Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"electoral systems"”.
-
SUB-NATIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND MINORITY PARTIES IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY
… thesis analyses the extent to which particular electoral system features and rules affect the opportunities for, and proportionality of, the representation of certain far right and regionalist at various sub-national levels in key European Community member states. The thesis employs data …
-
Electoral Systems and Ethnic Conciliation: A Structured, Focused Analysis of Vote-Pooling in Northern Ireland Elections 1998–2011
<p>This research project examines the role of electoral system rules in affecting the extent of conciliatory behavior and cross-ethnic coalition making in Northern Ireland. It focuses on the role of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) electoral system in shaping party and voter incentives in a …
-
The Legislator -Constituent relationship in Southern Africa: The extent to which electoral competitiveness, electoral systems and role orientation affect levels of constituency service conducted by legislators
… began the transition to multiparty democratic systems. Within this process, democratic institutions were established and then have since played varied roles in normalizing of democratic norms in their respective countries. The elites who make these institutions play a vital role in maintaining …
-
A Preventive Approach to Post-Election Conflicts in Contemporary Africa
… (H1): In Africa, countries that use majoritarian electoral systems are more likely to experience post-election conflicts than are countries that use proportional electoral systems, (H2): In Africa, countries that use majoritarian electoral systems are more likely to experience post-election …
-
Volební formule poměrného zastoupení pod vlivem většinotvorných prvků (na příkladu voleb do Poslanecké sněmovny 1992-2021)
127 Electoral formula of proportional representation under the influence of majority elements (on the example of the Czech parliamentary elections 1992- 2021) Abstract This rigorous thesis deals with legal regulations of proportional electoral systems, focusing on the specific constitutional …
-
Political Factors Predicting Renewable Energy Research and Development Levels: Mixed Results in Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development Countries from 1990-2000.
… democracies and proportional legislative electoral systems have higher levels of renewable energy R&D than majoritarian electoral systems. However, these results should be interpreted cautiously as the impact of other political variables on renewable energy R&D, government composition and …
-
Women's Legislative Representation: Attitudes and Institutions
… and two types of political institutions: electoral systems and gender quotas, are described and tested quantitatively and are found to be significant in some models. There are four brief case studies examining women’s legislative representation based on the variables used in the …
-
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. …
-
Online Elections in Terra Australis
… widespread use of many varieties of preferential electoral systems. Online and electronic election systems can be of great benefit in addressing many of these problems, and indeed many such systems are currently in use or at least being considered. However online and electronic elections magnify …
-
Agency under Capital Mobility: Domestic Political Institutions and the Policy Autonomy/ Exchange Rate Stability Tradeoff
… governments in proportional representation electoral systems tend to choose policy autonomy with greaterexchange rate variability. Conversely, rightist-led governments and single-party governments in majoritarian electoral systems opt for policy convergence to achieve exchange rate …
-
Developments in Complex Systems Science with Applications to Political Systems and Pandemic Response
… many complex physical, biological, and social systems. Complex systems science clarifies when and why such assumptions fail and provides alternative frameworks for understanding the properties of complex systems. We review some of the basic principles of complex systems science and provide a …
-
Donors versus dictators : the impact of multilateral aid conditionality on democratization : Kenya and Malawi in comparative context
… ability of the emerging constitutional and electoral systems to channel ethnic and clientelist politics in democratic directions, factors which have so far been beyond the scope and level of coherence of donor policy.
-
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 …
-
Perceptions of electoral fairness : public behaviour and institutional design compared across 80 countries
… conducts a cross-national analysis of perceived electoral fairness across 80 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The main research question is focused on uncovering the determinants of perceived electoral fairness. The thesis focuses on two broad groups of variables and the …
-
Perceptions of electoral fairness : public behaviour and institutional design compared across 80 countries
… conducts a cross-national analysis of perceived electoral fairness across 80 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The main research question is focused on uncovering the determinants of perceived electoral fairness. The thesis focuses on two broad groups of variables and the …
-
Containing the opposition : selective representation in Jordan and Turkey
… addresses an underexplored topic in the study of electoral politics: the manipulation of election systems in order to achieve selective representation. I focus on the experience of opposition parties in two cases, Jordan and Turkey, an autocracy and a democracy, to analyze the impact of engineered …
-
Aluta Continua: Social Movements and the Making of Ghana's Fourth Republic, 1978 - 1993
… problems. A perennial problem was the abuse of electoral systems which provided legitimate ways to political participation. Authoritarian governments in Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Togo and Zimbabwe used multiparty elections to legitimize and entrench their rules. Incumbents brazenly rigged …
Page 1 of 2