Election Watch: Senegal
Blog: International Republican Institute
Senegal is set to hold elections on March 24, 2024. Here's what you need to know.
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Blog: International Republican Institute
Senegal is set to hold elections on March 24, 2024. Here's what you need to know.
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"The most authoritative and accessible introduction available on the topic. By pairing original research with fundamental concepts of representation and responsibility, Carson and Jacobson help students develop the tools to evaluate representative government and their own role in the electoral process"--
In: European political science review: EPSR, S. 1-18
ISSN: 1755-7747
Abstract
If elections are to perform their legitimizing role, they should not only be objectively free, fair and non-fraudulent, but should also be perceived by the public as such. This paper investigates who perceives elections to be fair and why by contrasting two main logics: one based on the idea that perceptions of election integrity arise from external cues voters get from their environment and a second logic claiming that perceptions are internally created based on attitudes and beliefs. We use original survey data collected in ten countries around the European Elections 2019. We find that perceptions of election fairness are unrelated to country levels of integrity but mainly relate to voters' status as winners/losers of the elections, attachment to the institutions they elect and populist attitudes. We also find beliefs on fake news influence to weakly mediate the relation between populist attitudes and perceptions of election fairness.
Blog: Centre for International Policy Studies
The latest Taiwanese elections constitute a fine example of democratic success that must be celebrated at a time when liberal democracies are threatened more than ever from within by populist movements and from without by authoritarian regimes. The vigor of …
In: The review of international organizations
ISSN: 1559-744X
In: Africa research bulletin. Political, social and cultural series, Band 61, Heft 1
ISSN: 1467-825X
In: West European politics, S. 1-16
ISSN: 1743-9655
Blog: Australian Institute of International Affairs
Prabowo Subianto has won Indonesia's presidential election. Who is he, what will Joko Widodo's influence be, and what does it mean for Indonesian democracy?
In: South European society & politics, S. 1-27
ISSN: 1743-9612
In: American journal of political science
ISSN: 1540-5907
AbstractFrom the 1980s to the mid‐2010s, nearly three‐quarters of members newly elected to the US House of Representatives had previous elected experience; however, only half of the freshmen elected from 2016 to 2020 held prior office. In this article, we investigate emergence‐ and success‐driven explanations for the declining proportion of experienced officeholders entering Congress. In our analyses, we find that the advantages traditionally afforded to experienced candidates are waning. First, we show that inexperienced candidates' emergence patterns have changed; amateurs are increasingly apt to emerge in the same kinds of contests as their experienced counterparts. We then show that experienced candidates have lost their fundraising edge and that—for certain kinds of candidates—the value of elected experience itself has declined. Lastly, we identify other candidate characteristics as strong predictors for success in modern elections. We demonstrate that these electorally advantageous identities overwhelmingly belong to candidates who lack elected experience.
In: MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2024-1
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In: Africa research bulletin. Political, social and cultural series, Band 61, Heft 1
ISSN: 1467-825X
In: Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics
1. Historical Background of Nigeria's Fourth Republic -- 2. The Nigerian Presidential System.-3. Politics and Presidential Elections -- 4. Political Behaviour and Voting Patterns -- 5. The Electoral Commission, the Conduct of Elections and Party Financing -- 6. Party Politics -- 7. Presidential Powers -- 8. Presidents and Policymaking -- 9. Nigerian Presidential Elections in Comparative Perspective -- 10. The Future of Nigeria's Democracy.
In: African governance
The Nexus Between Digital Technologies, Elections and Campaigns / Duncan Omanga, Admire Mare and Pamela Mainye -- Digital Technologies and Electoral Campaigns -- Twitter, Elections and Gendered Disinformation Campaigns in Zimbabwe / Admire Mare -- Digital Media Politics in Kenya: Of Nerds, Missionaries and Mercenaries / Duncan Omanga and Pamela Mainye -- Social Media, Political Transition and Conflict in Ethiopia / Asnake Kefale -- Political Parties and Social Media: Between Screenshots, Memes and Hashtags During Municipal Elections in Mozambique / De̹rcio Tsandzana -- "To Vote or not to Vote": Facebook as Platform for Salafi Discourses on Voting in Uganda / Abdulhakim A. Nsobya -- Undermining Democracy Through Social Media: The Impact of Disinformation and Government Propaganda in the 2017 Elections in Kenya / Jacinta Mwende Maweu -- Social Media, Internet Shutdowns and Elections In Uganda: The Case of 2016 and 2021 Electoral Campaigns / Emilly Comfort Maractho -- Social Media Use and its Impact on Malawi 2020 Presidential Election / Anthony M. Gunde and Jimmy Kainja -- Observation Reports and Newsification of Elections -- "Assessing the 'Credibility' of the Kenya's 2017 General Elections: A Critical Reading of Selected International Observers Missions 'Digital Reports' / John Mwangi Githigaro -- The "Lack of Listening" During South African Election News Coverage: Ramifications for Peace and Democracy / Bernadine Jones -- Digital Technologies, Protests and Social Change -- #EndSARS Organizing: Lessons and Opportunities for Nigeria's Future Governance / Toyin Ajao -- A Revolution from the Centre: Class, Digital Cultures, and the 2018-2022 Sudan Uprising / Mohamed Bakhit -- Digital Cultures, Voice and (New) Forms of Civic Participation in Ghana / Charles Prempeh -- Assessing Twitter's Revolutionary Potential in an Authoritarian Regime: The Case of the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter / Danford Zirugo and Admire Mare.
Blog: USAPP
The report from Special Counsel Robert K. Hur into the treatment of classified material by President Joe Biden was released in February, leading to media cycles dominated by coverage of, and comment on, Hur's findings. Below Peter Finn, highlights some notable aspects of the report and reflects on how it may feed into the 2024 … Continued