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Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis
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The article was published on 2016-08-04 and is currently open access. It has received 2235 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Trusted third party.read more
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Choosing the enemy Attack behaviour in a multiparty system
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined which political parties are the most likely targets of negative campaigning in a multiparty system and found that large parties, ideologically proximate parties, parties close to the median party position, and government parties are among the likely targets.
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Practice and payment: Determinants of candidate list position in European Parliament elections:
Sergiu Gherghina,Mihail Chiru +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the case of Romania in the European elections of June 2009, relying on an original data set including the sociodemographics, career history and wealth of all 215 candidates from the Romanian parties' parliamentary lists.
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Nested Games: The Cohesion of French Electoral Coalitions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a theory of nested games which accounts for the cohesion of coalitions, where the parties in a coalition are considered to be playing a game with variable payoffs.
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Party Systems and Decentralization in Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a theory that can begin to explain the divergent outcomes in the many forms of decentralization initiated across Africa, and provide a first test of the theory through a comparative analysis of over a dozen countries, focusing on process tracing for Ethiopia, Botswana, Ghana, and Benin.
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The End of "Silent Elections". The Birth of Electoral Competition, 1832-1915
TL;DR: In this paper, the competitive strategies of political parties aimed at maximizing electoral support in early years of democratic elections were explored empirically, by spreading through geographical geographical regions of the country.