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Flis, Jarosław; Kaminski, Marek - In: Public choice 190 (2022) 3/4, pp. 345-363

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Partisan and bipartisan gerrymandering

Konishi, Hideo; Pan, Chen-Yu - 2016

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Electoral Maldistricting

Gomberg, Andrei - 2020

We introduce a framework to examine, both theoretically and empirically, electoral maldistricting. Maldistricting is defined as districting in pursuit of a policy at the expense of social welfare. Analysis is performed on the set of implementable (via some district map) legislatures, which are...

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Quorum and Turnout in Referenda

Herrera, Helios; Mattozzi, Andrea - 2007

We analyze the effect of turnout requirements in referenda in the context of a group turnout model. We show that a participation quorum requirement may reduce the turnout so severely that it generates a "quorum paradox": in equilibrium, the expected turnout exceeds the participation quorum only...

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Universal, Unequal Suffrage : Authoritarian Vote-Seat Malapportionment in the 1907 Austrian Electoral Reform

Thomson, Henry - 2015

share of the population. Analyzing the introduction of universal male suffrage in Austria in 1907, I show that this reform … along an urban-rural cleavage. Instead, reform resulted in an electoral system which perpetuated the under-representation of … urban Polish elites. This solved the regime’s problem of controlling urban unrest by satisfying demands for electoral reform …

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Bosnia and Herzegovina Between Parity and Proportionality : Reforms, Electoral Law and Fundamental Constitutional Principles

Kulanić, Ahmed - 2018

Since the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement on December 14th in Paris 1995, the political but also general social scene of Bosnia and Herzegovina has been overwhelmed with the issues of reforms and changes in regard to the Constitutional settlement agreed in Dayton. The Bosnian-Herzegovinian...

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The impact of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition : evidence from a natural experiment

Drometer, Marcus; Rincke, Johannes - 2008

Measuring the effect of ballot access restrictions on electoral competition is complicated because the stringency of ballot access regulations cannot be treated as being exogenous to candidates' entry decisions. This paper exploits the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Ohio's...

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The retrenchment hypothesis and the extension of the Franchise in England and Wales

Aidt, Toke; Daunton, Martin J.; Dutta, Jayasri - 2008

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Media, secret ballot and democratization in the US

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Riaño, Juan Felipe; Song, B. K. - 2020

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Games prisoners do not play : against the Hobbes-Zimbardo approach of unmitigated prison violence

Kaminski, Marek - In: Journal of institutional economics 18 (2022) 3, pp. 483-500

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