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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Personal Vote"”.
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Online political communication: the impact of the internet on MPs 1994-2005
… that e-newsletters can be used as effective vote- winners by 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). …
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Essays on abstention in the United States Senate
… In this procedure, senators cast their votes in a sequence, exogenously determined by the alphabetical order of their last names. I categorize senators into multiple types whose utilities depend not only on the roll-call outcome, but also on the vote they personally cast. When, among …
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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 …