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The success of far right politicians in many European countries poses a dilemma to established actors: prosecuting these politicians may seem advisable from a legal point of view, but from an electoral point of view such means may turn them into martyrs. We have conducted a survey experiment to...
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This study investigates the effect of the imposition of term limits on the number of women elected to state legislatures in the United States. It uses a multivariate regression model, which differs from earlier works by utilizing a pooled, time-series data set of state legislatures, from...
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. I find that election violence did increase during election periods, and that they did so in districts where partisan … competition was the highest. Even though the results show that election violence was lower when the two largest parties were of …) the higher the violence. The number of ethnic groups was not found to be a significant determinant of election violence …
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Utilizing new data on criminal charges against candidates to India's Fourteenth and Fifteenth Lok Sabha elections, we study the conditions that resulted in approximately a quarter of those elected to each legislature facing or having previously faced criminal charges. We show that Indian...
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appearances may have positive effects on both a candidate's vote share and the level of voter turnout on election day. I conclude …
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The paper proposes a mechanism explaining how elections may stabilize an autocratic regime even if they are evidently unfree and unfair. Instead of being meaningless rituals, non-democratic elections can help the autocrats in managing and communicating the public information about the regime's...
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