Browsing by Subject "Elections"
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Citizens in Fear: Political Participation and Voting Behavior in the Midst of Violence
(2014)How does violence affect political participation and voting behavior? Why does a violent context push some to be politically active, while others decide to stay at home? Our current understanding of political behavior is ... -
Elections, Information, and Political Survival in Autocracies
(2012)Chapter 1: Forcing Consent: Information and Power in Non-Democratic Elections. Why do governments hold elections that lack credibility? What explains variation in repression levels across non-democratic elections? While ... -
The Danger of Party Government
(2017)American voters understand that elections have consequences, but they have become so disillusioned by their political system that approximately 40 percent have self-selected out of the two-party circus, choosing instead ... -
The Role of Civil Religion in Choosing a President
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Urban-Rural Bias and the Political Geography of Distributive Conflicts
(2012)Pro-urban bias in policy is often seen as a common phenomenon in the developing world. Empirical reality though is much more varied. Many governments actively support agricultural producers and rural citizens, even at early ... -
Whose Ballots Are Rejected? Demographic Dynamics of Provisional Ballots in North Carolina from 2010-2020
(2021-01)Provisional ballots were designed to be democracy’s final line of defense against disenfranchisement. Through provisional voting, every person has the right to fill out a ballot. However, many of these ballots are rejected. ...
