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electoral behavior  

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  • In representative democracies, voting is one of the fundamental acts that allow citizens to express their belonging to a political community and to make decisions about their own future. Analyzing electoral behavior is one of the oldest and most productive domains of research in political science. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Electoral Behavior]

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