Pii: S0261-3794(98)00035-3
نویسنده
چکیده
This article examines theoretical and historical issues raised by Donald Stokes’s classic 1960s articles on “Party Loyalty and the Likelihood of Deviating Elections,” “On the Existence of Forces Restoring Party Competition,” and “Parties and the Nationalization of Electoral Forces.” I use presidential election returns from 1868 to 1996 and a simple regression model to measure partisan, national, and sub-national forces in each election. My analysis suggests that the contemporary American electoral system is significantly more nationalized than the electoral system of a century ago, but no less partisan, no more volatile, and no less subject to competitive reequilibration. 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved
منابع مشابه
Pii: S0925-7721(98)00035-2
This paper studies the point location problem in Delaunay triangulations without preprocessing and additional storage. The proposed procedure finds the query point by simply “walking through” the triangulation, after selecting a “good starting point” by random sampling. The analysis generalizes and extends a recent result for d = 2 dimensions by proving this procedure takes expected time close ...
متن کاملAccess control and key management for mobile agents
Security is a fundamental precondition for the acceptance of mobile agent systems. In this paper we present a mobile agent structure which supports authentication, security management and access control for mobile agents.
متن کاملSelf-Reference and the Acyclicity of Rational Choice
Self-reference in semantics, which leads to well-known paradoxes, is a thoroughly researched subject. The phenomenon can appear also in decision theoretic situations. There is a structural analogy between the two and, more interestingly, an analogy between principles concerning truth and those concerning rationality. The former can serve as a guide for clarifying the latter. Both the analogies ...
متن کاملSystèmes de numération indépendants et syndéticité
Ce travail est dédié au sourire de M. P. Schützenberger, sourire incomparable, inoubliable, expression de qualités rarement rencontrées ensemble, génie et gentillesse, humour et rigueur intellectuelle, le tout appuyé sur un courage indomptable face aux épreuves de l’histoire ou de la vie. Dans les lignes qui vont suivre, il aurait reconnu – ou peut-être reconnaı̂t-il – la trace de quelques-unes ...
متن کامل