Most literature on special elections has focused first-past-the-post contests and the performance of governments. Turnout, candidates, how electoral system impacts result have received less attention. This contribution fills these voids by exploring in Ireland, conducted under alternative vote system. Taking a multifaceted approach, it investigates correlates turnout, impact candidates decisive...

We introduce a new collection of data that consolidates information on European Parliament elections into one comprehensive source. It provides formal electoral rules as well national-level and district-level election results for parties individual politicians (including full candidate lists). The use existing key variables makes it easy to link the across different units observation (country, ...

The study is devoted to the analysis of main normative legal acts, regulating holding elections within European Union, linked evolution Ukrainian Constitutionalism and integration law into space. It has been proved, that correct choice an electoral system creates a suitable environment for citizens exercise one fundamental democratic rights, namely elect their authorized representative who in t...

election is one of the most important fields in which democracy can be made practicable. it is a criterion of the status and the level of people participation in the modern political systems. consequently, people can take part in the decision making, enforcement and surveillance of the territory administrative processes. in order to select the members of parliament, referring to the people vote...

This article explores the internet’s role in the Finnish 2004 European election. The first aim is to explore how different actors employed the web during the campaign. The second aim is to analyze the impact of the actors’ web strategies on voters. Two circumstances make Finland interesting. First, the basic prerequisite for web campaigning is fulfilled since the northern countries, including F...

Despite the dramatic voter turnout increase in 2019, participation level European Parliament elections is still considerably lower than national elections. How can we explain this persistent ‘Euro gap’? This article analyses motivations of citizens who participate but not electoral contests, so-called ‘EU-only abstainers’. The empirical analysis based on EES 2019 study reveals that EU-only abst...

Estonia has one of the most established e-voting systems in the world. Internet voting remote e-voting using the voter’s own equipment was piloted in 2005 [12] (with the first real elections using e-voting being conducted the same year) and has been in use ever since. So far, the Estonian internet voting system has been used for the whole country in three sets of local elections, two European P...