Browsing BI Open by Author "Cox, Gary W."
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Measuring the Competitiveness of Elections
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon Hernes; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The concept of electoral competition plays a central role in many subfields of political science, but no consensus exists on how to measure it. One key challenge is how to conceptualize and measure electoral competitiveness ... -
Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M.; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections, where seat outcomes are uncertain only for candidates in marginal list positions? We argue that parties can solve this moral hazard problem by ... -
Moral hazard in electoral teams: List rank and campaign effort
Fiva, Jon H.; Sørensen, Rune Jørgen; Cox, Gary W.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)How do parties motivate candidates to exert effort in closed-list elections, where seat outcomes are uncertain only for candidates in marginal list positions? We argue that parties can solve this moral hazard problem by ... -
Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)A prominent line of theories holds that proportional representation (PR) was introduced in many European democracies by a fragmented bloc of conservative parties seeking to preserve their legislative seat shares after ... -
Seniority-Based Nominations and Political Careers
Cirone, Alexandra; Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper investigates party use of seniority systems to allocate nominations for elected and appointed offices. Such systems, which can regulate party members’ access to offices at multiple levels of their careers, are ... -
The contraction effect: How proportional representation affects mobilization and turnout
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)A substantial body of research examines whether increasing the proportionality of an electoral system increases turnout, mostly based on cross-national comparisons. In this study, we offer two main contributions to the ... -
The Contraction Effect: How Proportional Representation Affects Mobilization and Turnout
Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, Daniel M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)A substantial body of research examines whether increasing the proportionality of an electoral system increases turnout, mostly based on cross-national comparisons. In this study, we offer two main contributions to the ...