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This article provides an exegesis of the recently entered-into-force African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance. Democracy has a decidedly mixed history in Africa and, despite a concerted effort by the African Union (AU), it has made only halting inroads in those states that are...
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state legislation (whether Republican-sponsored or Democratic-sponsored) attacking voting rights or threatening election …
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proposes requiring jurisdictions to provide a Voter Impact Statement (VIS) to the Election Assistance Commission, which is an … office created in the Help America Vote to provide assistance in election administration issues, certifying that proposed … major election administration legislation does not disparately impact America's unwanted voters. The use of impact …
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to be some consensus on a model. Yet at present the movement is deadlocked between a direct election model and a … single candidate to face the voters along with any other nominees in an open popular election; (2) “Fifty-Fifty” being a … see the former’s own tenure expire 75 days after the holding of the ensuing election (subject to possible re-election …
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competition and decision making, and inhibits investment in efficient business assets. The proposed election addresses these …
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This short paper examines the recent history of election financing laws in Canada, and then looks briefly at three …
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Union institutions, and so on). Many politicians get into office through a democratic election, while others are selected or …
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fictional tax election that perfectly separates taxpayers of one type (honest compliers) from taxpayers of the second type … (dishonest evaders). Building on this illustration, the author applies the theory of screening to the most common tax election in … the United States tax context: the election to itemize one's tax-deductible expenses. A taxpayer's choice to itemize can …
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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 …
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equilibrium policy is smaller, because their bargaining power is reduced compared to a single ballot election. The predictions on …
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