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From Electoral to Policy Representation : A Comparison of 34 Democracies

Cerami, Alfio - 2019

importance of policy representation as a useful conceptual tool for the study of democracy, as well as the role that ideas …

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Effects of Electoral Security on Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria

clement, Ifeanyi - 2020

government and the citizen among other issues. In order to solve the problems bedeviling our democracy, a multi faceted approach …

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Economic Development and Democracy : An Electoral Connection

Knutsen, Carl Henrik - 2016

This study takes a new tack on the question of modernization and democracy, focused on the outcome of theoretical … interest. We argue that economic development affects the electoral component of democracy but has minimal impact on other …) elections provide a focal point for collective action. The theory is tested with two new datasets – Varieties of Democracy and …

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A Banana Republic? Trust in Electoral Institutions in Western Democracies - Evidence from a Presidential Election in Austria

Potrafke, Niklas - 2017

We examine the extent to which political scandals influence trust in electoral institutions in established Western democracies. The second ballot of the 2016 Presidential election in Austria needed to be repeated because of inconsistencies in individual electoral districts (scandal districts)....

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The Impact of Electronic Voting Machines on Electoral Frauds, Democracy, and Development

Debnath, Sisir - 2017

Free and fair elections are cornerstones of democracy. In India, electronic voting machines (EVMs) were introduced with … its impact on electoral fraud, democracy, and development. Our main findings are: (i) Introductions of EVMs led to a …

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Electoral Accountability and Responsive Democracy

Duggan, John - 2015

We consider a canonical two-period model of elections with adverse selection (hidden preferences) and moral hazard (hidden actions), in which neither voters nor politicians can commit to future choices. We prove existence of electoral equilibria, and we show that office holders mix between...

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Turnout Across Democracies

Herrera, Helios - 2014

World democracies widely differ in electoral rules, as well as in legislative, executive or legal institutions. Different institutional environments induce different mappings from electoral outcomes to the distribution of power. We explore how these mappings affect voters' participation to an...

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Turnout Across Democracies

Herrera, Helios - 2014

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Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions : Why Some Democracies Redistribute More than Others

Iversen, Torben - 2008

Standard political economy models of redistribution, notably that of Meltzer and Richard (1981), fail to account for the remarkable variance in government redistribution across democracies. We develop a general model of redistribution that explains why some democratic governments are more prone...

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Electoral Democracy at Work

Askenazy, Philippe - 2020

We show that an institutional change designed expressly to heighten competition for the provision of union services can have a substantial effect on unionization and employment relations. We study a French reform of 2008 that introduced mandatory elections for representation of workers at firm,...

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