In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first round automatically qualify for the second round, while a third candidate qualifies only when selected by m
This is a study of which parties (Party of Hope, Constitutional Democratic party, or independent) exiting Democratic Party of Japan incumbents joined in the 2017 Snap Election in Japan
Although the proportion of black, brown and indigenous electoral candidates in Brazil is close to the proportion of blacks, browns and indigenous in the general population, the proportion elected to t
Despite the prevalence of vote buying in many developing democracies, the evidence of its persuasive effects is very limited. This paper proposes a way to evaluate the electoral impact of vote buying