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Die Verfasserin setzt sich mit Repräsentanzproblemen im Zusammenhang mit Stichprobenverfahren bei Telefonumfragen auseinander. Repräsentanzprobleme werden auf vier Ebenen diskutiert: (1) unvollständige Ausstattung der Zielgruppenelemente mit Telefon als grundsätzliches Repräsentanzproblem; (2) Ziehung einer Telefonstichprobe als Repräsentanzproblem: Auswahl auf Listenbasis, zufällig generierte Telefonnummern; (3) Auswahl innerhalb eines 'Telefon-Haushaltes' als Repräsentanzproblem; (4) unvollständige Ausschöpfung der Stichprobe als Repräsentanzproblem. Abschließend werden weitere Forschungsfragen auf dem Gebiet der Telefonumfragen formuliert. (ICE)

This research note summarizes initial research from a wider project on the determinants of candidate selection procedures. It seeks to contribute to the growing literature on candidate selection by distinguishing transitional and institutionalized democracies. First, it provides a review of the existing literature, with particular emphasis placed on identifying the existing hypotheses on the determinants of candidate selection procedures. Second, it elucidates why transitional polities differently constrain the choice of legislative candidate selection procedures compared to institutionalized democracies. Third, several hypotheses derived from the literature indicate that the barriers to adopting inclusive legislative candidate selection procedures are higher in transitional than in institutionalized democracies.

It has been argued that inclusive and decentralized selection procedures create greater incentives for parliamentarians to enhance their personal reputations. However, while the observable implications of this theory are at the level of individual members, the empirical data often brought to bear on this question to date have been collected at an aggregate level—the partisan bloc or legislative term. Despite some previously positive aggregate results, the author finds no discernible support for the connection between candidate selection procedures and vote-seeking behavior in Israel at the individual parliamentarian level. The author suggests an alternative theory—based on the stage of the legislative career—that explains both individual-level behavior and the aggregate-level trend.

This study was prepared by the Centre d'étude de la vie politique (Cevipol), part of the Institute for European Studies (IEE) and the Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques (FSP) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). It provides a systematic and thorough account of candidate selection procedures for the European elections. It covers four aspects: (1) a general overview of candidate selection procedures in the major parties of all EU Member States; (2) a detailed account of the candidate selection procedures for a sample of countries/parties, based on an analysis of the formal and informal practices; (3) an investigation into the relations between national political parties, political groups in the EP, and the European political parties; and (4) the provision of recommendations as to how to improve the democratic quality of candidate selection for the European elections. ; IP/C/AFCO/IC/2013-053 ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Evidence exists which suggests that organisations may have
misinterpreted the intent and letter of the current US law in personnel
selection. The flawed response that many organisations have taken as a
result of this misinterpretation is described. While "unfair
discrimination" is reprehensible, data and logic are presented
which suggest that adverse impact in selection can be both acceptable
and necessary in a responsible organisation.

This report mainly discusses about the Rules Governing Selection Procedures on House Standing Committee Chairs. House rules,republican conference rules,Democratic caucus rules each detail aspect of the procedures followed in selecting standing committee chairs.

This report mainly discusses about the Rules Governing Selection Procedures on House Standing Committee Chairs. House rules,republican conference rules,Democratic caucus rules each detail aspect of the procedures followed in selecting standing committee chairs.

Opening-up processes of candidate selection is often viewed as a means for political parties to regain legitimacy, and perhaps more crucially, members and voters. Despite a widespread belief that citizens want more democracy, including within parties, little research has questioned what sort of opening-up is desired—e.g. open or closed primaries—if at all, and by what type of citizens. Using data of the 2014 PartiRep voter survey in Belgium, we examine the diversity of preferences regarding candidate selection, and the extent to which preferences for open or closed primaries relate to voters' participation in party organisations. Given the diversification of party affiliation types, we operationalise participation through two distinct variables: the formal party membership status of the respondents, and their party activism. We show that both membership and activism influence individual preferences, and that their effects are in fact conditional upon each other. Findings also raise crucial issues regarding the consequences of the multiplication of affiliation modes, the motivations and direction of intra-party reforms, as well as feed the debate on their expected versus genuine consequences. ; SCOPUS: ar.j ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Strategies for model selection within the regression framework typically involve choices among several sometimes competing criteria. In this article, the interrelated criteria of goodness-of-fit and parameter invariance are explored with respect to a class of maximum likelihood network autocorrelation models. A GLS measure of generalized goodness-of-fit, R2G, is proposed for these models based on the equivalence of ML and GLS in the exponential family. This R2G statistic can be used to test for stability of parameters across various samples or subsamples. A second test of parameter invariance across subsamples is proposed: Schwarz's (1978) information Criterion. An example illustrates how these identification and testing procedures may be jointly used to help select the most adequate model for a given data set.

AbstractIn the past several decades, many ranking‐and‐selection (R&S) procedures have been developed to select the best simulated system with the largest (or smallest) mean performance measure from a finite number of alternatives. A major issue to address in these R&S problems is to balance the trade‐off between the effectiveness (ie, making a correct selection with a high probability) and the efficiency (ie, using a small total number of observations). In this paper, we take a frequentist's point of view by setting a predetermined probability of correct selection while trying to reduce the total sample size, that is, to improve the efficiency but also maintain the effectiveness. In particular, in order to achieve this goal, we investigate combining various variance reduction techniques into the fully sequential framework, resulting in different R&S procedures with either finite‐time or asymptotic statistical validity. Extensive numerical experiments show great improvement in the efficiency of our proposed procedures as compared with several existing procedures.