town council election?; (2) Does this partisan identity influence in ensuing higher level elections?; and (3) Do voters … condition their vote for the mayor on the result of the last council election? We collected a unique data set for Germany in … which we link election results for different political institutions at the municipal level. To identify causal effects, we …

interested in: Does the partisan identity of the mayor influence the voter's decision in the subsequent town council election … the mayor on the result of the last council election? We rely on a regression discontinuity design focusing on close … election outcomes based on municipal level data for Germany. We find that the party of the mayor can receive a bonus of 4 …

We use voting experiments to examine the effects of different primary types on voter turnout, voter choice and election … does not impact election outcomes …

Many matters of U.S. election administration have attracted significant popular, political, and scholarly attention in … recent years, especially after Bush v. Gore. Largely slighted, however, has been the matter of how the various state election … systems respond when an election outcome is unsettled or contested. Moreover, some recent electoral reforms, such as …

associated with a strong positive effect on the probability of winning the same position in the following election, whereas …

country political stability.From the statistic provided by Wikipedia, the countries rare have an election threshold less than … 3% of the votes cast. In fact, the developed countries, with the advanced economies, rare have election threshold below … 5% of the votes cast.In practice, the 5% election threshold would require from a political party to gain 7.5 seats in …