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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"state elections"”.
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The role of polls for election forecasting in German state elections
German state elections are in focus of this work due to the decreasing importance of the "catch all parties" and rise of the AfD in 2013. As small parties like the AfD first reached the 5% threshold in state parliaments (e.g. in the Saxony state election 2014), state elections can be used as …
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Party Voting In The American States: How National Factors And Institutional Variation Affect State Elections
… cycle, and presidential approval influence state legislative and gubernatorial elections? Second, how does variation in state government power mediate how state elections are influenced by those national factors? I approach the first question by testing existing theories that help to explain …
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Political Consequences of Reapportionment on the Tenth Legislative District of Washington State
… <p>(4) The effect of increased power in state elections as the segments become more influential in the total district.</p>
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Political Participation in a Digital Age: An Integrated Perspective on the Impacts of the Internet on Voter Turnout
… and secretly over the Internet. In the United States some areas have already used Internet voting systems for local and state elections. Many researchers argue that one of the most important social impacts of Internet voting is the effect it could have on voter participation. Numerous studies …
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The Relationship Between an Incumbent Governor's Popularity and State Legislative Election Outcomes: A Contemporary Assessment of the Coattails Phenomenon
… between an incumbent governor's popularity and state legislative election outcomes in the contemporary era. The study employs data collected from 49 states over a 16-year period (1988 - 2003). Existing archival election and economic data were compiled, compared and analyzed using regression …
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Empirical studies in public economics in developing countries
… Economic Policy in India, studies the effect of state legislative assembly elections on the economic policies of state governments in 14 major states of India, over the period 1960-1994. The effect of the timing of elections on economic policies is identified using an instrument for the electoral …
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The Fugitive Slave Law, Antislavery and the Emergence of the Republican Party in Indiana
… the Compromise of 1850 between the Northern free states and the Southern slave states was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. For decades slaveholders had complained of the difficulties encountered in reclaiming their fugitive slaves and demanded stronger legislation to deal with the problem. …
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Factors affecting farm productivity in rural India: social networks and market access
… increase in agricultural loans associated with state elections as the exogenous shock to credit supply. Second, we ask how access to open markets associates with farm gate prices, and whether those with greater access to markets are better able to take advantage of the credit increase. We find …
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The Unmotivated Voter: A Profile of the Unregistered and Non-Participating in Oregon, Washington, and Colorado.
… presence of voting by mail in the three states included in the research. Previous research on the institution of voting by mail, which is examined in depth, sought to determine whether or not VBM has had the expected result of increasing the relative participation, including among …