Parliamentary Elections and New Political Situation in Ukraine

Elections and Durable Governments in Parliamentary Democracies

This paper provides a theory of a parliamentary government system with proportional representation elections and policy-motivated parties and voters. In a symmetric, spatial model governments are majoritarian, they and their policies are durable, and voters elect minority parliaments in every period. A continuum of (Markov) political equilibria exist with policies that represent concessions to ...

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 ...

Ukraine's 2006 parliamentary elections: first conclusions

New Jersey political update: Special elections, general elections and hot topic issues in Trenton.

Coalition Termination and the Strategic Timing of Parliamentary Elections

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