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The Electoral Geography of Violence in Iraq
Selway, Joel - 2011
. 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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Criminality and Incumbency of Candidates to the National Legislature in India
Tiwari, Devesh - 2011
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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Winning Isn't Everything : The Impact of Presidential Campaign Appearances on Behalf of House Candidates in U.S. Midterm Elections, 1982-2006
Mellen, Rob - 2011
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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Forced Consent : Information and Power in Non-Democratic Elections
Rozenas, Arturas - 2011
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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Constituency Campaigning at the 2010 British General Election
Fisher, Justin - 2010
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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...
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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...
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The Down-Ballot Problem : Concurrent Elections and Cognitive Limitations on Voting Behavior
Andersen, David J. - 2010
Using ANES data on political knowledge and opinions about government, this research examines the electorate's ability to cast rational votes based simply upon the number of major contests on the ballot. Focusing particularly upon knowledge of house and senate candidates, this also has...
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Fiscal Governance and Electoral Accountability : Evidence from Late Budgets
Lassen, David Dreyer - 2010
process at election day. We find that legislatures face significant negative electoral consequences of not finishing a budget …
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The British General Election of 2010 : The Results Analysed
Curtice, John K. - 2010
The 2010 election was fought against the backdrop of both economic recession and political scandal. Yet although the … time since 1945, no one party secured an overall majority. In this paper we analyse the constituency level election results …
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