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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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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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The Next American Voter : The Political Demography of American Partisanship
Kaufmann, Eric; Skirbekk, Vegard - 2021
The recent rise and stability in macropartisanship has focused interest upon the long-term dynamics of party bases. Commentators cite immigration and youth as forces which will produce a natural Democratic advantage in the future while conservative writers highlight the importance of high...
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A Simulation Analysis of the Effect of Party Identification on Finnish Parties' Optimal Positions
Papageorgiou, Achillefs - 2010
The Finnish National Election Study of 2003 revealed that in Finland most voters do not identify with parties and are self-described as independents. In this article it is asserted that partisan attachments affect Finnish parties’ optimal positions despite the large amount of independents. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204898
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Weighing the Alternatives : Preferences, Parties, and Constituency in Roll Call Voting
Ramey, Adam - 2009
Theories of parties and lawmaking typically require measures of legislators' preferences for empirical analysis. However, existing methods for generating estimates of these preferences presume that legislators care only about their own policy preferences and not about their constituency or party...
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Democracy Without Parties? Explaining Party Under-Institutionalization in Korea
Lee, Yoonkyung - 2010
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Party and Constituency Influence on Procedural and Final Passage Voting in the U.S. House
Jessee, Stephen; Theriault, Sean M. - 2009
Most analyses of congressional voting, whether theoretical or empirical, treat all roll call votes in the same way. We argue that such approaches mask considerable variation in voting behavior across different categories of votes. An examination of all recorded roll call votes in the U.S. House...
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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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Comparing Voter Participation : Individual Resources, Orientations and the Context of Party Politics
Kittilson, Miki C.; Anderson, Christopher J. - 2009
Electoral institutions shape the potential costs and benefits of participation. We argue that, by shaping the range and diversity of choices available to voters, electoral institutions can pull citizens into the democratic process by making voting meaningful. Our analyses of data from 29...
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Party Cohesion Through Perceived Preference Coherence : An Analysis of Voting Networks in the European Parliament
Ringe, Nils - 2009
This paper uses co-voting rates between members of the European Parliament as a social network measure and investigates the structure of EP co-voting networks. It argues that the propensity of members of the same legislative party to cast like-votes is largely attributable to 'perceived...
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