Showing 1 - 10 of 776
alternative Third Vote election method. Under the Third Vote, electors cast no votes for parties by name. The electoral ballot … defense spending?'-Yes/No, etc.), and the parties answer to these questions before the elections - as required by the Wahl …. Finally, we discuss mixed election procedures combining the Third Vote with the conventional voting by party name and analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800829
Study of Majority Voting in Director Elections analyzes the initial roll-out and rapid success of the movement to require that directors be elected by a majority vote, rather than a plurality. As documented in the Study, only 16% of the companies in the S&P 500 were known to have adopted some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033040
The role of electoral incentives vs. selection is ideally analyzed in a setting where the same legislators are selected to decide on policies under different electoral rules and where voter preferences on policies can be precisely measured. This is the first paper to look at such a situation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286323
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279849
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726740
1975 - 2010, and subnationally, using a new data set on subnational election results and oil production in Nigeria. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512547
unknown and party-identification cannot be used to distinguish them. This case often appears in election systems with either … experimental exit-poll of voters at local elections in two German states in 2014 in which respondents faced a hypothetical election … translates directly into a greater willingness to take part in the hypothetical election (“turnout”), especially for individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483220
Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, nonmainstream parties if the latters ́electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal state of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505165
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480122
Do established parties change political institutions to disadvantage smaller, non-mainstream parties if the latters' electoral prospects improve? We study this question with a natural experiment from the German federal State of Hesse. The experiment is the abolishment of an explicit electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484319