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Party Systems, Democratic Engagement and Gender in Comparative Perspective
Kittilson, Miki C. - 2010
How do the contours of electoral systems, party systems, and women's representation affect political engagement, and are these effects different for men and women? Drawing on the World Values Study, we systematically untangle the influence of proportionality in electoral rules, the number and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140724
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Multi-Level Party Systems and the Quality of Democracy : A New Typology of Parties and Party Systems in Latin America
Suarez-Cao, Julieta - 2010
in which democratic institutions are distributed across a territory and on the quality of democracy – a key concern in … way in which they are distributed throughout the territory is crucial to account for the consolidation of democracy in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140780
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The Politician and the Vote Factory : How Funding Sources Lead to an Efficient Election Campaign?
Foucault, Martial - 2010
This paper uses a new database on campaign funding on French members of parliament to analyze their efficiency. The database includes the level of funding, as well as the origin of the resources the politicians have at their disposal. The funding sources are identified with true resources used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140277
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Personalized Candidate Campaigns in Open-Ballot PR Elections
Lutz, Georg - 2010
Open ballot PR election lead to a great amount of intra-party competition. In order to get elected, candidates have to … personal vote seeking attempts of individual candidates in the 2007 national election in Switzerland using data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140715
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More on Democracy
Ryan, Alan - 2010
This is a very simple essay, arguing that Dewey's emphasis on democracy as a social rather than a political system that … - democracy, and b) would like it. My answer is yes to a) and no to b) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140932
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Democratic Accountability and Retrospective Voting in the Lab
Woon, Jonathan - 2010
I conduct a laboratory experiment to investigate whether voters focus on the problem of electoral selection or if they instead focus on electoral sanctioning. If voters are forward-looking but also uncertain about politicians' unobservable characteristics, then it is rational to focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140419
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Party Discipline and Delegation in Brazil : Does More Discipline Translate into Less Delegation?
Gaylord, Sylvia - 2010
Recent scholarship heralds the emergence of programmatic legislative parties in Brazil capable of acting in a disciplined manner and making policy-based appeals to voters. This article uses statutory delegation to test the ability of legislative parties to limit executive policy discretion via...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140727
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An Ever-Underinstitutionalized Party System? A Critical Case Test of Ideological Partisanship
Koo, Sejin - 2011
There has been a broad consensus among scholars of party politics that party systems in new democracies differ in some essential way from those of advanced democracies, especially in the level of party system institutionalization. One of the key dimensions of party system institutionalization is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133268
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Party System Polarization and Ideological Congruence : Causal Mechanisms
Powell, G. B - 2010
. The analysis supports our expectation that polarization works somewhat differently under the different election rules. In … pre-election coalition plurality vote winner, but also through the distances of the legislative median party, the previous … government, and even the runner-up plurality party. In the SMD systems the effects are entirely through the plurality (or pre-election …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140726
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Targeting Voters on Television : Does Candidate Gender Lead to Strategic Voter Targeting?
Kolodny, Robin - 2010
The literature on gender and campaigns is rich and has evolved rapidly. The most persistent topic in gender and campaigning has to do with media coverage of candidate campaigns. Next, studies of the content of political advertising emerged with a heavy emphasis on the imagery and issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140532