Analysis Of Criminal Liability Crime of Legislative Elections (Case Study Legislative Elections in Semarang)

Political Competition in Legislative Elections∗

We develop a theory of candidate nomination processes predicated upon the notion that members of the majority party in a legislature collaboratively influence policy. Because of this team aspect, a candidate’s party label matters for voters, in addition to his own policy positions: For example, in a liberal district, electing even a liberal Republican may be unattractive for voters because it i...

Voting in legislative elections under plurality rule

Conventional models of single district plurality elections show that with three parties anything can happen extreme policies can win regardless of voter preferences. I show that when there are multiple district elections for a legislature we get back to a world where the median voter matters: an extreme policy will generally only come about if it is preferred by the median voter in a majority o...

Gubernatorial Coattail Effects in State Legislative Elections

Dimensionality and the number of parties in legislative elections

This article explores how the party-defined dimensionality of political competition relates to the number of parties competing in legislative elections. It demonstrates that a mathematical relationship between the number of electoral parties and the literature’s concept of dimensionality follows from the variables’ definitions; conversely, it argues that exploring the relationship between the n...

Who Represents Whom: Strategic Voting and Conservatism in Legislative Elections∗

This paper examines voting equilibria in a citizen-candidate model with multiple constituencies. Voters in the constituencies elect representatives into a legislative assembly to make a policy choice. Representatives both make policy proposals and vote on each others’ proposals. The model thus formalizes the distinction between advocated policy and enacted policy in representation problems. Und...