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Is internet access bad news for media-capturing incumbents?

Martínez-Torres, Hans; Gámez Garza, Cesáreo - In: Journal of applied economics 22 (2019) 1, pp. 527-553

This paper's objective is to investigate the effects of internet access on voter behavior in governor elections at the state level in aconsolidating democracy. Using a fractional probit model for panel data, we analyze the electoral outcomes in 31 Mexican states and Mexico City during state/city...

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Did austerity cause Brexit?

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018

Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...

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Transnationalizing democracy properly : principles and rules for granting consociated citizens voting rights and partisan representation in the parliaments of nation states

Blatter, Joachim - 2018

" voting rights and partisan representation in the parliaments of nation states. The first two sections point to failed … system. Next, I show how fuzzy set theory paves the way to reconceptualize political inclusion in such a way that inclusion … daran zeige ich auf, wie die "fuzzy set theory" den Weg für eine Rekonzeptualisierung politischer Inklusion ebnet, der …

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The men who weren't even there : legislative voting with absentees

Kóczy, László Á.; Pintér, Miklós - 2011

change decisions. This theory is often applied to weighted voting situations, where voters can cast multiple votes. Measuring …Voting power in voting situations is measured by the probability of changing decisions by altering the cast 'yes' or … will be present, a thin majority may quickly melt away making a coalition that is winning in theory a losing one in …