Inclement weather on election day is widely seen to benefit certain political parties at the expense of others. Empirical evidence for this weather-vote share hypothesis is sparse however. We examine the effects of rainfall and temperature on share of the votes of eight political parties that participated in 13 national parliament elections, held in the Netherlands from 1971 to 2010. This paper...

Why do people turn out to vote? By requiring coordination and by generating positive externalities on others while involving a private cost, turning out to vote resembles a public good contribution and is therefore subject to collective action problems. While this has been established theoretically, the empirical evidence is fraught with measurement and identification problems. We investigate w...

Inclement weather on election day is widely seen to benefit certain political parties at the expense of others. Empirical evidence for this weather-vote share hypothesis is sparse however. We examine the effects of rainfall and temperature on share of the votes of eight political parties that participated in 13 national parliament elections, held in the Netherlands from 1971 to 2010. This paper...

Parliamentary democracies represent a common type of governance structure in numerous countries. While details vary from one country to another, the structure of a parliamentary democracy entails having cabinet ministers who each have a specific portfolio of policy interests, such as healthcare, industry, or education. A set of ministers forms a government, and such governments can change due t...

This year (2014) in the month of May, the tenure of the 15th Lok Sabha was to end and the elections to the 543 parliamentary seats were to be held. With 813 million registered voters, out of which a 100 million were first time voters, India is the world’s largest democracy. A whooping $5 billion were spent on these elections, which made us stand second only to the US Presidential elections ($7 ...

In the history of implementation elections in Indonesia, term election supervision actually only emerged 1980. which were first held Indonesia 1955, was not yet known. that era,trust built among all participants and citizens regarding intended to form a parliamentary institution is currently it called as constituent.Although ideological conflict at time quite strong, can be said thre very minim...