Direct democracy is extraordinarily popular and has become a pervasive policymaking tool at the state and local level … variable, we model the extent to which institutional evaluations of direct democracy influence voting behavior in ballot … direct democracy are more likely to vote yes, while those who are apprehensive about voting on ballot measures are more …

. This paper tests these expectations using Varieties of Democracy data for 460 elections in 110 authoritarian regimes from …

paper shall focus on Ghana's democratic periodic election, which came out of Ghana's multi-party Democracy system, in 1992 ….As a result of the democratic periodic election feature, an independent body called the EC was constituted by a … constitutional instrument, to conduct a free, fair and transparent periodic election for the presidential, parliamentary and district …

Despite their joint relevance to democracy, no article to date has attempted to analyze election law alongside …, this Article concludes that, while election law is imbued with democratic principles to guide courts and policymakers … doctrinal differences, and in light of the importance of education to democracy, this Article advocates a policy of democratic …

democracy and long term party attachments to guide their voting behavior. However, voters in new democracies do not have these … 1990 Cross-National Election Project German Unification election study, I examine the information sources West and East …