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Social Networks in Political Campaigns : Facebook and Congressional Elections 2006, 2008

Williams, Christine B.; Gulati, Jeff - 2012

This paper affords an opportunity to study the early adoption and dissemination of emerging technology tools in campaigns by analyzing which candidates were the most likely to use Facebook in the 2006 and 2008 congressional elections, and how. The research hypotheses draw from the diffusion of...

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Constituency Campaigns in the 2005 German Federal Elections : Patterns, Motivations, and Effects

Zittel, Thomas - 2009

Local Campaigns are frequently studied phenomena in the context of first past the post voting systems such as the UK …

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Political Risk and Strategic Investing : Explaining Political Parties and Interest Groups' Contributions in State Supreme Court Elections

Easter, Beth - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to analyze under what conditions political parties and interest groups are more likely to participate in state supreme court elections. This paper focuses on the amount of money that each group contributed to judicial candidates in partisan and non-partisan elections...

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Weighing the Alternatives : Preferences, Parties, and Constituency in Roll Call Voting

Ramey, Adam - 2009

place on their preferences, party, and constituency in roll call voting. Estimation is within a Bayesian IRT framework. The …

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From Geopolitics to Cultural Affinity : The Change in Voting Behavior in Eurovision Song Contest

Ural, Basak Y.; Bondanella, Stacy M. - 2009

Using Eurovision Song Contest data from the years 1957 to 2009, we analyze voting biases of the participating countries … are to be positively biased in their voting for one another in the Eurovision song contest. On the other hand, for the … second period (i.e. public vote), we find that the cultural similarity of the voting county with the country they are voting …

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Television Advertising in Mayoral Campaigns

Krebs, Timothy; Holian, David - 2020

In this research we investigate the substance and tone of mayoral candidates’ campaign speech as revealed in television advertisements. Our main empirical focus is on the behavior of minority candidates, who for strategic reasons are expected to deracialize their campaigns in an effort to...

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White Sale : Judicial Campaigning in the Post-Republican Party of Minnesota v. White Era

McKenzie, Mark J.; Arbour, Brian K. - 2009

Many have worried about recent changes in judicial campaigns in terms of increased costs and acrimonious rhetoric. Some scholars have concerns that the Supreme Court’s Republican Party of Minnesota v. White further changed the nature of judicial campaigns, allowing candidates to take positions...

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Prejudice, Black Threat and the Racist Voter in the 2008 Presidential Election

Bafumi, Joseph; Herron, Michael - 2014

We show evidence of prejudiced voting in the 2008 presidential election. We then go deeper to test if black threat …

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Bribes and Ballots : The Impact of Corruption on Voter Turnout in 75 Democracies

Stockemer, Daniel - 2009

While officials involved in graft, bribery, extortion, nepotism, or patronage typically like to keep their deeds private, the fact that corruption can have serious effects in democracies is no secret. Numerous scholars have brought into the limelight the impact of corruption on a range of...

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A Simulation Analysis of the Effect of Party Identification on Finnish Parties' Optimal Positions

Papageorgiou, Achillefs - 2010

’ decisions are assumed to be deterministic. To show the effect of party identification under deterministic voting two different … types of simulations are conducted; the partisan type, where the partisans’ voting behaviour depends on their distance from … the party and on a degree of partisan attachment, and the apartisan type where voting behaviour depends solely on policy …

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