Search Results - subject:"Candidate Entry"

Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection

Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023

We present the first comprehensive evidence on the role of cognitive ability and personality traits in the selection of electoral candidates and election of politicians. Using unique data that combine population registers and election statistics from local government elections in Finland with...

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Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection

Jokela, Markus; Meriläinen, Jaakko; Tukiainen, Janne; … - 2023 - February 2023 (first version July 2022, second version August 2022)

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Hyper-Plurality of Candidates, Effectiveness of Democratic Representation and Regulation of Candidate Entry in India

Kaushik, Bhattacharya; Subrata K, Mitra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

from different expert groups. The major policy tool to control candidate entry in India had, however, been electoral … candidate entry. Results suggest that increase in deposit had a substantial short-term negative impact on candidate entry. The … level of signature requirement, a relatively unused policy tool for controlling candidate entry, is found to be low in India …

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More can be Less: Hyper Plurality of Candidates, the Rationality of Electoral Choice and Need for Electoral Reform in India

Bhattacharya, Kaushik; Mitra, Subrata - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

problem has evoked, the paper reviews the process of candidate entry in select developed countries. The review reveals the … results suggest that an increase in deposit had a significant negative impact on candidate entry in India. However, for an …

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Strategic Voting under Plurality and Runoff Rules

Niou, Emerson M. S. - In: Journal of Theoretical Politics 13 (2001) 2, pp. 209-227

Choosing a method of electing a president is often a contentious constitutional issue for newly emerging democracies. The debate focuses largely on two alternative electoral procedures: plurality rule and plurality rule with a runoff. Duverger (1954) argues that plurality rule has a...

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