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Restoring Electoral Equilibrium in the Wake of Electoral Bonds Scheme for Electoral Donations

S, Zeenia; Paul, Jehosh - 2021

This Essay attempts to capture and describe the fundamental tension that now exists in the Indian electoral funding system and considers the issues this tension presents for electoral politics in general. Instead of building a case for, or against, the constitutionality of the Electoral Bonds...

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Runoff Elections in the Laboratory

Bouton, Laurent - 2019

We study experimentally the properties of the majority runoff system and compare them to the ones of plurality rule, in the setup of a divided majority. Our focus is on Duverger's famous predictions that the plurality rule leads to a higher coordination of votes on a limited number of candidates...

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How Likely Is It that Courts Will Select the US President? The Probability of Narrow, Reversible Election Results in the Electoral College versus a National Popular Vote

Geruso, Michael - 2020

Extremely narrow election outcomes--such as could be reversed by rejecting a few thousand ballots--are likely to … College system. Starting from probabilistic simulations of likely presidential election outcomes that are similar to the … output from election forecasting models, we calculate the likelihood of disputable, narrow outcomes under the Electoral …

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Elected Versus Appointed Policymakers : Evidence from City Treasurers

Whalley, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates whether methods of public official selection affect policymaking in cities. I draw on the unique characteristics of California's city referendum process to identify the causal effect of city treasurers' method of selection on their cities' debt management policies. I...

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Winning coalitions in plurality voting democracies

Brink, René van den; Dimitrov, Dinko; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - In: Social choice and welfare 56 (2021) 3, pp. 509-530

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Entry into electoral races and the quality of representation

Tillmann, Philipp - 2014

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To the electors of Massachusetts

Whig Party (Mass.) / State Central Committee - 1837

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To the electors of Leith, Newhaven, Portobello, Musselburgh, and Fisherrow, district of Burghs

Rutherfurd, Andrew - 1841

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Malta and the 2019 EP elections : maximising popular engagement with "Europe"

Cachia, Jean Claude; Ellul, Fabrizio; Harwood, Mark; … - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 5 (2020) 4, pp. 305-322

, the paper seeks to understand why the Maltese engage with a second order election to the degree that they do. Design …

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A micro perspective on political competition : electoral availability in the European electorates

Wagner, Aiko - 2017

This article develops an empirical measure of electoral availability, i.e., the micro perspective of political competition. As existing research conceptualizes political competition mainly as a macro- or party-level phenomenon, the micro perspective remains underdeveloped and, therefore, an...

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