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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"minor parties"”.
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Minor Parties In English Local Government
This thesis examines the electoral 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 …
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Minor parties and democratic governance in Ghana's fourth republic, 1992 - 2022
… the rising interest in party politics in Africa, minor party activism remains largely understudied, particularly in the context of plurality-based two-party systems. This study therefore examined minor parties in Ghana’s emergent two-party system (1992-2022), with the aim of investigating their …
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Running from the Periphery: An Exploratory Analysis of Women Presidential Candidates in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Utility of Minor Parties
… do women run for major party labels versus minor party labels or as independent candidates? What factors explain those patterns of party representation for women presidential candidates in the region? I hypothesize that women are altogether less likely than men to run for president. When …
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Developing methods for understanding the nature of voting patterns and party competition in Britain
… across the capital, particularly support for minor parties. A considerable amount of research effort has been expended upon providing reliable models for electoral forecasting both in the UK and elsewhere. The third section includes a paper that develops a forecast model that utilises …
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Chasing the vote : developments in the ways political parties conduct election campaigns
The methods political parties use to engage the electorate during election campaigns undergo a continual process of re-evaluation and modification; this study seeks to further understanding of this process by proposing the concept of a toolkit of techniques from which those who plan campaigns make …
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The Legislative Consequences of Electoral Reform: Adoption of the Mixed-Member System in Taiwan
… of party labels. After the reform, big parties started to dominate in single-member districts, and minor parties almost disappeared from parliament. At the micro-level, I found that legislative conflict in Taiwan is well captured by one dimension that reflects partisan divisions over its …