ELECTION. The concept of divine election appears in a number of religious traditions that espouse belief in an omnipotent and personal God. Although not unknown among certain religious groups in ancient Greece and India, it has had particular...

the formal process of selecting a person for public office or of accepting or rejecting a political proposition by voting. It is important to distinguish between the form and the substance of elections. In some cases, electoral forms are present but...

Elections Whether the subject is political transition in the former Soviet Union, South Africa, Romania, or Iraq, the movement toward democracy has been, and continues to be, symbolized by elections. If...

In politics elections are a device whereby popular preferences are aggregated to choose an officeholder. Choice by elections is now almost inseparable from representative democracy. Some see the opportunity for choice at periodic elections as the key...

The paradox of the antebellum denominational model—vigorous activity by individual religious communities (often in direct competition with other groups) and at the same time a sense of shared cooperation in the larger task of maintaining the...

An election is a method of choosing among candidates for some post or office, and elections have become the only fully respectable method for selecting political leaders and governors throughout the world. Even a country which is universally known to...

. The word “election” has an ecclesiastical meaning, describing the process for choosing abbots and bishops. It also referred to the geographical jurisdiction of the the fiscal officers called élus. Yet it had a particular significance...

Formal process by which voters make their political choices on public issues or candidates for public office. The use of elections in the modern era dates to the emergence of representative government in Europe and North America since the 17th century....

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An election is a decision making process where a population chooses an individual to hold official offices. This is the usual mechanism by which modern democracy fills offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for...