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Is the Voter Model a Model for Voters? [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2014 The voter model has been studied extensively as a paradigmatic opinion dynamics' model. However, its ability for modeling real opinion dynamics has not been addressed. We introduce a noisy voter model (accounting for social influence) with agents' recurrent mobility (as a proxy for social context), where the spatial and population diversity are taken ...
Fernández-Gracia, Juan +4 more
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Mainstream Voters, Non-Voters and Populist Voters: What Sets Them Apart? [PDF]
Political Studies, 2021 Three different constituencies are becoming increasingly common across Western European electorates: mainstream voters, non-voters and populist voters. Despite their distinct behaviours in electoral politics, we have limited empirical knowledge about the characteristics that distinguish these three groups, given the typical underrepresentation of non ...
Cédric M Koch +2 more
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The role of elections in the political life of an independent state
Хабаршы. Заң сериясы, 2022 Following the Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan claims to be a democratic state; the people of Kazakhstan are the only source of state power; the people exercise state power directly and through their representatives.
A. Zh. Zharbolova +4 more
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The voter model with anti-voter bonds☆ [PDF]
Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (B) Probability and Statistics, 2005 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Gantert, Nina +2 more
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Trakya University Journal of Social Sciences, 2023 One of the most important dimensions of Turkey's social history is the development process of democracy. In the process that started with the Tanzimat, a gradual change was witnessed in the structuring of the political power.
Turgay Akkuş
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Are knowledgeable voters better voters? [PDF]
Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2022 It is widely believed that democracies require knowledgeable citizens to function well. But the most politically knowledgeable individuals tend to be the most partisan and the strength of partisan identity tends to corrupt political thinking. This creates a conundrum.
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American Economic Review, 2015 In a symmetric information voting model, an individual (politician) can influence voters' choices by strategically designing a policy experiment (public signal). We characterize the politician's optimal experiment. With a nonunanimous voting rule, she exploits voters' heterogeneity by designing an experiment with realizations targeting different ...
Ricardo Alonso, Odilon Câmara
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Investigating the Mix Effect of Political Marketing and Brand Equity of Political Parties on Voter Commitment and Loyalty in Iran; A Study of Eligible Citizens Voting in Tehran [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2021 The purpose of this study is to investigate and determine the effect of political marketing mix and brand equity of political parties on voter commitment and loyalty in Iran. The statistical population of this study is eligible citizens in Tehran in 1396.
Bagher Asgarnezhad Nouri +3 more
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European Journal of Political Economy, 2019 We test whether a voter’s decision to cast a vote depends on its probability of affecting the election outcome. Using exogenous variation arising at population cutoffs determining council sizes in Finnish municipal elections, we show that larger council size increases both pivotal probabilities and turnout.
Janne Tukiainen, Teemu Lyytikäinen
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