In this paper we suggest a generic re-engineering methodology for the organized redesign of the electoral process to an e-electoral process. Based on the hypothesis that the electoral process has been through a “silent” re-engineering phase, we present the process re-engineering concepts which can be used to depict the redesign of the electoral process to an e-electoral process through the use ...

Present research on minor party performance consists largely of singlecountry studies or pooled studies including a raft of widely varying electoral systems. This study examines the topic from a cross-national perspective, but is limited to democratic polities with single-member districts and first-past-the-post rules. An original dataset is compiled including 217 elections drawn from 37 countr...

This study investigates the effects of electoral systems on ethnic fractionalization in democratic states. The paper addresses the following two questions: (1) does a country’s electoral system have an effect on its level of ethnic fractionalization; and (2) if there is such a relationship, is this effect uniform across all electoral systems or do certain electoral systems effect levels of ethn...

this study questions why this is so and analyses the factors that prevent women from participating in the parliamentary election in iran. the purpose of this research is to study the an analysis of the factors influencing women’s participation in the parliamentary election in iran. it focuses on socio-political factors influencing the participation of women as electorate in the five general ele...

AMICI is an association of parents who have come together to provide counsel for people, mainly students, between the ages of 17 and 24. We expect help with any problem with which parents may be faced?not only those we have experienced in our ?vvn families, but those we have ourselves been fortunate enough to miss. The association was founded in October, 1964, but some of the members have been ...

This article follows previous research concerning how gender operates in electoral campaigns. The purpose of this is to understand the way visual culture interrelates with a gendered political culture. A qualitative methodological design was used, based on photographic records posters displayed public spaces Valparaíso and Santiago during two campaigns held Chile respectively for 2016 municipal...

■ Abstract In this review article, I identify the key questions raised by the treatment of electoral systems not as causal influences on party systems but as effects or byproducts of party systems. Framing these questions in the context of the classic consequences-oriented study of electoral institutions, I first review the classic approach, which treats electoral systems as causes, and explore...

Electoral heresthetics, or the manipulation of electoral systems to a political player’s advantage, had profound political consequences for post-communist transitional Poland. Choices of di¤erent electoral systems contributed ...rst to the fall of communism and later to the reclaiming of power by the postcommunists. Despite high stakes and top priority attached by political players to electoral...

This paper examines the relationship between electoral systems and female representation in four post-communist states that use mixed electoral systems. Mixed electoral systems provide an excellent laboratory to test electoral system effects because voters cast two ballots under very different electoral rules. If the PR and SMD tiers of mixed elections are treated separately, one can study the ...

The United States, uniquely among all countries, elects its head of state using a two-tiered system called the Electoral College. If we view the states that make up the Electoral College as voters and make some simplifying assumptions, it is possible to use the theory of voting and voting power to measure the power of the individual states in a presidential election. Modeling the Electoral Coll...