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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Local elections"”.
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Organized Labor's Influence on Local Elections: A Case History of Snohomish County, Washington
… This applies at national, state, and even local levels. The support generated for a candidate's campaign can be attributed to factors such as personal characteristics, political following, political resources, and endorsements. This analysis focuses on union endorsements in relation to …
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Incumbency Effects in English Local Elections 1974-2010: Assessing the Advantage of Electoral Defence
… 1992). Consequently, incumbency advantage at the local level remains a relatively under-researched topic in England, confined to the sub-chapters of Rallings & Thrasher (1997). The aim of this thesis is to research and present evidence in support of incumbency effects in English local elections …
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“Be Professional, Private and Pleasant”: The Conscious and Unconscious Gendering of Campaign Messages in Canadian and Australian Local Elections
… dissertation examines Australian and Canadian local campaigns to investigate the extent to which gender and gendered stereotypes consciously affect candidates’ campaign messaging. The data for this study was gathered via in-depth interviews with 92 candidates who contested elections at the …
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Essays on political accountability in non-democratic regimes
… essays on the causes and consequences of local elections in non-democratic regimes. The first essay examines the political consequences of local elections on the first democratic election after the fall of an autocratic regime. My theoretical analysis highlights that officials that were …
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Minor Parties In English Local Government
… performance of minor parties in English local government from 1973 to 2008, a period that has seen a sharp increase in the numbers of candidates from such parties. Beginning with an overall assessment of the extent to which candidates from minor parties have contested local elections and …
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Essays in development and political economy
… empirical evidence on the causal effect of close elections on political selection and performance in India. An extensive literature in political economy predicts electoral competition improves governance. Empirical work testing this theory is scarce, however, due in large part to the difficulty in …
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Essays in Transportation and Electoral Politics
… 1 – The Importance of Transportation Policies in Local Elections Building and maintaining transportation systems is one of the most important functions of local government. It is a subject that concerns local residents, jurisdictions spend a lot of money on, and local politicians use to their …
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The role of money in local American politics
… the outsized role of political spending on elections. Campaign finance regulations have evolved as a patchwork of legislation and court precedent speaking to these concerns, with substantial variation in scope and enforcement across the states. Regrettably, research is lacking in municipal …
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Heterogeneity in Immigrants’ Municipal Engagement and Participation in Calgary
… political science has a long history of studying elections at the provincial and federal levels, but there is a gap in studying municipal elections. Additionally, Canadian political science has some interest in studying immigrant participation in provincial and federal elections, but more research …
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Does decentralization work? An assessment of the causes and consequences of subnational fragmentation in Brazil
… fragmentation - a process in which some local communities split into multiple new communities. A fledgling literature assesses both the causes and the effects of subnational fragmentation in the developing world and provides insight into the effects of the facet of decentralization that …
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Protest movements and the security policy of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1950
… of the Greens/Alternative Party in several local elections in West Germany raises the possibility that public attitudes may become less hospitable to the U.S. military presence in West Germany. This trend could have serious implications for NATO and for U.S. interests in Western Europe as a …
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Influência do uso das forças federais nas eleições de 2020: estudo de caso na cidade de aroeiras do Itaim/PI
The interference of federal forces in municipal elections is a topic of growing concern in the Brazilian political landscape. This study investigated the impact of the use of federal forces in the 2020 electoral process, focusing on the municipality of Aroeiras do Itaim/PI. The present work seeks …
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The Impact of Involvement in Educational Politics on New Jersey Teachers' Job Satisfaction, Self-Efficacy, and Work Locus of Control: A Survey Research Study
… findings suggest voting in national, state, and local elections to be a predictor of job satisfaction and self-efficacy. The implications for future research, policy, and practice are discussed.</p>
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The peculiarity of Russian politics: authoritarianism, civic culture, and the issue of electoral falsification
… as well as the issue of falsification in Russian elections. While there is little reason to challenge the assertion that Russia's transition from dictatorship to democracy has been far from satisfactory, much more can be said about the nature of its elections. While the nature of Russian politics …
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Coalitions and Incumbency Advantage in Mexico
… 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 the democratic transition …
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The determinants of vote choice in Portugal
… choice among Portuguese voters. Covering three elections (the 1980 Presidential election, the 1982 Local elections and the 1983 General election) the study was started six years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974 which restored Democracy after 48 years of the Salazar-Caetano Dictatorship. The …
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The Politics of Local Service Provision in the United States
<p>Local governments in the United States spend more than $1.6 trillion annually on public service provision. Access to reliable public services is essential for health and wellbeing. But there are large disparities in access to services across the country. This dissertation asks why. Specifically, …
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The taking of the Fifth : the contested 1960 election in the Indiana Fifth Congressional District
Elections are seldom covered in detail below the level of the national contests. Regional, district, and local elections often appear to be too provincial to be worth the time and effort to research and analyze in any detail."Taking the Fifth" is about a contested congressional race that was in …
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The far right in the UK: The BNP in comparative perspective. Examining the development of the British Nation Party within the context of UK and continental far right politics
… Party to enjoy recent electoral success at the local level under the leadership of party chairman Nick Griffin. Such electoral successes have arisen despite the seemingly relative obscurity of the party at the turn of the century. A number of different aspects are examined in order to achieve …
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Essays on Political Economy
… that this practice drastically affects 15% of local elections in Colombia. By employing quasi-experimental methods, I illustrate how the (future) allocation of transfers from central to local governments creates perverse incentives for political candidates to redistribute vote-buying.
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