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On the frontline of democracy: poll workers’ evaluations of elections
In democracies, elections in which voters elect their leaders and hold them accountable are the most important part of the democratic process. This...
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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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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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The Incumbency Advantage in Judicial Elections: Evidence from Partisan Trial Court Elections in Six U.S. States
Political scientists and legal scholars debate the value of judicial elections, including the degree to which elections effectively hold incumbent...
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The Personalization of Electoral Participation? The Relationship Between Trait Evaluations of Presidential Candidates and Turnout Decisions in American Presidential Elections 1980–2020
The personalization thesis claims that leaders’ influence over voters has increased. While research consistently shows that candidates influence...
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Making Sense of Heuristic Choice in Nonpartisan Elections: Evidence from South Korea
Heuristics are used to compensate for the limitations of human cognitive capacities. However, little is known about how voters decide what cue to use...
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Conviction of Multiparty Competition and Elections among Chinese College Students: A List Experiment Study
In confronting the dominant scholarly narrative, which asserts that the Chinese populace predominantly views democracy through the prism of free...
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Are feminine traits a liability in elections?
A possible reason for the lack of women in elected positions is that voters prefer candidates with masculine qualities. Studies have found that women...
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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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Teachers’ unions and school board elections: a reassessment
Drawing on an original data set of over 4000 teacher-union endorsements in local school board elections, I make three contributions to the literature...
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The General Elections: 2015, 2017, 2019
This chapter explains the backgrounds, the strategies, and the performance of the Conservatives’ three general election campaigns in 2015, 2017, and...
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Studying British Elections
The chapter provides an overview of significant developments in British elections since the 1950s. The key tools and methods of electoral analysis...
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UKIP support in local elections: which factors play a role in determining electoral fortunes?
This paper attempts to provide better understanding of which factors shaped UKIP electoral support in local elections using borough-level data from...
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Elections, lobbying and economic policies: an empirical investigation across Indian states
This paper utilizes a balanced panel data-set comprising of data on 29 Indian states and Union Territories for the period 2003-2017 for both...
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Identity Politics in US National Elections
Identity Politics assembles eight chapters by respected and emerging scholars in political science, psychology, and sociology to produce a sustained...
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Analysing Governance Arrangements: Freedom of Speech & Press and Elections
This case study chapter develops on the previous chapter’s analytical review of regional good governance and anti-corruption measures by focusing...
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Political information consumption and electoral turnout during COVID: the case of the 2020 municipal elections
The effects on political participation of the consumption of political information from traditional and digital media are widely addressed in the...
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Conclusion: The Prospects and 2023 Elections
In this concluding chapter, we will summarize and evaluate Kılıçdaroğlu’s political vision, shedding light on the key principles and ideals that have...
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In Party We Trust? Voter Support for Party-Backed Candidates in Primary Elections
When parties decide, do voters listen? We argue that the answer depends on voters’ trust in the institutions of American politics. Using both a...
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Teachers’ Unions and School Board Elections: A Reassessment
Drawing on an original data set of over 4000 teacher-union endorsements in local school board elections, I make three contributions to the literature...