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PSW870691_Supplemental_material – Supplemental material for Think Twice before Jumping on the Bandwagon: Clarifying Concepts in Research on the Bandwagon Effect

open access: yes, 2019
Supplemental material, PSW870691_Supplemental_material for Think Twice before Jumping on the Bandwagon: Clarifying Concepts in Research on the Bandwagon Effect by Matthew Barnfield in Political Studies ...
Matthew Barnfield (7355723)
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Can Social Media Engagement Predict Election Results? Bandwagon Effects of Tweets About US Senate Candidates

open access: yesSocial Media + Society
The social media platform X (formerly Twitter) has grown to become an important venue for political discourse, with candidates using it integrally in their election campaigns.
Jinping Wang   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Why?”: C. Wright Mills on the Spirit of the Classical Sociological Tradition and Positivist Versus Critical Sociology

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
wiley   +1 more source

Bandwagon and Snob effects : A Model of observable consumer behavior

open access: yes, 2018
The independence of preferences, normally assumed in consumer theory, is rather problematic when it comes to explaining observable consumer behavior.
Ocampo, Alberto
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Toward an Audience‐Based View of Incumbent Adoption of Potentially Discontinuous Technologies: Evidence From Fintech

open access: yesJournal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We advance an audience‐based view of incumbent adoption of potentially discontinuous technologies. Drawing on theories of discursive institutional processes and categorical legitimacy, we model how incumbents navigate mixed judgments from external groupings in their environment, that is, audiences, when adopting prospective discontinuous ...
Tatjana Schneidmüller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Bots Threaten Democracy by Misrepresenting Actors and Ideas: The Case of the 2022 Swedish Election

open access: yesScandinavian Political Studies, Volume 49, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Online democratic discourse faces threats from diverse forms of information manipulation, including disinformation campaigns and foreign influence operations. Among these, political bots represent a covert and scalable threat, infiltrating online debates, amplifying select viewpoints, and distorting perceptions of public opinion.
Linus Wahlberg
wiley   +1 more source

Survival of technologies: an evolutionary game approach

open access: yesEconomia Aplicada, 2003
This paper models technology adoption as an evolutionary and asymmetric game based on a pairwise contest involving two populations, firms and consumers.
Eleutério F. S. Prado   +2 more
doaj  

ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNS AND VOTER BEHAVIOR: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW AND AGENDA FOR FUTURE RESEARCH

open access: yesAkademik Yaklaşımlar Dergisi
This systematic review applies the Theory-Context-Method (TCM) framework to 46 peer-reviewed studies published from 1996 to 2024, providing an integrated assessment of how theoretical models, empirical settings, and research designs interact across ...
Melih Coşgun
doaj   +1 more source

The New World Order and National Security Dynamics of African States: Case Studies of Cameroon and Mali

open access: yesWorld Affairs, Volume 189, Issue 4, Winter 2026.
ABSTRACT The move from unipolarity to a fluid and contested multipolar world order has significantly changed the way African nations form national security policy due to changes in the nature of the strategic environment of those states. Much of the literature has focused on how the actions of major world powers ‐ the United States, China and Russia ...
Chick Edmond   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social information and bandwagon behaviour in voting: an economic experiment [PDF]

open access: yes
We present an economic experiment on the impact of social information on voter behaviour and find strong support for bandwagon behaviour in voting decisions. In total, 418 subjects participated in the experiment.
Henrik Egbert, Ivo Bischoff
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