Abstract While the EU’s importance has grown for decision-making, both in politics and policies, following a decade of crises, its accountability mechanisms at EU level have remained largely untouched. Most studies which research way is being legitimised focus on European Parliament elections. In this book, we argue that to understand how works, it necessary instead national elections political...

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated long-standing socio-economic vulnerabilities, which were further compounded by persistent energy shortages, flood-related damages at end-2021, and a sharp increase in global fuel food prices caused the war Ukraine. These have put pressure on domestic inflation, aggravated electricity disrupted business activities, with negative implications for growth 2022. Pro...

Preventive policy measures such as bailouts often pass parliament very narrowly. We present a model of asymmetric information between politicians and voters which rationalizes this narrow parliamentary outcome. A successful preventive policy impedes the verifi cation of its own necessity. When policy intervention is necessary but voters disagree ex-ante, individual politicians have an incentive...

The Norwegian government ran trials of internet remote voting during the 2011 municipal elections and the 2013 parliamentary elections. From a simplified version of the voting protocol used there, the essential cryptographic operations of the voting protocol has been put together into a cryptosystem in which one can build the voting protocol on top of. This paper proposes a new instantiation of...

This article is devoted to the research on phenomenon of absenteeism and its influence electoral process. The aim present types absenteeism, causes occurrence ways overcoming absenteeism. It necessary mention becoming into subject study by sociologists, politicians, later lawyers. According Article 4 Constitutional law RA "Electoral Code": "Elections shall be held basis principles free voluntar...

Preventive policy measures such as bailouts often pass parliament very narrowly. We present a model of asymmetric information between politicians and voters which rationalizes this narrow parliamentary outcome. A successful preventive policy impedes the verifi cation of its own necessity. When policy intervention is necessary but voters disagree ex-ante, individual politicians have an incentive...

We visualize aggregate outputs of popular multiwinner voting rules—SNTV, STV, Bloc, k-Borda, Monroe, Chamberlin– Courant, and PAV—for elections generated according to the two-dimensional Euclidean model. We consider three applications of multiwinner voting, namely, parliamentary elections, portfolio/movie selection, and shortlisting, and use our results to understand which of our rules seem to ...

Parliamentary elections in Egypt this month look set to change the political landscape. Former member of parliament and equity campaigner Hoda Rashad tells Fiona Fleck why the country's public health programmes need to take a social justice approach.

The first European elections in the Union of 25 were held on 10-13 June 2004. As a result, the European Parliament has become the world’s largest democratically-elected parliamentary chamber, having grown from 198 members before the first direct elections in 1979 to the present total of 732, bringing together representatives of over 100 different political parties from across a continent. The f...

We provide a welfare analysis of early elections in a dynamic model of political competition with endogenous political blockades. Blockades arise if a party wins an election due to the support of voters with extreme policy preferences. We show that flexible election timing has the advantage that political blockades are overcome and political decisions are taken more frequently, but also the dis...