Elections and Voters by Cees van der Eijk (University of Nottingham) and Mark N. Franklin (European University Institute Florence‚ Nuffield College Oxford‚ and Trinity College Connecticut) Draft of December 2008 189 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface [1‚147 words] iii Chapter 1: Why elections? [9‚663 words] 1 Chapter 2: Studying elections‚ parties and voters [15‚134 words] 23 Chapter 3: Electoral institutions [15‚831 words] 59 Chapter 4: Voters and parties [15‚972
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STUDENT ELECTIONS ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE INTRODUCTION “A 10% failure rate in Lebanese universities! What happened?” wrote the famous editor and write Khalil Hanna in one of the newspapers. He continued his piece talking about the elections in the universities. One can’t but ask those questions: Should university heads allow such event on campus? Are students benefiting from their university’s educational experience‚ or are they investing their time in preparations for elections‚ thus
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Well‚ I suppose it’s better to talk about the reason we felt that we wanted to put an MRP II system in to start with. It started about 4 years ago I suppose we first started grappling with the problem of how to become more efficient and more effective in the future. I suppose that there were two driving forces. The first one was the need to contain costs and to make better use of the resources that we had. There was a shortfall in capacity. We have enough people‚ we have enough management resources
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Political Parties and Unfair Elections The Civil War and the Vietnam era of the 1960s forever changed the political party systems of our country. Those two time periods and the issues involved led to America embracing a two-party system‚ which is intact to this day. Due to the two-party system‚ it is extremely difficult for a candidate to be elected if he is not a member of either the Democratic or Republican party. This is not a situation that our founders would have encouraged‚ as they "disliked
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campaign‚ I discovered that the election process is not a cut and dry one. The Republican Party was clearly honest in their approach of gerrymandering and bragging as they gerrymandered congressional districts in blue states. They wanted to control how state legislative and congressional district boundaries would be drawn‚ so they set about to control the redistricting process. Therefore‚ even thou a majority of Americans voted for Democrats in the Presidential election… the Republicans ended up controlling
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Impact of Television on Presidential Elections The Impact of Television on Presidential Elections: The aim of this paper is to look at the relationship between the mass media‚ specifically television‚ and presidential elections. This paper will focus on the function of television in presidential elections through three main areas: exit polls‚ presidential debates‚ and spots. The focus is on television for three reasons. First‚ television reaches more voters than any other medium. Second
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customers must want to know more. INTRODUCTION We were assigned a job by a leading PARTY OF UK to design an election campaign strategy aimed at communicating to 18-23 years olds. We have now completed the job and we would like to give a presentation on our strategy. The strategy aims to build a desire and motivation among the young voters to vote for the party. While designing the election campaign strategy‚ we have implemented all the marketing concepts because as proved by Harrop (1990) political
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immediately preceding the election. No literacy‚ property‚ or other substantive requirement shall be imposed on the exercise of suffrage. III. Elections An election is a decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold formal office. This is the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy fills offices in the executive and legislative branches of government‚ and could either be national or local level. Regular elections are those held regularly
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and can determine the outcome of presidential elections. The media has been accused of focusing on subjects such as the politician’s personal life and their characteristics rather than looking at the political issues of the election. The voter’s views can also be altered by political advertisements that do not focus on issues. This can cause the voters to believe that certain issues are important when in reality they are trivial concerns. Elections often become popularity contests because of the
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Dr. Light English 102 12 October 2013 Revision of Presidential Election Process Being elected president is one of the greatest achievements of any president’s life. It is a lengthy process that supposedly calls on the citizens of America to cast their opinions through so called “votes”. However‚ the current system of the presidential election process allocates a certain number of electoral votes that is equal to the sum of U. S. Representatives and Senators for that state. Although not a state
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