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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"electoral rules"”.
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Religion, Electoral Rules and Women's Representation: A Cross National Examination
… region) and political structure (quota law; electoral systems; government type). The disaggregation of religion and sub-religious groups is one of the major contributions in explaining women's representation. The application of both legislative and party quota law also explains women's …
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A parlamenti képviselők választókerület-központúsága pártcentrikus választási rendszerekben Magyarország példáján = Legislators' constituency orientation under party-centred electoral rules
… orientation appears in a country where electoral rules encourage party representation. Previous research has established that electoral systems and member personalization are closely connected: candidate-centred electoral rules enhance personal-, while party-centred systems support party …
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Constrained populism in Indonesia: Joko Widodo, electoral institutions and party power
… Within presidential systems, more specific electoral system features can also facilitate the success of populist presidential candidacies. In Indonesia, key structural and institutional correlates of populism exist in tension with some distinctive features of the country's electoral system. …
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Constrained populism in Indonesia: Joko Widodo, electoral institutions and party power
… Within presidential systems, more specific electoral system features can also facilitate the success of populist presidential candidacies. In Indonesia, key structural and institutional correlates of populism exist in tension with some distinctive features of the country's electoral system. …
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The institutional determinants of property regime change in new democracies: the Russian Federation, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
… first-order institutions of governance and the electoral rules for choosing leaders. Overseeing both are the written or "parchment" constitutions. Constitutions are designed to distribute power among actors, generate efficiency, and govern the interactions among actors. My findings showed that …
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Alliances and Preferences: Party System Institutionalization's Potentially Intervening Role on Pre-Election Cooperation in Australia, Fiji, and Papua New Guinea
… in determining the effect of electoral rules on the behavior of political parties. Highly institutionalized systems differ across multiple dimensions--supply stability, volatility of results, and rootedness of parties--from fluid systems. Party behavior can be depicted …
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An exploration and critique of Katz and Mair's Cartel Party theory
… Katz and Mair argue that faced with declining electoral support and falling membership levels, political parties have turned towards the state in order to secure much needed resources. These resources can take the form of control over electoral rules, state funding and access to the media. At …
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Ruling with Rules: Electoral Institutions and Authoritarian Resilience in the Middle East
… among incumbent and opposition elites shape electoral system design and, in turn, particular electoral rules structure mass political attitudes and elite configurations. The main argument is that lower electoral thresholds generate unique electoral environments in which patronage politics …
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Essays on Empirical Political Economy
… public policy may be interrelated: new media, electoral systems and vote motivation. The media has the fundamental role of providing political information to voters. New media such as the Internet brought about an enormous shift in the availability of political information during elections. …
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Candidate emergence and success: Evidence from women in state legislative primary elections
… factors that influence competition, the electoral system and primary 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 …
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Central Party Authority and Constituency Campaign Discipline in Canadian Federal Elections
… campaigns under single-member-plurality (SMP) electoral rules. Central party headquarters demand cohesion and cooperation from constituency campaigns, which in turn face incentives to cater to regional and local imperatives, or even to disregard instructions and deviate from their parties in …
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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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A Marginal Returns Theory of Politics
A great deal of contemporary social science rests on a basic, ``primitive'', principle that rational agents are motivated by a quest for marginal returns to investment of time, money, and other resources. In this manuscript we argue that an analogue fundamental principle guides much of modern …
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Iraq: The Way Forward—a Political Strategy to Win & End the War in Iraq
… political factions.</p> <p>The political and electoral system emplaced in Iraq incentivizes elites and political entities to undertake factional identities; in doing so, it promotes identity politics. The current system also fails to filter the contests for power through the electoral system. …
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Substitution effect through fiscal transfers?! : incidence of the Peruvian property tax
… the central government permanently changed the rules of the game, giving municipalities reduced predictability of policy choices. There are no relevant signs that a stronger property tax is captured by Peruvian interest groups. Since the central government has responsibility for tax regulation …