What citizens think about minority governments in majority coalition settings

T Matthieß, C Stecker - Parliamentary Affairs, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Political scientists have extensively studied the formation, management, or performance of
minority governments. However, we still do not know much about citizens' perspectives on …

Alternatives to plurality rule for single-winner elections: When do they make a difference?

R Lachat, JF Laslier - European Journal of Political Economy, 2024 - Elsevier
Declining levels of turnout and growing distrust in political elites are often seen as symptoms
of a crisis of representative democracy. Various proposals of reform have been made to …

[PDF][PDF] 23 Citizens' support for citizens' assemblies

D Talukder, JB Pilet - De Gruyter handbook of citizens' …, 2023 - library.oapen.org
In this chapter, David Talukder and Jean-Benoit Pilet analyse support for a greater use of
citizens' assemblies among citizens. They combine new analyses of recent comparative …

Stability or Stagnation: Non-Monotonic Association Between Party System Closure and Satisfaction With Democracy

A Hunter - Political Studies Review, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Satisfaction with democracy is a widely studied measure of political support that is key for
democratic stability. In this article, I explore its relationship with party system closure, that is …

Preferences for single-party versus multi-party governments

S Bowler, J Freebourn, P Teten, T Donovan… - Party …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The literature on comparative political institutions highlights a tradeoff between
majoritarian/plurality and proportional/consensus models of democracy. The former …

The Pitkinian Public: Representation in the eyes of citizens

L Lavi, C Treger, N Rivlin-Angert, T Sheafer… - European Political …, 2024 - Springer
Democracy is backsliding in Europe and around the world as citizens' trust in elected
representatives and institutions wanes. Representation theories and studies have mostly …

Justifying types of representative democracy: a response

S Ganghof - Critical Review of International Social and Political …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This article responds to critical reflections on my Beyond Presidentialism and
Parliamentarism by Sarah Birch, Kevin J. Elliott, Claudia Landwehr and James L. Wilson. It …

Rule of the Fewer: Electoral Inversions and Their Consequences

JRC Friedman - 2024 - search.proquest.com
The advent of democracy is supposed to represent a transition from the rule of the few to the
rule of the many. In this folkloric account, majority rule is both the embodiment of democracy …

DO LEADERS MATTER? A CASE STUDY FOR THE LOCAL ELECTIONS IN ROMANIA, IASI COUNTY, FROM 2020-2024

Ț Dorina - Scientific Annals of the “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” …, 2024 - anale.fssp.uaic.ro
DO LEADERS MATTER? A CASE STUDY FOR THE LOCAL ELECTIONS IN ROMANIA, IASI
COUNTY, FROM 2020-2024 Page 1 147 SCIENTIFIC ANNALS OF „ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA” …

DO LEADERS MATTER? A CASE STUDY FOR THE LOCAL ELECTIONS IN ROMANIA, IASI COUNTY, FROM 2020-2024.

D ŢICU - Scientific Annals of the'Al. I. Cuza'University, Iasi …, 2024 - search.ebscohost.com
This article aims to make a theoretical incursion on electoral behaviour through the prism of
the relations that matter when voters choose, insisting on determinisms that can matter to …