Why Do Non‐Resident Citizens Get Elected? Candidates' Electoral Success in Ecuadorian Extraterritorial Districts

IF 2.5 3区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics and Governance Pub Date : 2024-02-06 DOI:10.17645/pag.7495

Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero, Patricio Navia

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Abstract

To the growing literature on non-resident citizens’ special representation, we contribute with a systematic examination of the role of descriptive representation of citizens living abroad in elections for extraterritorial districts. Using data for the 308 candidacy observations in three two-seat extraterritorial districts in five legislative elections held between 2007 and 2021 in Ecuador, for a total of 30 seats, we test four hypotheses related to the electoral rules, party-level, and socio-demographic factors of non-resident candidates. Ecuadorian non-resident candidates benefit from their incumbency position and party affiliation, along with left-wing ideological ascription and belonging to party organizations that pushed for voting rights abroad and that manifest an interest in emigrant issues. This article contributes to showing what gets emigrants elected in extraterritorial seats and offers a within-country comparison connecting elections with legislative politics across national borders.

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非居民公民为何当选？候选人在厄瓜多尔域外选区的选举成功率

在有关非居民公民特殊代表性的文献日益增多的情况下，我们对居住在国外的公民在境外选区选举中的描述性代表性的作用进行了系统研究，为这一研究做出了贡献。我们利用 2007 年至 2021 年期间厄瓜多尔举行的五次立法选举中三个两席域外选区（共 30 个席位）的 308 个候选观察数据，检验了与非居民候选人的选举规则、政党层面和社会人口因素相关的四个假设。厄瓜多尔的非居民候选人得益于他们的现任职位和党派关系，以及左翼意识形态归属和所属党派组织，这些党派组织在国外推动投票权，并对移民问题表现出兴趣。这篇文章有助于说明是什么让移民在域外席位上当选，并提供了一个国内比较，将选举与跨国界的立法政治联系起来。

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Politics and Governance POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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4.90

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4.50%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

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