Malaysia's 2008 General Election – Transition from Single-party Dominance?

Malaysia’s 2008 General Election

Leading theories of transitions from single-party dominant systems begin with economic crisis, the party’s loss of patronage resources, and elite-level defections. The multiparty elections that are then held exert no independent effect, but instead register neutrally the party’s decline and the democratization of politics. This paper, however, shifts attention from the dominant party to citizen...

A Bayesian Model of Single Party Dominance

Motivated by the South African case, in this paper I present a new theory explaining the maintenance of single-party dominance in socially heterogeneous countries. The theory explores how citizens' beliefs about a dominant party structure both voter behavior and the electoral strategies of incumbent and opposition parties. Employing a two-part stylized formal model, I hypothesize that variation...

Election issues , political party performance and geography

Introduction Voters make decisions on whether to vote and who to vote for in places. Places are crucial because they not only provide the context for interaction and social identification but they are the containers in which parties operate and seek representation by socialising and mobilising voters to support them. Longstanding theories of party choice stress how such places provide the space...

Party Dominance in 18 Countries: The Role of Party Dominance in the Transmission of Political Ideology

Obtaining Batch Reports for Audits from Election Management Systems: ElectionAudits and the Boulder 2008 Election

Obtaining the data necessary to do the most effective and efficient audits from current Election Management Systems (EMS) can be difficult. For the Boulder 2008 election we developed procedures and software (ElectionAudits) to obtain suitable vote counts from the Hart InterCivic EMS, and automated many of the steps necessary to analyze the data and run the audit . Since Boulder stores its ballo...