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Election timing
The author proposes & tests an informational theory of endogenous election timing that explains when leaders call for elections & the consequences of their decisions. He argues that, all else being equal, leaders announce elections when they anticipate a decline in their future performance.
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Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000
Twice in the winter of 1999-2000, citizens of the Russian Federation flocked to their neighborhood voting stations and scratched their ballots in an atmosphere of uncertainty, rancor, and fear. This book is a tale of these two elections -one for the 450-seat Duma, the other for President. Despite financial crisis, a national security emergency in Chechnya, and cabinet instability, Russian voters unexpectedly supported the status quo. The elected lawmakers prepared to cooperate with the executive branch, a gift that had eluded President Boris Yeltsin since he imposed a post-Soviet constitution by referendum in 1993. When Yeltsin retired six months in advance of schedule, the presidential mantle went to Vladimir Putin -a career KGB officer who fused new and old ways of doing politics. Putin was easily elected President in his own right. This book demonstrates key trends in an extinct superpower, a troubled country in whose stability, modernization, and openness to the international community the West still has a huge stake.
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Comparative electoral management : performance, networks, and instruments
\"This book offers the first comparative monograph on the management of elections. The book defines electoral management as a new, inter-disciplinary area and advances a realist sociological approach to study it. A series of new, original frameworks are introduced, including the PROSeS framework which can be used by academics and practitioners around the world to evaluate electoral management quality. A networked governance approach is also introduced to understand the full range of collaborative actors involved in delivering elections, including civil society and the international community. Finally, the book evaluates some of the policy instruments used to improve the integrity of elections, including voter registration reform, training and the funding of elections. Extensive mixed methods are used throughout including thematic analysis of interviews, ethnography, comparative historical analysis; and, cross-national and national surveys of electoral officials. This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners interested and involved in electoral integrity and elections, and more broadly to comparative politics, public administration, international relations and democracy studies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ballot Battles
Perhaps the truest test of a nation's ability govern itself democratically is its ability to count ballots fairly and accurately in competitive, high-stakes elections. Yet from the founding on, America's adherence to this ideal has been distinctly uneven. Edward Foley's Ballot Battles is a sweeping synthesis of the subject, tracing how election controversies evolved over time, from the 1780s to the present.
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Voting Online
In an attempt to reverse declining rates of voter participation,
governments around the world are turning to electronic voting to
improve the efficiency of vote counts, and increase the
accessibility and equity of the voting process for electors who may
face additional barriers. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified
this trend.
Voting Online focuses on Canada, where the technology
has been widely embraced by municipal governments with one of the
highest rates of use in the world. In the age of cyber elections,
Canada is the only country where governments offer fully remote
electronic elections and where traditional paper voting is
eliminated for entire electorates. Municipalities are the
laboratories of electoral modernization when it comes to digital
voting reform. We know conspicuously little about the effects of
these changes, particularly the elimination of paper ballots.
Relying on surveys of voters, non-voters, and candidates in
twenty Ontario cities, and a survey of administrators across the
province of Ontario, Voting Online provides a holistic
view of electronic elections unavailable anywhere else.
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Money for votes : the causes and consequences of electoral clientelism in Africa
\"Politicians distribute money to voters during campaigns in many low-income democracies. Many observers call this practice \"vote buying.\" Money for votes develops an alternative theory of electoral clientelism that emphasizes the role of monetary handouts in conveying information to voters, helping politicians enhance the credibility of their promises to deliver development resources and particularistic benefits to their constituents. Supported by interviews, experiments, and surveys in Kenya, and additional evidence from qualitative and survey data from elsewhere in Africa, the study tests the implications of this argument, and traces the consequences of electoral clientelism for voter behavior, ethnic politics, public goods provision, and democratic accountability.\"--1st preliminary page.
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Three key takeaways from Tuesday's elections
Democrats won key statewide and local elections across the country on Nov. 4, in the first electoral test since Donald Trump's victory in 2024. The Post's JM Rieger breaks it down.
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