Moods of Bitterness: How Political Polarisation has Influenced Zimbabwean Elections

how geopolitics of iran has influenced on good boundary

abstract: iran passed wide range of events over her controversies history. it has great special geopolitics position, natural resources and cultural values. iran is in asia and connects asia to europe. iran as relational bridge has an important role so that it could be an important center during first and second world war for enemies' forces in spite of explicit neuter declaration from ira...

Polarisation in political Twitter conversations

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Think tanks in sub-Saharan Africa: how the political landscape has influenced their origins - - Research reports and studies

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...

Formal Models of Elections and Political Bargaining

The key theoretical idea in this paper is that activist groups contribute resources to their favored parties in response to policy concessions from the parties. These resources are then used by a party to enhance the leader’s valence — the electoral perception of the quality of the party leader. The equilibrium result is that parties, in order to maximize vote share, will balance a centripetal ...