indirect election

process in which voters in an election do not choose between candidates for an office, but elect persons who will then make the choice; e.g. in Germany, voters elect Landtag, who elect the state government, which appoints its members to Bundesrat
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indirect election

Summary

indirect election is an electoral system[1]. It draws 314 Wikipedia views per month (electoral_system category, ranking #5 of 32).[2]

Key Facts

  • indirect election's instance of is recorded as electoral system[3].
  • indirect election's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 133221426[4].
  • indirect election's subclass of is recorded as public election[5].
  • indirect election's opposite of is recorded as direct election[6].
  • indirect election's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02_sv_[7].
  • indirect election's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Indirect elections[8].
  • indirect election's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[9].
  • indirect election's NE.se ID is recorded as indirekt-val[10].
  • indirect election's National Library of Korea ID is recorded as KSH1998005350[11].
  • indirect election's EuroVoc ID is recorded as 698[12].
  • indirect election's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 211201[13].
  • indirect election's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 136135[14].

Why It Matters

indirect election draws 314 Wikipedia views per month (electoral_system category, ranking #5 of 32).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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