Challenge of Election Results in UK Law
-
Can women dynasty politicians disrupt social norms of political leadership? A proposed typology of normative change
Social norms that legitimise men as political leaders, and undervalue women’s leadership, are a tenacious barrier to women’s representation globally. This article explores the circumstances under w...... ... are strong, and in many cases the election of wives, widows, daughters and other relatives ... women dynasty politicians can, and do, challenge and extend social norms of leadership. This is ... due to a court challenge of election results or a criminal conviction, while one is the widow ... ...
-
Tactical Voting and Electoral Pacts in the 2019 UK General Election
The Brexit cleavage continued to define politics in the 2019 general election. This posed a challenge for parties and voters on each side of the debate: how to coordinate in favour of their side in...... ... This posed a challenge for parties and voters on each side of the debate: how to coordinate in ... candidates against incumbent Conservatives noticeably affected the results. Holding the structure of preferences in 2019 constant, Labour would ... ...
-
Stalin’s terror and the long-term political effects of mass repression
Repression has a long-term negative effect on political participation. Using millions of arrest records from archival documents, and polling station-level election results, we examine how exposure ...... ... , and polling station-level election results, we examine how exposure to Stalin-era ... repression for political behavior, and challenge the emergingview that exposure to violence ... ...
-
The 1976 Election and the American Political System
The elections, remembered as the first in which an incumbent President was defeated since 1932, show other characteristics inconsistent with usual interpretations. The Democratic Party's selection ...... ... Analysis of the results refutes many common conclusions. The popular vote was not as close as in ... Republicans still challenge strongly for the Presidency but consistently fail elsewhere. I. The ... ...
-
Dilemmas of Electoral Clientelism: Taiwan, 1993
For many years, studies of electoral clientelism regarded clients as the captive votes of patrons. In recent years, this conventional wisdom has come under challenge, as scholars have come to recog...... ... this conventional wisdom has come under challenge, as scholars have come to recognize the ... article uses the case of the 1993 Taiwan election to offer the fi rst ever systematic data on ... , combined with district electoral results, demonstrate considerable leakage in this ... ...
-
Pulling through elections by pulling the plug: Internet disruptions and electoral violence in Uganda
Does increasing Internet access and use challenge authoritarian elections? I argue that Internet access provides both opposition supporters and government authorities with new means to shape electo...... ... increasing Internet access and use challenge authoritarian elections? I argue that Internet ... presidential elections, evidencefrom election monitoring and survey data suggests that ... Overall, the results stress theimportant role that Internet access can ... ...
-
Europe, the End of the West and Global Power Shifts
Relative economic, political, and military power is undoubtedly shifting away from the West, most notably to Asia, but also to other world regions. Moreover, non‐state actors and cross‐border flows...... ... Even more fundamental is the emerging challenge to the notion of the ‘ West ’ as a group of ... The 2016 US election results raise serious doubts about the future US ... ...
-
Policy and Populism: Analysing Support for Die Linke
Defining ‘radical left’ political actors by their challenge to contemporary economic norms, this article draws the example of Die Linke in Germany and analyses explanations for this party’s support...... ... left’ political actors by their challenge to contemporary economic norms, this article ... Using German Longitudinal Election Survey data, this article carries out a large-N ... Results showed greater support for Die Linke from ... ...
-
Graeme Orr, Ritual and Rhythm in Electoral Systems: A Comparative Legal Account
... ... an appreciation of this aspect of election law. He sets up his approach in the first two ... contests that produce trusted and binding results, bringing legal closure to the political ... The challenge of voter disengagement facing our political ... ...
-
The Only (Other) Poll That Matters? Exit Polls and Election Night Forecasts in BBC General Election Results Broadcasts, 1955–2017
This article examines the role of results forecasts and exit polls in BBC general election night broadcasts from 1955 to 2017. Despite the substantial role played by academics in results programmes...... ... to use seat pro-jections to pose hypothetical questions about whether a party leader should resign or if a party will face a leadership challenge. While such questions are generally framed as being conditional on the accuracy of the exit poll, they can also place immediate pressure on a party ... ...
See all results