However, the striking difference in prevalence between the genders may not be explained by the 2007 2008 post- election violence.
The success of recalls is partly explained by the nature of the election.
But these achievements consistently co-exist with deep personal flaws.Some blunders are explained by the ruthless nature of modern elections.
The timing of the shutting down of Levada is explained by the fact that the Russian Duma elections are two weeks off.
Mr. Romney's apparent strength in Florida this election is partly explained by the fact that he is essentially filling two roles from the 2008 campaign: his own of course, and Mr. Giuliani's.
The first one, which is also followed by no significant further increase over most of 2006, is probably explained by the fact that 2006 was a presidential election year.
The weights were calculated using the approximate variance explained by the polls that ended that number of days before the election in Erikson and Wlezien's analysis.
Michael Mulkay argues this criticism can be explained by the 'socio-political' changes that followed the 1979 election of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative Party (Mulkay, 1997).
The structural perspective suggests that some problems are probably best explained by the challenging conditions and the societal constraints under which contemporary elections are attempted.
Part of this season's heightened social media warfare can be explained by election timing and the redistricting battle that pushed this year's primary into late May, and the runoff into July, said Jeff Rotkoff, a Democratic political consultant.
