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Local Campaigns are frequently studied phenomena in the context of first past the post voting systems such as the UK. They draw less attention in proportional list systems or mixedmember systems. Students of electoral politics assume for these systems a predominant role of political parties...
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campaigns: the type of judicial election and the competitiveness of the race. Thus, there appeared to be systematic differences …
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We study the impact of organized crime on electoral competition. In a theoretical model where parties compete for mafia support, we show that (i) the strongest party is willing to pay the highest price to secure mafia services; (ii) the volume of electoral trade with the mafia increases with...
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We present the OLIGO model, a multi-agent simulation of oligarchy. We extend previous multi-agent-based, spatial models of democracy by adding a new class of agents, oligarchs, which represent leaders of firms in a common industry who lobby for beneficial subsidies through campaign donations. We...
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building within organizations, political election campaigning, policy making, with social movement building among organizations … the model to shorten the time to complete the work of Newt Gingrich's 1984 re-election campaign to the US House of … Representatives. 600 Election volunteers were organized into 100 quality circles and themselves designed aspects of Newt Gringrich …
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voting behavior, rather than voting intentions, on a multi-party election on the first round, and validate their predictions … on a two-party election in the final round. They provide political consultants and candidates with rich and factual data … first round in the most recent election (2014) to demonstrate how the political analyst and consultant can use the vote …
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This paper examines political party mobilization on European Union issues during national election campaigns. We … our expectations using data from party press releases in Austrian general election campaigns in 2008 and 2013. We find …
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We study the connection between religion and political radicalization in Weimar Germany, where the Catholic Church vehemently warned ordinary parishioners about the dangers of National Socialism. Methodologically, we show that instrumental variables techniques are useful not only for making...
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In previous European elections, Polish political parties were not able to draw a large number of voters to the polling stations. Poland stood out in the European Union mainly by its extremely low turnout. In light of the current situation in the Polish political scene, this EPIN Commentary...
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Political campaigns are usually seen either as a way of passing information about candidates' intended policies to the voters or as a political liability of the candidates towards the interest groups that finance them. We provide a different interpretation of political campaigns using a...
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