Challenge of Election Results in UK Law
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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 ......
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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 ......
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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 ......
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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 ... Republicans still challenge strongly for the Presidency but consistently fail elsewhere. I. The ......
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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 ......... documents, and polling station-level election results, we examine how exposure to Stalin-era ... repression for political behavior, and challenge the emerging view that exposure to violence ......
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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 ......
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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 ......
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Incumbent-Quality Advantage and Counterfactual Electoral Stagnation in the US Senate
This article examines the extent to which electoral selection based on candidate quality alone can account for the pattern of re-election rates in the US Senate. In the absence of officeholder bene......... alone can account for the pattern of re-election rates in the US Senate. In the absence of ...Therefore, the results can provide an indirect robustness check. The ... challengers may also be reluctant to challenge high-quality incumbents if they intrinsically ......
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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 ......
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MPs' Expenditure and General Election Campaigns: Do Incumbents Benefit from Contacting their Constituents?
Most studies of the impact of local campaign expenditure on British election results have found that expenditure by incumbents has less of an effect on the outcome than does that by challengers. So......... of the impact of local campaign expenditure on British election results have found that expenditure by incumbents has less of an effect on the ... that the Conservative party began spending large sums in 2007 to challenge incumbent Labour MPs in such constituencies. 16 Money does matter in some ......
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