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competition. As existing research conceptualizes political competition mainly as a macro- or party-level phenomenon, the micro … perspective remains underdeveloped and, therefore, an important dimension of political competition, the availability of votes, is … ignored. We introduce and discuss an individualized measure of electoral competition that is based on propensities to vote as …
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This thesis deals with the measurement of voting power in different decision environments. After a short introduction in Chapter 1, several established concepts for power analysis are reviewed and applied in Chapters 2 and 3. Chapters 4 and 5 step on new ground by introducing a power index for a...
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In May 2014, EU citizens will vote in the most important European Parliament elections to date. With the new powers allocated to it by the Lisbon Treaty, the new European Parliament will shape EU policies in many important areas and will elect the President of the Commission. However, public...
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Voters who participate in elections to the European Parliament tend to use these elections to punish their domestic governing parties. Many students of the EU therefore claim that the party-political composition of the Parliament should systematically differ from that of the Council. This study,...
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