This paper documents that surprise election outcomes - measured as deviations between realised vote shares and expected vote shares based on a newly constructed dataset of opinion polls and party and candidate vote shares close to election day - are causing non-negligible short-term contractions...

We analyzed strategies and tactics of the Kremlin-linked Russian operative, the Internet Research Agency (IRA) based on 3,519 Facebook/Instagram ads released by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI, November 2017; May 2018).The findings of our HPSCI analysis are generally...

Fiji’s 2018 National Elections was narrowly won by the FijiFirst Party (FFP), which formed government with twenty seven seats in Fiji’s fifty one seat parliament. On the other side, Fiji’s opposition was formed by the Social Liberal Democratic Party (SODELPA) and National Federation Party...

In this paper we study the effect of electoral competition on corruption. Our theory shows that when electoral uncertainty is high, as is expected in many developing countries, there is a U-shaped relationship between electoral competition and corruption. We illustrate the predictions of the...

This article examines the social stigma of defunct corruption convicted criminals in Indonesia's parliament elections using the stigma concept and human rights. This research is a socio-legal cogitate which disfigures the challenges of the electoral social stigma of peoples' political freedoms...