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Parliamentary Elections (parliamentary + elections)

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A Strange Affair: The 2002 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in France

GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION, Issue 3 2002
Alistair Cole
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Egypt's 2000 Parliamentary Elections

MIDDLE EAST POLICY, Issue 2 2001
Mona Makram-Ebeid
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Voters, Patrons and Parties: Parliamentary Elections in Ireland, c.1692,1727

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY, Issue 2005
D. W. HAYTON
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The Presidential and Parliamentary Elections of the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela: Change and Continuity (1998,2000)

BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 2 2002
José E. Molina V
The paper examines to what extent electoral behaviour in Venezuela, as it appeared in the elections of 1998 and 2000, is different from that observed between 1958 and 1988. The paper reaches the conclusion that given the decline in party identification (dealignment), the short-term variables specific to each election, in particular the attitude towards government performance and personalities, have grown in weight vis-à-vis the structural factors (party identification, institutions, long-standing political predispositions). However, the latter were still relevant and important in the 1998 and 2000 elections and it is very likely they will carry on as such for the future. It is also concluded that, even though the party system has become unstable due to the decline in identification with the traditional government parties, new stabilising factors seem to have appeared and should be taken into account. These are ideology and negative party identification. [source]

Gender-based voting in the parliamentary elections of 2007 in Finland

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, Issue 5 2010
ANNE MARIA HOLLI
In contrast to many other countries, the Finnish open-list proportional representation (PR) system with its mandatory preferential voting provides an opportunity to study gender-based voting empirically. Using the 2007 Finnish national election study, the article presents an analysis of the grounds for same-gender voting, including motivations related to descriptive and substantive dimensions of representation. None of the motivations is able to account men's higher propensity to vote for a candidate of their own gender. The motivations linked to securing the descriptive and substantive representation of one's own gender in politics play a more decisive part on women's vote choice of same-gender candidates. Voting for a same-gender candidate is connected to younger age among both women and men, while the propensity to vote for female candidates increases with support for the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Swedish People's Party. Finally, gender, party choice, and descriptive and substantive motivations seem to be related to gender-based voting for both parliamentary and presidential elections. [source]

The effect of socioeconomic factors on voter turnout in Finland: A register-based study of 2.9 million voters

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, Issue 5 2005
PEKKA MARTIKAINEN
The analyses are based on individual-level register data from electoral wards from the parliamentary elections of 1999 linked to population registration data on personal characteristics covering the whole 25 to 69 year-old Finnish electorate. The results show that income and housing tenure are more important determinants of turnout among older voters than among younger voters, whereas education has a dominant role in determining young people's turnout. Moreover, class has maintained its discriminatory power in determining turnout in all age groups even though working-class under-representation in participation can be partly attributable to previously obtained educational attainment. Furthermore, the lower turnout of younger voters remains unexplained even if socioeconomic factors are held constant. Lower turnout among lower social classes and among the young will affect the legitimacy of the prevalent model of party democracy. [source]

Individual characteristics, institutional incentives and electoral abstention in Western Europe

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, Issue 5 2002
Eva Anduiza Perea
This article examines the interaction between individual characteristics and institutional incentives in non,voting, with a special focus on the interaction between these two types of explanatory variables. The analysis of survey and contextual data for parliamentary elections in 15 Western European countries shows that the effect of individual resources and motivations on abstention is not constant across different countries. Conversely, the effect of institutional incentives (compulsory voting, voting facilities, electoral thresholds of representation and preference expression) on non,voting depends on the elector's level of resources and motivations. One of the four institutional incentives considered has even opposite effects for citizens with different individual characteristics. The analysis also shows that when analysing interactions it is fundamental to distinguish between magnitudes and consequences of the effects of explanatory variables. This has important implications for the interpretation of the results of logistic regression analysis. [source]

Parliamentary Election Turnout in Europe since 1990

POLITICAL STUDIES, Issue 5 2002
Alan Siaroff
This article examines the cross-national variations in turnout for parliamentary elections in Europe since 1990 , a continent with a vast range in turnout levels and some clear subregional patterns, especially that of low turnout in East-Central Europe. A full range of socio-economic, mobilizational, party system, institutional, and contextual factors are examined for bivariate relationships with turnout. A multivariate model then indicates that cross-national turnout is higher where there is strictly enforced compulsory voting, in polarized two-party systems and countries with a high level of party membership, and where there are no relevant elected presidents or strong regional governments. Variances on these and other key factors are what accounts for the subregional pattern of East-Central Europe and the highest turnout case of Malta; however, Switzerland is confirmed to be a significant national dummy variable. [source]