Elections and local government performance in Brazil

Campaign Spending in the Local Government Elections of 1999

For the first time in Irish electoral history, the 1999 local elections required candidates to publicly declare their campaign expenditures. Drawing on these data, we explore patterns in campaign spending and assess their impact, both on candidate success and on turnout. First, examining the elections contested by 1,838 candidates from 180 local constituencies and 34 councils, we identify both ...

Decentralization and Local Government Performance

This paper is taken from a study financed by a grant from the World Bank Research Committee. The full report should be available from mid-1998.

Testing the eSTV program for the Scottish Local Government Elections

1 Management Summary This report deals with the testing of eSTV software from ERS, Electoral Reform Services. The purpose of the test is to determine the conformance of eSTV to the WIG-rule [1]. In order to determine conformance we have created a new implementation of the rule in the functional programming language Clean [4]. Since this language uses a different programming paradigm and the imp...

A Study of Factors that Influenced Voters’ Behaviour: A Case of Billiri Local Government (2019 General Elections)

Candidates Prepare for Upcoming Student Government Elections

Two freshmen an Honor Council member and a candidate for Student Government secretary -are among 28 students who will face judicial action as a result of having alcohol confiscated from their rooms during Spring Break. Reports were filed by residence life and housing staff members against 41 students found in possession of alcohol during health and safety inspections. Janna Laing, who was elect...