Party Nomination System in the Local Government Elections

Campaign Spending in the Local Government Elections of 1999

For the first time in Irish electoral history, the 1999 local elections required candidates to publicly declare their campaign expenditures. Drawing on these data, we explore patterns in campaign spending and assess their impact, both on candidate success and on turnout. First, examining the elections contested by 1,838 candidates from 180 local constituencies and 34 councils, we identify both ...

Testing the eSTV program for the Scottish Local Government Elections

1 Management Summary This report deals with the testing of eSTV software from ERS, Electoral Reform Services. The purpose of the test is to determine the conformance of eSTV to the WIG-rule [1]. In order to determine conformance we have created a new implementation of the rule in the functional programming language Clean [4]. Since this language uses a different programming paradigm and the imp...

Cost-of-Ruling in a Local Multiparty system The effects of party prominence and political company in Swedish local elections

Crashing the Party? Elites, Outsiders, and Elections∗

We study an elections model in which political parties are internally divided between an “elite” and a “base” whose preferences are imperfectly aligned. Elites are better informed about the quality of potential nominees, and their endorsements can identify and promote high quality candidates. However, elites may also choose to restrict their endorsements to candidates who adopt their preferred ...

The Evolution of Party Systems between Elections

Most existing theoretical work on party competition pays little attention to the evolution of party systems between elections as a result of defections between parties. In this article, we treat individual legislators as utility-maximizing agents tempted to defect to other parties if this would increase their expected payoffs. We model the evolution of party systems between elections in these t...