We report on a statistical analysis of the engagement in the electoral processes of all Brazilian cities by considering the number of party memberships and the number of candidates for mayor and councillor. By investigating the relationships between the number of party members and the population of voters, we have found that the functional forms of these relationships are well described by subl...

Despite increasingly large scale social protection programmes in Africa, we have limited evidence on the political economy processes involved. We investigate community-based processes for food aid allocation and the role of political and social networks, using the case of Ethiopia in the aftermath of a serious drought. Local political authorities are in charge of food transfers, in terms of fre...

Political thinking in terms of "left and "right" has successfully expanded from its originating Western European context all over the globe. In all included world regions except the Middle East, at least 60 percent of the total population are ready to place themselves on a respective LR-scale. In all regions, left-right self identifications are particularly widespread among the more educated an...

We report on a statistical analysis of the engagement in the electoral processes of all Brazilian cities by considering the number of party memberships and the number of candidates for mayor and councillor. By investigating the relationships between the number of party members and the population of voters, we have found that the functional form of these relationships are well described by sub-l...

Understanding political phenomena requires measuring the political preferences of society. We introduce a model based on mixtures of spatial voting models that infers the underlying distribution of political preferences of voters with only voting records of the population and political positions of candidates in an election. Beyond offering a costeffective alternative to surveys, this method pr...

The article provides an analysis of the starting positions and electoral prospects political parties on eve elections to State Duma Russian Federation 8th Convocation, which becomes especially relevant in context emergence new forces among participants election campaign. author investigated current trends development parliamentary non-parliamentary parties, relying methods observation, analysis...