The Nationalization of Special Elections for the U.S. House of Representatives

Knotts, H. Gibbs; Ragusa, Jordan M.

doi:10.1080/17457289.2015.1063497

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“…In the Philippines and the United State, it is called special elections, by-polls in India. Knotts and Ragusa [41] state that they are called special elections in the US because they are not held on statutory Election Days.…”

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Election Security and Violence in Ghana: The Case of Ayawaso West Wougon and Talensi By-elections

Ijon

2020

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Conducts of by-elections in recent times have been fraught with a lot of security challenges. This has been as a result of the violence that characterized the conduct of by-elections in recent times in Ghana. Violence during by-elections in Ghana plays a vital role in securing election victories for political parties. In all the by-elections characterized by violence in Ghana, they were won by parties that were accused of inciting the violence. The main tenets of election violence as identified by the paper included, actors, motives, timing, consequences, and patterns. The paper adopted the content analysis method in its investigation of the two violent by-elections in Ghana. The paper revealed that there was a correlation between violence during by-elections and victories of incumbent parties. This was because, in the two by-elections understudy, those accused of starting the violence and using national security operatives won the elections. The paper also found out that by-election violence impacted negatively on Ghana’s democratic maturity in several ways, such as; low voter turnout, weakening of democratic foundation and breeding an atmosphere of insecurity. Finally, the paper also revealed that political parties especially those in government resort to violence during by-elections in Ghana because they fear losing it will mean the government was underperforming as argued out by Feigert and Norris and also because they want to add to their tally in parliament.

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Section: By-electionsmentioning

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Election Security and Violence in Ghana: The Case of Ayawaso West Wougon and Talensi By-elections

Ijon

2020

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“…63 Recent work has even shown that special elections-which occur off cycle and are thought to be highly candidate-centered contests-have developed into national contents since the 1990s. 64 We believe the nationalization of congressional campaigns fosters national economic voting, for two reasons. First, if these nationalized contests emphasize national issues, it is yet another reason why voters may be consuming more information about the national economy.…”

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The Geographies of Economic Voting in Presidential and Congressional Elections

Ragusa¹

2016

Political Science Quarterly

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We investigate this question by examining how changing economic conditions shape voting behavior at various geographic levels. Recent research has trended in the opposite direction: exploring nuanced questions with increasingly sophisticated methodologies. In contrast, we explore a basic-but nonetheless critical-issue in the economic voting literature. While researchers have studied the effect of national conditions JORDAN M.

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Forecasting multiparty by-elections using Dirichlet regression

Hanretty

2021

International Journal of Forecasting

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The Nationalization of Special Elections for the U.S. House of Representatives

Cited by 4 publications

References 36 publications

Election Security and Violence in Ghana: The Case of Ayawaso West Wougon and Talensi By-elections

Election Security and Violence in Ghana: The Case of Ayawaso West Wougon and Talensi By-elections

The Geographies of Economic Voting in Presidential and Congressional Elections

Forecasting multiparty by-elections using Dirichlet regression

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