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Under the system of appointing regional governors by the president, which existed in Russia between 2005-2012, governors' loyalty to the central government and particularly their ability to deliver satisfactory results to the ruling party in national-level elections were crucial to their...
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Under the system of appointing regional governors by the president, which existed in Russia between 2005-2012, governors' loyalty to the central government and particularly their ability to deliver satisfactory results to the ruling party in national-level elections were crucial to their...
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Weak electoral registration requirements are commonly thought to encourage electoral participation, but may also promote electoral fraud. For one, candidates and their supporters can more easily mobilize voters outside the district to register and vote for the candidates, even though these...
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Does online social media undermine authoritarianism? We examine the conditions under which online social networks can increase public awareness of electoral fraud in non-democracies. We argue that a given online social network will only increase political awareness if it is first politicized by...
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Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on …
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capacity installed. Judicial inquiries have uncovered several episodes of involvement of Mafia families in the rich wind power … municipality is higher if in the local territory there is a mafia family, whereas wind speed is (surprisingly) not significant … investment. Hence the episodes unveiled by courts are paralleled by a wider correlation of mafia family entrenchment in a …
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