European Parliamentary Elections Act 1999: the constitutional issues

e - politics : What ’ s going on ? The case of the Finnish Parliamentary elections in 1999

"The electric energy can be applied indifferently and quickly to many kinds of tasks" (McLuhan, 1964, p. 350). When applied in the Internet and www the man has created a new extension, a new medium. The application of this medium has effects on many areas of social conduct. In this paper we explore the application of the Internet and www in party politics and our case material is gathered aroun...

"Off-line": The 2004 European parliamentary elections on television news in the enlarged Europe

We outline the competitive television news market in the enlarged European Union (EU) and demonstrate the continued importance of traditional media, in particular television, in the context of proliferation in choice of news sources, including on-line news services. Drawing upon a content analysis of the most widely watched evening television news programs in each of the EU countries, we find t...

Forecasting Parliamentary Outcomes in Multiparty Elections : Hungary

Forecasting seat outcomes in legislative elections in countries with stable, two-party systems is su ciently challenging as to have proven elusive for much of democratic experience. Forecasting an election in a relatively new democracy with a uid multi-party system, therefore, would seem on its face to be a hopeless objective. In this paper I attempt to demonstrate that election forecasting in ...

Constitutional quandaries and critical elections

In his book on Liberalism against Populism, William Riker argued that Lincoln’s success in the 1860 election was the culmination of a long progression of strategic attempts by the Whig coalition of commercial interests to defeat the ‘Jeffersonian-Jacksonian’ Democratic coalition of agrarian populism. Riker adduced Lincoln’s success to his ‘heresthetic’ maneuver to force his competitor, Douglas,...

Ukraine's 2006 parliamentary elections: first conclusions