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Defense against small parties: electoral reforms and their impact on Tunisia’s electoral system since the Arab Spring
Tunisia’s political system suffers from recurrent problems with governability and proportionality. A volatile party landscape, frequent cabinet...
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Electoral Reform in Lebanon
Lebanon’s consociational system is unique in the Mediterranean region. It guarantees political representation to all major confessional communities...
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Socioeconomic anxieties and electoral polarization: insights from Belgian federal elections at the municipal level
Polarization is increasingly seen as a phenomenon with far reaching and precarious consequences that extend beyond politics. Despite the extensive...
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Pre-electoral and Electoral Manipulation
This chapter defines the types of electoral manipulation that this book examines. In addition to the manipulative strategies that are analyzed, there...
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Electoral Violence
The concept of electoral violence generally has to do with the various forms of organized psychological, physical, and structural threats/acts whose...
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Electoral reforms in Italy: the continuing quest for stability and proportionality
The article examines the ongoing search in Italy for electoral rules that both ensure the proportionality and provide reliable majorities for stable...
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Assessing electoral volatility through ecological inference: the case of the 2014 and 2020 municipal elections in Montpellier
This article contributes to the study of electoral volatility in two-round majority elections by examining the 2014 and 2020 municipal elections in...
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Partisanship, Electoral Autocracy, and Citizen Perceptions of Party System Polarization
This paper examines how partisanship and electoral autocracy (vis-à-vis democracy) influence people’s perceptions of party system polarization in...
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After a Storm Come Votes: Identifying the Effects of Disaster Relief on Electoral Outcomes
The retrospective voting theory suggests that citizens vote for governing parties in response to distributive benefits. Knowing this, governments may...
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Electoral Stability
This chapter examines the electoral stability of the Polish delegation in the European Parliament and its relationship to the national party system....
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Electoral Reform
This chapter deals with the reform of the electoral system at the lower house (House of Representatives) of the parliament in the early 1990s. The...
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Electoral (non)alignment between resident and non-resident voters: evidence from Spain
Over the past decades, diasporas’ engagement in homeland elections has become a highly salient issue, especially given the widespread implementation...
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Outcome Isn’t Everything: Electoral Consequences of Implementing or Withdrawing Unpopular Policies
Incumbents often make unpopular policy decisions. But can they remedy their negative electoral consequences? We extend the wide literature concerning...
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Electoral reform in authoritarian regimes: veto player uncertainty in Jordan
What explains the move of Jordan to a proportional representation (PR) electoral system in 2016 but not in 2012? This is puzzling given the high...
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When do active citizens abstain from the polls? Civic associations, non-electoral participation, and voting in 21st-century democracies
One of the most consistent findings in the literature is that non-electoral political participation has a positive and robust association with...
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Politicking with evidence: examining evidence-based issues in electoral policy narratives
The construction, influence, and strategic use of narratives to influence policy decisions have garnered increased scholarly attention over the past...
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A Historical and Political Analysis of the Electoral System Development in Contemporary Russia: A Look into Russia’s Parliamentary Democracy
The electoral institution ensures the free expression of the will of the citizens in the choice of the ruler. The electoral institution is going...
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Do rural electoral institutions reflect public opinion in China? Evidence from village elections
Drawing on a field survey of 116 villages in rural China conducted by the authors in 2005, we analyze whether and to what extent the official...
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Barriers (and catalysts) of institutional change: The (almost) non-reform of the Portuguese electoral system (1983–2021)
The literature on electoral system change has focused on the motivations of the political actors who initiate these legislative processes. However,...
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Exit or Voice? Behavioral Implications of Electoral-Integrity Beliefs in Germany
Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of representative democracy. In recent years, however, elections in many advanced democracies have...
