Authoritarian regimes often have used elections as a way to achieve a degree of popular legitimacy.
They used elections to monopolize power, denigrate adversaries and solidify ties with Islamist hard-liners.
Al-Qaeda has used elections before to stage some of their most horrific attacks, such as in Spain in 2004.
Simply put, the Kremlin has used elections as a tool to keep the established regime in place, not to help choose new leaders.
— DAVID CARR On Election Night, "coattails" can also mean a marketer's trying to get noticed by using election language in ads.
Using election counterfactuals and applying spatial voting theory, we examine these arguments.
We use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the causal effect of incumbency using election data from Ireland's system of proportional representation with a single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Senator Ron Wyden, for instance, recently introduced The Protecting American Votes and Elections Act of 2018, which would require every state to use election machines with paper ballots and mandate risk-limiting post-election audits (the "gold standard" of election auditing).
After arguing that citizen participation is inextricably linked to good urban governance, a process by which to build and evaluate relevant indicators is developed, using election data from Greater Vancouver.
