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on Collective Decision-Making |
| By: | Venkat Ram Reddy Ganuthula; Krishna Kumar Balaraman |
| Abstract: | This study demonstrates the persistent dominance of identity based voting across democratic systems, using the United States as a primary case and comparative analyses of 19 other democracies as counterfactuals. Drawing solely on election data from the Roper Center (1976 through recent cycles), we employ OLS regression, ANOVA, and correlation tests to show that race remains the strongest predictor of party affiliation in the US (p |
| Date: | 2025–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2502.16524 |
| By: | Mia, Rubel; Hasan, Mehedi; Joynal, Abedin Md |
| Abstract: | This study intends to understand the local level politics in terms of changing political beliefs among the participants in the larger context of politics in Bogura, a northern district of Bangladesh. In particular, the research tries to investigate the voting behaviour during the national election of 2008 in Bogura. Though there are some studies about the national-level politics but still there is a dearth of researchers in understanding the local political dynamics. The study of a local-level election helps us engaging with different stakeholders and local agencies. To explore this research, with a list of questionnaires, researcher conducted interviews with grassroots level respondents’ including local politicians, civil society members, academicians and mass people to examine the attitudes, opinions, voting behaviour and the political environment of the locality in reference to the parliamentary election of 2008 in Bogura district, Bangladesh. The study has found that behaviour of voters was influenced by several factors such as religion, caste, community, language, money, policy or ideology, purpose of the polls, extent of the franchise, political wave etc which led the Bangladesh Awami League (AL) to capture two seats from Bogura district. Since then the contemporary Bangladeshi politics has taking place through conflicts and corruption. |
| Date: | 2024–09–15 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:vq647_v1 |
| By: | Philipp Denter |
| Abstract: | I analyze an election involving two parties who are both office- and policy-motivated and who are ideologically polarized. One party may possess a valence advantage. The parties compete by proposing policies on a second policy issue. The analysis reveals a subtle relationship between ideological polarization and policy polarization. If ideologies are highly dispersed, there is a U-shaped relationship between ideological polarization and platform polarization. In contrast, if ideological dispersion is limited, increasing ideological polarization generally results in policy moderation. In both cases, valence plays no role in policy polarization. Finally, as in Buisseret and van Weelden (2022), adding ideological polarization adds nuance on the effects of increasing valence: both high- and low-valence candidates may adopt more extreme positions, depending on the electorate's degree of ideological polarization. |
| Date: | 2025–02 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2502.14712 |