Sentence examples for study of electoral from inspiring English sources

Particular attention is paid to work on contextual effects using British election studies, the work of Huckfeldt and Sprague on one US locality, and comparative studies such as the European election studies and the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project.

A US study of electoral outcomes over 44 years found that local college games up to 10 days before had an impact, with surprising results bestowing the most favour on incumbent politicians.

The well delineated time frame (a period of just a few hours) and frequency (every week) over an extended period (an entire TV season) provides a close to ideal test ground for the study of electoral outcomes as many of the assumptions implicitly used in the analysis of social phenomena are more easily arguable, if not trivially true, in the case of the American Idol competition.

They point to a study of the electoral roll conducted before the poll which found a worryingly high proportion of false or incomplete addresses, and untraceable or suspicious names—including 156 people registered at the same address.

This article studies the causal effect of electoral systems on fiscal outcomes using an empirical design exploiting a discontinuity in the application of electoral rules in Polish municipalities in the period 2002 2014.

Heretofore, scholars have studied these two instances of electoral rule choice separately and have come to quite different conclusions about the implications of strategic behavior of the relevant actors.

Hence this study has crucial implications for the students of electoral participation and scholars interested in the democratic outcomes of institutional design.

By George Packer February 7, 2013 Something unusual stopped me in these sentences from a Times article about a state-by-state study of flaws in the American electoral system: "A main goal of the exercise, which grew out of Professor Gerken's 2009 book, 'The Democracy Index,' was to shame poor performers into doing better, she said.

In assessing the accessibility of electoral systems for voters with disabilities, this study focuses on the Philippines, one of the earliest democracies in the South East Asian region.

We then consider the theoretical influences reflected in the several sub-fields of electoral behavior research that have been incorporated into the studies and their implications for the nature of inference.

The Clinton Centre was named in honour of the visit of US president Bill Clinton, and may achieve its new role in time for a visit by the next one, depending on the results of the study and US electoral results.