PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS OF 1999: REGIONAL ASPECT

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...

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

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 ...

Coalition Termination and the Strategic Timing of Parliamentary Elections

Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive o...