This dissertation is about ‘contamination’, or the interaction between the two built-in arenas found in mixed-member electoral systems: the single-seat district (SSD) and proportional representation (PR) arenas. Contamination ...
This thesis addresses the omission in the literature of how political context influences
the performance of informational shortcuts. In line with this research gap, the first
article suggests that parliamentarian and ...
According to the Duvergerian theories, only viable parties would be
expected to stand for elections alone in the long run, whereas nonviable
parties would be thought to join a pre-electoral coalition with
another party or ...
Rowe, Kelly T.(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014-07-31)
The number of people choosing to vote or abstain varies over elections and across
countries. The reasons why individuals may choose to vote in one election but not the
next are not completely known. Election context seems ...
This thesis is focused on the nationalization of party systems in Western Europe and combines four different approaches. Despite the literature claiming that political decentralization reduces party system nationalization, ...
Nguyen, My Land Do(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-02-26)
The purpose of this dissertation is to systematically investigate the theoretical perspective that political power derives from socioeconomic power—a fundamental tenet of both sociological theories of assimilation and ...
