Electoral Petition in UK Law
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Economic development and mass political participation in contemporary China: determinants of provincial petition (Xinfang) activism 1994–2002
Rapid economic development has increased mass political participation in market reform China. Many electoral authoritarian regimes with a good record of economic development have experienced the gr...... ... Many electoral authoritarian regimes with a good record of economic development have experienced the growing participation of elite/middle-class citizens. Under ... ...
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Book Review: Comparative: Elites and Identities in Post-Soviet Space
... ... of Cambridge) Party Strategies in Western Europe: Party Com- petition and Electoral Outcomes by Gemma Loomes. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011 ... ...
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Book Review: Comparative: Party Strategies in Western Europe: Party Competition and Electoral Outcomes
... ... Vsevolod Samokhvalov (University of Cambridge) Party Strategies in Western Europe: Party Com- petition and Electoral Outcomes by Gemma Loomes. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011. 272pp., £80.00, ISBN 9780415601603 Gemma Loomes’ book analyses the impact of ... ...
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Information and political institutions
... ... question by investigating ho w par tisan competition in the electoral arena might induce politicians to implement civil service reforms, rather ... a new lens with which to ev aluate the impact of electoral com- petition and electoral institutions on voter welfare, and they suggest that ... ...
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Constituency Control of Legislators: Lessons from Nigeria
... ... responsibilities; certain people have to be chosen through the electoral process to represent a certain number (constituency) of people in the ... the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission a petition in that behalf signed by more than one-half of the persons registered to ... ...
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Book Review: Comparative: Party Patronage and Party Government in European Democracies
... ... chapters, the editors distinguish between ‘patronage as an electoral" resource’ (clientelism) and ‘patronage as an organisa- tional resource\xE2" ... of Cambridge) Party Strategies in Western Europe: Party Com- petition and Electoral Outcomes by Gemma Loomes. Abingdon: Routledge, 2011 ... ...
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Political party strength and electoral violence
Existing research on the causes of electoral violence has focused on structural determinants and election-specific characteristics but has paid less attention to the role of political agents that c...... ... Less attention has been paid to the institutional underpinnings of electoral com- petition. Whereas studies have highlighted electoral rules (Fjelde & Ho ¨ glund, 2016) or strength of constraining institutions (Hafner-Burton, Hyde & ... ...
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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...... ... ’ from men; it requires women’s overlapping – political, electoral", familial – com-munities to endorse their newly articulated version of \xE2\x80" ... her husband, Jimson, was removed from office through an electoral petition. There was some specula-tion that Tanangada had stood in the by-election ... ...
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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...... ... ’ from men; it requires women’s overlapping – political, electoral", familial – com-munities to endorse their newly articulated version of \xE2\x80" ... her husband, Jimson, was removed from office through an electoral petition. There was some specula-tion that Tanangada had stood in the by-election ... ...
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Elections in Northern Nigeria
... ... While the electoral process does so by being patently free and fair, the traditional process ... in an unsuccessful candidate bringing a successful electoral petition before the High Court against the officer responsible for the conduct of ... ...
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