Within the first few months of 2020, many problematic events have occurred. More some relevant than others, such as the global pandemic and the high number of unemployed people during said pandemic. The pandemic is causing many issues society is not used to facing and we are being forced to overcome these obstacles in the...
Literature Reviews Starting from the Bangkok Declaration signed by Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand in 1967, ASEAN enlarged its size by adding Brunei Darussalam in 1984, and Vietnam in 1995, Laos PDR and Myanmar in 1997, and Cambodia in 1999, covering the whole South East Asia region, except a small young state, Timor-Leste which...
Introduction To introduce this paper, I will first introduce my research question which can be used in comparative politics research. As Giger (2009) concluded, in Europe, the voting behaviour of women is different from the voting behaviour of men. Her findings suggest that women tend to vote more to the ‘left’ than men. She speaks...
Introduction Representation is the basis of modern democratic theory. In most mature electoral democracies, this is achieved through regular elections. These provide voters with the opportunity to select their representatives, whose policy goals align with their own. This chapter explores how citizens in electoral democracies vote and some of the key influences on their behaviour....
There is a significant difference between factors that are considered to be accountable for shifts in voting behaviour in the 1950s and those which are commonly cited today. However, some of these present similar characteristics, which is the reason why this divergence in electoral determinants should perhaps be considered a naturalizing evolution rather than a...
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Voting behavior is a form of political behavior. Understanding voters’ behavior can explain how and why decisions were made either by public decision-makers, which has been a central concern for political scientists Goldman (2006), or by the electorate. To interpret voting behavior both political science and psychology expertise were necessary and therefore the field of...
Assignment 3. The theory that campaign contributions influence voting behaviour enjoys the support of several studies throughout political literature. Numerous studies have examined the relationship between campaign contributions and their consequent effect on congressional voting and finally, policy outcomes (Austen-Smith, 1987; Chappell, 1982; Wawro, 2001). Previous literature has explained the impact of interest groups’ campaign...
Social media has propelled itself into the public eye in recent years. Multiple social media sites have a high rank of registered users, whom have the chance to follow, like and share their interests. Over the past few years, politicians and political parties have switched from using traditional media i.e. Newspapers, and instead are using...
Without a reasonable doubt, the entry of voters into the political arena marks a defining moment in a country’s politics. However, since Jamaica’s transition to an independent self government, it is amongst the few countries who has employed a competitive party system (Stone, 1978). There has been a lack of literature as it relates to...