Showing papers in "Electoral Studies in 1992"

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether the British voter is less likely than the American to make a distinction between his current electoral choice and a more general partisan disposition and found that the difference might be due to a methodological difference between the British and American Election surveys: the British surveys, unlike the American, have placed the party identification question after the question on electoral choice, and this order may encourage the British respondents to bring their reports of their party identification into line with their actual votes.

TL;DR: In this article, Japanese national elections between 1958 and 1990 are analyzed and it has been shown that incumbency advantage has remained stable by and large in Japan by considering several possible factors for the Japan-US difference.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that left-right self-identification is associated with the two dimensions comprising the "ideological space": socio-economic (egalitarian) left right ad politico-cultural libertarianism-authoritarianism.

TL;DR: The experiences of these countries offer lessons for other developing democracies, with specific reference made to the Dominican Republic and the Philippines as mentioned in this paper, where a constitutional convention was elected in 1990 on a basis of nationwide representation to circumvent the existing Congress and implement reforms.

TL;DR: For example, the authors argues that the sheer volume of information television disseminates, the amount of time people attend to it, and the specific images of political phenomena television selects to present (or fails to present) can all have the opposite function, which may narcotize the electorate, promote cynicism and disaffection, inhibit interest and the acquisition of information, and ultimately suppress participation in a democratic political system.

TL;DR: The authors found that the Australian Democrats have only a weak social-structural base and this base has been declining, and the most consistent sociological factor associated with the Democrat vote is tertiary education, although postmaterialism and environmentalism are associated with Democrat support to some extent.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the theory of political apportionment to the United Kingdom and show that the outcome is defective by comparison with desirable and achievable standards, and that the defects lead to predictable biases of representation in favour of certain parts of the country.

TL;DR: The recent resurgence of multi-party systems in sub-Saharan Africa has created the conditions for a significant increase in the number of competitive elections involving contending political parties as discussed by the authors, and the analysis of seven competitive elections occurring early on in this process indicates considerable variation in the conduct and style of elections and the nature of competing parties.

TL;DR: The Danish 1915-1920 Lower House electoral system combined a traditional plurality system and a PR system with multi-stage compensatory seats in two provincial regions, and closed party list PR in the third, metropolitan, region as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of demographic factors on the electoral performance of the parties from one Bundestag election to the following one is assessed, and a forecast of these effects up to the year 2006 is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the intended behavior of self-identified PRI defectors is best explained by their judgements about the prospects for the political regime's institutions and by their view of candidate Carlos Salinas's personal qualities.

TL;DR: The Parliament elected in 1987 was the first since the 1960s to complete its full five-year span, but at the dissolution its record suggested stalemate as much as stability as mentioned in this paper, and limited steps had been taken towards the changes in institutional arrangements and public policy that have for some years been widely agreed to be necessary, but they were modest in relation to the scale of the problems of political disaggregation, executive weakness, and budgetary overload Italy now faces.

TL;DR: The 23 June elections for Israel's thirteenth Knesset ended in what Israelis called a'mahapach' -an upheaval-an upheaval as discussed by the authors, where the more dovish parties and the religious parties won only 59 seats.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the effects of partisanship, issue concerns and party leader images on voting behavior in the November 1988 Canadian federal election and concluded that partisanship remains weak and unstable, and it is very likely that such forces will remain ascendant in the foreseeable future.

TL;DR: The 1980 and 1984 United States elections marked a major turning point in the ideological orientation of public policy, and many argued that these elections reflected a policy mandate by the electorate who preferred Reagan's conservative policies as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether redistricting poses an electoral risk to the re-election of incumbent US representatives and concluded that redistricting does not pose a serious threat to incumbent candidates.