As of the last election most of the elected MPs were aged between 50 and 59, with only 21 of them in their twenties or younger. In terms of gender, there are almost two male MPs for every one woman, although this is a much higher than in 1979 when only 3 percent of MPs were wome...
Everyone with a paid-up membership as of last Friday is supposed to be able to participate in the election, the first the party has held online. Klees said he called the help-line after spending two hours trying to register Thursday without success, a worker telling hi...
The scope of participation: Election laws, interest group mobilization, and public voting.This dissertation is comprised of three empirical studies that explore both the determinants and consequences of election law restrictiveness in the American states. The first study examines why states restrict the ...
All Directors are required to stand for re-election on an annual basis at the Company's annual general meeting in accordance with the Company's Articles of Association. The Board, through the Nomination Committee, will continue to review the Board's composition to ensure that the skills and ex...
County recorder and election offices (CREO) throughout the United States have generally found that HAVA is out of date with the modern computing technologies used to support electronic voting, and does not address the risks posed by tampering. Local election officials may have not been trained to...
This study examines the effect of social and ideological factors on voting behavior in the United States for the 1984 Presidential election. Based upon past theoretical and empirical research on voting behavior, a multivariate model was developed which incorporated the influence of social and ...
The people answering the door in the voting condition are found to be 9 percentage points more likely to vote than the people answering the door in the recycling condition. Roughly 60% of the increased propensity to vote is passed onto the other voter in the household. The conclusion reached...
The odds ratio of percentage of technology funding suggested that as technology funding increased in a bond issue, the chances of election success increased. The odds of a bond issue passing, however, was almost six times greater if it contained at least some funding for technology compared to ...
I find that incarceration rates rise by 2.2 to 2.6 percentage points in the election year, but only for criminal defendants who are black. These effects are more pronounced in districts where the median voter is expected to have higher levels of predicted prejudice.;The third chapter examines ...
Two longitudinal datasets, the National Election Study (1960--2000) and the General Social Survey (1974--2000), were used to test the hypotheses.;The first hypothesis was that there was a decrease in the percentage of Localists, a slight increase in the percentage of Cosmopolitans, a ...