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The third vote experiment : VAA-based election to enhance policy representation of the KIT student parliament
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2016
that are in opposition to their policy preferences. This results in the election of representatives who do not correspond … exactly to the voters' own views. An alternative voting procedure to avoid this type of election failure is proposed in … Wahl-O-Mat, which asks the user a number of questions on topical policy issues; the computer program, drawing on all the …
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Policy representation by German parties at the 2017 federal election
Tanguiane, Andranick S. - 2017
) election. For this purpose, the party positions on 31 topical issues are compared with the results of recent public opinion …
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Cyclical group preferences in national elections
Knoll, Bodo; Serra, Joan - In: The empirical economics letters : a monthly … 17 (2018) 6, pp. 713-718
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Candidates’ policy strategies in primary elections : does strategic voting by the primary electorate matter?
Adams, James F.; Merrill, Samuel - In: Public choice 160 (2014) 1/2, pp. 7-24
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The Incentives and Effectiveness of Vote Buying : A Comparison of SNTV and FPTP Voting Systems
Wu, Chin-En - 2011
We examine the effect of electoral system on vote-buying incentives and the effectiveness of vote buying. We find that under SNTV greater numbers of candidates in a district, larger district magnitude, or higher effective threshold are all associated with prevalent vote-buying practices. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178125
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Polarization and the US Electoral College
Siderius, James - 2020
candidate wins the election according to the electoral college, but loses the popular vote. We then consider how this likelihood …. We conclude that rising polarization of political beliefs leading up to the 2020 election has made these two election …
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The impact of the legislative environment on the European Parliamentary elections in Romania
Prihoancă, Diana Magdalena - In: Studies and scientific researches / Economics edition / … 19 (2014), pp. 222-228
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Election systems, the "beauty premium" in politics, and the beauty of dissent
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösch, Marcus; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020
We ask three questions. First, do election systems differ in how they translate physical attractiveness of candidates … German election system that combines first-past-the-post election with party-list proportional representation, our results …
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Election systems, the "beauty premium" in politics, and the beauty of dissent
Potrafke, Niklas; Rösch, Marcus; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2020
We ask three questions. First, do election systems differ in how they translate physical attractiveness of candidates … German election system that combines first-past-the-post election with party-list proportional representation, our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219353
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Dancing with the Populist : new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections
Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020
This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...
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