General election, 1964
In: Representation, Band 4, Heft 16, S. 4-4
ISSN: 1749-4001
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In: Representation, Band 4, Heft 16, S. 4-4
ISSN: 1749-4001
In: Journal of local administration overseas, Band 3, S. 227-240
ISSN: 0309-5096
In: Public Administration and Development, Band 3, Heft 4, S. 227-240
ISSN: 1099-162X
The first firm step towards independence for the people of Papua-New Guinea was taken in 1964 with the election of a representative legislature. This book describes how the Members of the House of Assembly were chosen. Officials conducting the elections were confronted with the difficulties of making the electoral process comprehensible to men and women who had had no previous contact with the institutions of modern government. At the same time the local candidates lacked a party organization or a nationalist movement or ideology through which to appeal to the voters. In such circumstances the usual pattern of election studies, focused on a national campaign, would have been inappropriate. Instead the core of this book consists of twelve studies of different constituencies, typical of different parts of Papua and New Guinea, each written by an anthropologist or a political scientist who was either working in the area or visited it for the election period. These studies have a common framework, and they are accompanied by chapters on the Legislative Councils which preceded the House of Assembly, on the political education campaign conducted by the Australian Administration and on the administration of the elections themselves, on a seminar which was held after the elections to train the new Members in their parliamentary duties, and on the first two meetings of the House of Assembly. The authors provide a wealth of material on the problems of transitional political systems, few of which are so fragmented or so underdeveloped as Papua-New Guinea. Their book is also a contribution to the political history of that country, and as such reveals much of crucial importance about Australia{u2019}s nearest neighbour.
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In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 7-22
ISSN: 1467-8497
In: Political science research and methods: PSRM, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 775-794
ISSN: 2049-8489
Analyzing the British Election Study from 1964 to 2010, we examine the influence of electoral context on turnout, focusing on the closeness of elections in terms of lagged seat and constituency-level winning margins. Using cross-classified multilevel models to account for individual and contextual factors and disentangle life cycle, cohort- and election-specific effects, we find that closeness strongly affects voting behavior, particularly among new electors. Widening seat margins in British elections over the last decades have had a persistent impact on turnout. Respondents who faced less competitive environments when young are more likely to abstain in subsequent elections than those reaching voting age after close-fought races. We conclude that variations in competitiveness have had both short- and long-term effects on turnout.
In: Journal of Inter-American studies: a publication of the Center for Advanced International Studies, the University of Miami, Band 7, S. 375-384
ISSN: 0885-3118
In: Scandinavian political studies, Band 5, Heft A5, S. 241-283
ISSN: 1467-9477
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 143
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 5, S. 143-152
ISSN: 0261-3794
Estimates the likely changes in party support under different levels of turnout.
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Band 93, Heft 4, S. 665-678
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Band 93, Heft 4, S. 665-678
ISSN: 0032-3195
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In: Electoral Studies, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 143-152
In: The End of Class Politics?, S. 59-82
In: International journal / Canadian Institute of International Affairs, Band 22, Heft 2, S. 350-350
ISSN: 2052-465X