that decouples market incumbency from organizational experience. I walk away from the current hypothesis of incompetence in research and development of a radical new technology in the case of incumbents. I instead construct a framework highlighting the competitive …
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"Whiteness and news: the interlocking social construction of ""realities"""
… and the racial status quo, or what I call white incumbency, despite its push for diversity and its stated aims to improve coverage of nonwhite communities. It is based on an in-depth ethnographic study of two daily newspapers and extensive one-on-one interviews with 61 journalists. I found that …
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Party positions and the seats/votes relationship with ideological voters
… concerning short-term economic shocks, incumbency advantages, and gerrymandering. Chapter 3 is based on ideological voters. With purely ideological voters, party vote share depends on the distribution of voters in the entire country. Seat share depends on distribution of district …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Elections
… the best possible candidates. The presence of incumbency advantage may lead to a dysfunc- tional system with deleterious effects for welfare. Incumbent candidates may use officeholder benefits to improve their electoral prospects. For exam- ple, incumbents typically have access to free postage, …
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Entry threat as a determinant of accounting earnings management
… concentration as proxies for entry-induced incumbency losses. It then examines how these industrial variables influence the use of discretionary accruals when entry threat is increased during periods of peak corporate performance.
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The Effects Of The State Agriculture Industry On Elections In South Dakota
… The results indicate that political party and incumbency have a much greater impact on a candidate's election and vote share than the economic variables. The results also indicate that farm earnings have no significant effect on the state's election results.</p>
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Local Television News, Political Participation and Political Knowledge
… information, political participation, and the incumbency advantage. The study demonstrates that individuals living in media markets where the geographical boundaries of the media market are more congruent with the geographical boundaries of the United States Congressional District are more …
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The Brazilian Far West: Frontier Development in Mato Grosso,1870--1937
… politics through the analysis of office holding, incumbency rates, and collective biographical data. The quantitative evidence developed in the dissertation has been cross-tabulated in order to yield new insights into the interrelation of social, economic, and political variables in historical …
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Elections with incomplete information
… facts about the U.S. Congress, including the incumbency advantage, the dynamics of effort allocation over a career, the importance of constituency service, and seniority norms in committee assignments. In chapter 2, I study a simple model of campaign finance with possibly asymmetric …
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The Performance of Gender Archetypes in Political Campaigns
… context, candidate partisan identification, and incumbency status (or challenger status) determine the range of archetypal roles a candidate might choose to perform. What I find is that candidate gender matters, but only for some candidates in some contexts. For many candidates, these factors …
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Risk, efficiency and industry dynamics in the Australian banking sector
… efficiency and the relevance of scale, size and incumbency when measuring bank efficiency. The new definition of bank output is also applied across the sector using econometric and non-parametric techniques to gauge productivity. Problems with balanced data sets and aggregation of firm level …
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Online political communication: the impact of the internet on MPs 1994-2005
… encouraging constituents to switch votes. This „incumbency effect. (Krasno 1994) suggests that existing research (Curtice and Steed 1997, Butler and Collins 2001) has under-estimated the effect of a personal vote (Cain et al. 1987). Second, websites and e-newsletters are helping MPs develop a new …
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Candidate emergence and success: Evidence from women in state legislative primary elections
… rules of a state, and traditional factors like incumbency, I test what factors determine the entry of women candidates into the primary race and what determines their success in gaining the nomination. I argue that many of these factors influence the strategic calculus of a woman candidate and …
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Incorporating Youth into the Political Arena: Elite Structures, Elite-youth Linkages, and Youth (De-) mobilization in post-1960 Turkey (1960-2016)
… more they adopted hybrid incorporation to secure incumbency and sustain political hegemony. Elite hegemony weakened oppositional youth politics and politically empowered pro-government youth.
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Kleptocracy in Kazakhstan : Understanding Kleptocratic Activity of President Nazarbayev’s Inner Circle
… assets on relationship with the leader and the incumbency advantage, lack of long-term security and stability, and reputation laundering. In addition, the thesis identifies two non-drivers – reputation risks and actions taken by foreign agents. Furthermore, this thesis supports the drivers with …
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Assessment of the Performance of a Resilient Hybrid Political System: The Case of Malaysia
… and democratization as well as reinforce regime incumbency and dampen democratization. This study shows that, ultimately, the interactions between the positive and negative components may produce balancing mechanisms that help to strengthen both the regime's persistence and the country's …
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Citizen-Subjectivity, Experiential Evaluation, and Activist Strategies: Explaining Algerian Violence and Polish Peace under Authoritarian Rule
… power from industries pivotal to ruling-elite incumbency. But Algeria's client-based citizenship - based on undifferentiated resources - tied activists' systemic means of compulsion to state largesse. Differentiated citizenship regimes endure state crises because citizens retain the social …
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