The paper analyzes the legislation of Provisional Government Russia 1917 which ensured democratization Zemstvo electoral system by introducing general, equal, direct elections secret ballot. According to transitional 1917, county and provincial councillors were held according proportional system. As a result elections, zemstvos Ukrainized democratized involving peasants’ representatives. Howeve...

This paper challenges the dominant paradigm of turnout studies by proposing that turnout variations occur because elections differ, not because countries differ; and certainly not because people differ. Indeed, we take the radical position that what matters if we want to understand overtime and cross-national turnout variations is differences in the ways in which citizens are affected by the el...

The decisions voters make-and whether those decisions are rational-have profound implications on the functionality of a democratic society. In this study, we delineated two criteria in evaluating voter rationality and weigh evidence of voter rationality versus irrationality. Furthermore, we compared models in two different elections in Taiwan to explore the reasons behind the irrational choices...

This paper will examine the influence of radio political campaign messages on the electorates’ voting behavior in Kano – Nigeria, with a focus on the 2015 general elections. It seeks to ascertain the extent that the electorates in Kano – Nigeria were exposed to radio political campaign messages, as well as the extent to which such messages influenced their voting decisions. Equally, the study c...

I leveragenovel experimental designs and2, 160monthsofMembers ofParliaments’ (MPs’)Constituency Development Fund spending to test whether fair elections promote democratic responsiveness. I ��nd thatMPs elected in constituencies thatwere randomly assigned to high levels of electionmonitoring during Ghana’s 2012 polls spend 19 percentage points more of their CDFs, on average, compared to those w...

We investigate whether the plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in large elections with multiple alternatives, in which voters have common interests. Voters’ preferences depend on an unknown state of nature, and they receive imprecise private signals about the state of nature prior to the election. Similar to two-alternative elections (e.g., Myerson (1998)), there always exists an ...

We visualize aggregate outputs of popular multiwinner voting rules—SNTV, STV, Bloc, k-Borda, Monroe, Chamberlin– Courant, and PAV—for elections generated according to the two-dimensional Euclidean model. We consider three applications of multiwinner voting, namely, parliamentary elections, portfolio/movie selection, and shortlisting, and use our results to understand which of our rules seem to ...