The paper concerns the subject of early mayoral elections at town level in Ruda Śląska, held September 2022. As a background for presentation central case, article refers to other earlier same term (after 2018). main aim analysis is verify research hypothesis that mayors, Poland after 2018, confirm application principle direct favors candidates independent state-wide parties. source material co...

This study focuses on the 1922 legislative elections that took place in six electoral districtsof Alentejo (Portugal).It addresses topics related to political contextualization, choice of candidates for deputies, campaign, clientelism, fraud and agreements.It also presents a review results Alentejo, moving away from numbers followed by Portuguese historiography

Our study concerns the factors leading to electoral success and failure of LGBTQ candidates in context changing nature prejudices. We hypothesize that more positive views toward “respectability candidates,” as captured by familial status, has replaced explicit prejudice out societies where acceptance sexual minorities general grown. In a survey experiment conducted with sample Canadian voters, ...

Little research has focused on how legislative candidates’ personal electoral support develops over time and why. This study examines the vote trajectories of individual candidates they vary according to vote-earning attributes. Longitudinal data 1700 who between 1999 2019 participated in two or more parliamentary elections Finnish open-list proportional representation system are analysed. The ...

This paper is devoted to the analysis of all constitutions equipped with electoral systems involving two step procedures. First, one candidate is elected in every jurisdiction by the electors in that jurisdiction, according to some aggregation procedure. Second, another aggregation procedure collects the names of the jurisdictional winners in order to designate the final winner. It appears that...

In low-information elections, voters are likely to rely on heuristics when choosing candidates. Based on survey experiments conducted prior to Brazil’s 2012 municipal elections, I examine the effect of candidates’ professional titles, such as “doctor” and “pastor,” on voting behavior. Using the “pastor” title in one’s electoral name tends to decrease vote intention, although evangelical Christi...

We develop a model of electoral competition in which two parties compete for votes amongst three groups of voters. Each party first internally selects one of two candidates to run in a general election. Candidates within a party share a fixed ideological platform and can promise a distribution of a unit of public spending across groups. Without primary elections, the selection process is random...

Vote-buying, i.e., gifts given to voters before the elections in exchange for their votes, is a frequent practice during electoral campaigns in many parts of the world. However, in the presence of secret ballots, it is not clear whether and how vote-buying drives voting behavior. This paper proposes a simple model of vote-buying with two candidates where (i) the level of enforcement of vote-buy...

Reports on the state of the horserace and analysis of the candidates’ strategies are pervasive themes in news coverage of campaigns. Various explanations have been suggested for the dominance of strategy-oriented over hard news. The most frequently identified factors are the length of the modern campaign, the built-in conflict between journalists and campaign operatives, and the pressures of th...

Younger adults (YA) judgments of political candidates' competence from facial appearance accurately predict electoral success. Whether this is true for older adults (OA) has not been investigated despite the fact that OA are more likely to vote than YA and may respond differently to particular facial qualities. We examined whether OA and YA ratings of competence, trustworthiness, attractiveness...