Sentences with phrase «electoral competition for»

For example, with regard to attendance and turnover rates, the size of the payroll vote impacts negatively upon the level of electoral competition for chair positions and membership, and select committee work is often incompatible with other parliamentary duties such as constituency case work, scrutiny of legislation and contributing to debates.

Not exact matches

This is not, for me, a mere contest of ideologies, or a competition for electoral votes.

By using this rare historical data from Botswana — a country where, unusually for Africa, elections have been held consistently since independence in the late 1960s — the project team will be able to separate the impact of electoral competition from the changed donor pressures of the 1990s.

The resulting conclusions will increase our understanding of the impact of electoral competition on the all - too - scarce resources necessary for development.

Research from the good - government group Citizens Union confirms that the New York City elections, where public funding is already in place, allow for greater voter choice and more electoral competition, when compared with New York State races.

In South Africa the main stage for political competition has shifted inside the dominant African National Congress (ANC) which attained electoral landslides since 1994.

By contrast, the six Democrats vying for the seat, all newcomers to electoral politics, will need to spend heavily to earn name recognition and set themselves apart from their competition in a sprawling district that includes all of Ulster, Greene, Columbia, Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie and Sullivan counties and portions of Broome, Dutchess, Montgomery and Rensselaer.

If this analysis of the BES data is indicative then dramatic changes are in store for the geography of electoral competition in May 2015 with important implications for seats.

Britain's electoral landscape is dominated by safe seats, with very little competition for votes taking place within them.