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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Incumbency Advantage"”.
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Coalitions and Incumbency Advantage in Mexico
… in an election, and political parties can take advantage of this by forming coalitions, even with unlikely partners. This paper tries to answer whether such a coalition was indeed successful or not during the 2010 elections. In 2010, 14 Mexican states held elections. Each of them renewed state …
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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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Incumbency Effects in English Local Elections 1974-2010: Assessing the Advantage of Electoral Defence
The study of electoral defence and its stated advantages are an integral part of American political science. Post-war, much academic literature has emerged in an attempt to identify and explain rising re-election rates of congressional incumbents and the political consequences of such a phenomenon …
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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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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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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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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 …