We ask whether the birthplaces of Italian members of Parliament are favoured in the allocation of central government transfers. Using a panel of municipalities for the years between 1994 and 2006, we find that municipal governments of legislators' birth towns receive larger transfers per capita. Exploiting the fact that some birth towns are outside of the district of election, we conclude that ...

complicated situation in Ukraine’s modern politics and mass media requires an examination of the historical background, in particular the situation of Ukrainian mass media on the eve of the elections to the parliament of Ukraine on 28 October 2012. he main objective of the study is to analyze the activities and development tendencies of Ukrainian mass media on the eve of parliamentary elections...

This paper reports the preliminary results of a study which investigated the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by political parties and individual candidates as part of their campaign for election to the Scottish Parliament. Two methodologies were used in gathering data. Firstly, a weekly survey of political Web sites was conducted in the four weeks preceding the Scottish...

In the 2005 Portuguese Parliament General Elections there were non-valid experiments of e-voting at five voting places and also through the Internet. Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto audited such experiments. Relevant security, transparency, usability and accessibility evaluation criteria and sub-criteria were defined, and an auditing procedure based on AHP was established. This...

We present a new model that describes the process of electing a group of representatives (e.g., a parliament) for a group of voters. In this model, called the voting committee model, the elected group of representatives runs a number of ballots to make final decisions regarding various issues. The satisfaction of voters comes from the final decisions made by the elected committee. Our results s...

reformism discourse was organized according to a set of non- homogeneous theories and because it was a combination of traditional teachings of islam and teachings of modern liberalism simultaneously, it didn’t have any theoretical integrity. immediate integration of reformers during the election was dues to a historical necessity of opposition against conservatisms, candidate who considered him...

According to Acton: “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. We study the implications of Acton’s dictum in models where citizens vote (for three parties) and governments then form in a series of elections. In each election, parties have Þxed tastes for graft, which affect negotiations to form a government if parliament hangs; but incumbency changes tastes across elections. We a...

In May, 1854, 37 men were sworn in for the first sitting of New Zealand’s House Representatives. For next 79 years, those deep voices only ones thought to be capable public debate chamber. The political sphere, context which “maiden speeches” are given, was initially reserved men, and language English. With election Māori members Parliament 1868, te reo came spoken, but only, course, by men. Ab...

The results of the presidential and parliamentary elections in France 2022, which took place specific conditions caused by increase energy socio-economic problems country against background military operations Ukraine, are analyzed. Despite re-election President E. Macron for a second term, loss an absolute pro-government majority National Assembly (the lower house French Parliament) following ...

The electoral cycle has become an established feature of voting behaviour, both in Britain and in other European countries. After an initial `honeymoon' between the new Government and the electorate, disillusion often sets in and Government popularityÐwhether measured by opinion polls, by-elections or mid-term elections such as the European and local electionsÐ tends to decline. In most cases, ...