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Why Politicians don't Protest Elections -- Losers' Consent in Established Democracies
Esaiasson, Peter - 2009
The paper explores how politicians in established democracies respond to election outcome in terms of attitudinal … voluntary acceptance perspective adds insight about the forces that motivates politicians to consent. Politicians (and citizens … politicians that are elected to office. Indeed, given standard institutional arrangement of representative democracies, losing …
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Democracy Without Parties? Explaining Party Under-Institutionalization in Korea
Lee, Yoonkyung - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204960
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Voter Choice and Partisan Representation : One Link in the Chain of Party Government
Dalton, Russell J. - 2009
Contemporary democracy is largely based on a framework of party government that connects the voters to the outputs of government using political parties as a linkage mechanism. This paper examines one aspect of this linkage process: how the public’s political orientations, based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205092
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Political Leadership in Anglophone Democracies
Bowles, Nigel; Renwick, Alan - 2009
This paper seeks to understand what political leaders do. It asks four specific questions: (1) what do leaders in the political realm do, in terms of both purposes and techniques for pursuing those purposes?; (2) what variation is there in what leaders do?; (3) what factors underpin this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205448
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Party Factions and the President
DiSalvo, Daniel - 2009
The object of this essay is to define and discuss factional constraints and look at how presidents handle them. The central lesson to be drawn is that presidents often secure change by successfully taking advantage of possibilities in a context shaped by an alignment of forces created by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205354
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Party Movement in the Policy Space Under Different Electoral Systems
Cioroianu, Iulia - 2011
I am using data on 23 OECD countries from the Comparative Manifesto Project dataset to establish that there is a positive relation between the proportionality of the electoral system and the degree to which parties change their positions on the left-right scale over time. This relation is robust...
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Explaining Correct Voting in Swiss Direct Democracy
Nai, Alessandro - 2009
The quality of a political system, and especially of a direct-democratic one, lies in the quality of the decisions citizens take. As some authors argue, this can be measured through the overall presence of "correct voting", namely the fact that even uninformed citizens can mimic the choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205063
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Making Democracy Safe : Explaining the Causes, Rise, and Decline of Coercive Campaigning and Election Violence in Old and New Democracies
Reif, Megan - 2013
of available non-coercive strategies, such as negative campaigning, vote buying, and boycotting available to politicians …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205450
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Candidate Quality and Fundraising in Canadian Federal Elections, 2004-2008
Coletto, David - 2009
This paper examines whether quality candidates raise more money in Canadian constituency elections. Using the concept of candidate quality in Canada, the paper finds that incumbents have a significant fundraising advantage in Canada while challengers with political experience or those in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205078
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Gendered Competitive Interaction and Women's Executive Electoral Success
Beckwith, Karen - 2010
male politicians in specific crisis circumstances that creates the political opportunity. In a preliminary examination of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014205095