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The Impact of Election Administration on the Legitimacy of Emerging Democracies: A New Comparative Politics Research Agenda
Jørgen Elklit,Andrew Reynolds +1 more
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In this article, a new sub-field of research in the field of democratisation and institutional design, namely the relationship between the institutionalisation of electoral politics, including the administration of elections, and the development of political legitimacy and democratic consolidation in new democracies, is proposed.Abstract:
This article seeks to push the development of a new sub-field of research in the field of democratisation and institutional design, namely the relationship between the institutionalisation of electoral politics - including the administration of elections - and the development of political legitimacy and democratic consolidation in new democracies. Focus is on the conduct of elections and research questions are formulated to enable us to gauge the effectiveness and contribution of election related institutional choices and the impact of various stages of the implementation process. An analysis of eight African countries reveals that individual experiences related to the conduct of elections appears to have a direct bearing on how the sense of political efficacy develops in individuals, and that this is an important factor behind the development of legitimacy and progression towards democratic consolidation.read more
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Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, some concepts and how they apply to Russia are discussed and some symptoms of the failure of democracy in the country and the structural and institutional problems of the Russian regime.
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Why Electoral Integrity Matters
TL;DR: Norris et al. as discussed by the authors presented the first in a planned trilogy by Pippa Norris on challenges of electoral integrity to be published by Cambridge University Press, focusing on the fact that too often elections around the globe are deeply flawed or even fail.
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Perceptions of Electoral Fairness and Voter Turnout
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that perceptions of electoral integrity are positively associated with propensity to vote, and that electoral integrity perceptions are positively related to voter turnout, based on aggregate-level data from 31 countries combined with survey results from Module 1 of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems survey project.
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Electoral institutions and popular confidence in electoral processes: A cross-national analysis
TL;DR: The authors explored the factors that shape perceptions of electoral conduct in a cross-national context, testing the hypothesis that institutional structures that promote a "level playing field" at each stage of the electoral process will enhance the extent to which voters perceive their elections to be fair.
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Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities? Spillover Effects of Observers in a Randomized Field Experiment in Ghana
Nahomi Ichino,Matthias Schündeln +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of domestic observers deployed to reduce irregularities in voter registration in a new democracy, and in particular, the response of political parties' agents to these observers was studied.
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Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the third wave of global democratization has come to an end, leaving a growing gap between the electoral form and the liberal substance of democracy.
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Democracy with Adjectives: Conceptual Innovation in Comparative Research
David Collier,Steven Levitsky +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored the strengths and weaknesses of alternative strategies of conceptual innovation that have emerged: descending and climbing Sartori's ladder of generality, generating diminished" subtypes of democracy, precising the definition of democracy by adding defining attributes, and shifting the overarching concept with which democracy is associated.
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Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies during the 1980s
Robert W. Jackman,Ross A. Miller +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two contending accounts of cross-national variation in voter turnout rates are presented: one emphasizes the role of institutions and electoral attributes, whereas the other stresses cultural and historical factors.
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Does proportional representation foster voter turnout
André Blais,R. K. Carty +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the record of western democracies to measure the impact of differing electoral formulae on the rate of voter turnout and found that higher turnout rates in PR systems that cannot be explained by a wide variety of control variables or traditional arguments about PR.