The paper explores how politicians in established democracies respond to election outcome in terms of attitudinal …

months during the Polish National Election Study’s two-wave panel study (N=1,200) spanning parliamentary and presidential …

In what ways do elections serve as instruments of democracy in Africa? Based on a multi-level analysis of Afrobarometer … elections (accountability and representation) on their confidence in African parliaments. While majoritarian electoral systems …

campaigning and post-election violence. Why do so many democracies — old and new, diverse and homogenous — experience election … election violence, I describe the enigmatic historical and contemporary patterns of election violence that contemporary … election violence — an undertaking that responds to one of the first studies in political science to call attention to the …

governance ability. In 1994, the opposition party, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), won the Taipei City mayoral election … election, and has continued to control it since then. Comparing voting behavior and participation in this municipal city would …

processes” (2006, 582). These trends suggest that election campaigns matter more than in the past - because voters’ preferences … them in the context of the 2005 general election. We find that while perceptions of Blair’s competence, responsiveness, and …