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We present a model of influence over collective decisions made through voting. We show how an outside party offering incentives to a committee can manipulate the committee's decisions at no cost and induce inefficient outcomes. A key condition is that the outsider be able to reward decisive votes differently.
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Empirical models of retrospective voting primarily employ standard monetary and financial indicators to proxy for voters’ utility and to explain voters’ behavior. We show that subjective well-being explains variation in voting intention that goes beyond what is captured by these monetary and financial indicators.
Federica Liberini +2 more
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Social Media as Mobilizer and Demobilizer: Evidence From Taiwan
This study examines the effect of social media use on voter turnout. Given that different social media platforms provide different types of content and people use different social media platforms for different purposes, this study argues that there exist
Ching-Hsing Wang, Chia-hung Tsai
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The e-voting system which developed using two central facilities protokol consist of three component that is voting machine as client for interaction with voter, central legitimization agency (CLA) as server voter authentication, and central ...
Muhammad Ilyas Sikki +2 more
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On Saturday, 18 May 2019, the incumbent Liberal–National Coalition parties surprised most observers by winning a majority of seats in the House of Representatives. Although the win was narrow—the conservative parties won 77 seats in the 151-seat chamber—this gave them a majority in the lower house of the national parliament.
Ratcliff, Shaun +2 more
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Polarization, abstention, and the median voter theorem
The median voter theorem has long been the default model of voter behavior and candidate choice. While contemporary work on the distribution of political opinion has emphasized polarization and an increasing gap between the “left” and the “right” in ...
Matthew I. Jones +2 more
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Political Marketing in Romania [PDF]
This paper aims to highlight how global political trends have affected the perspective from which individuals perceived their condition within the society, socially acceptable responses and dominant traits associated with the set of statuses and roles ...
Gabriel Dinu, Loredana Dinu
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Voter participation in general elections is an important aspect of a democratic state structure. Participation is determined by the level of public political awareness, if the level of public political awareness is low, voter participation tends to be ...
Dinda Ariska Putri +2 more
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New Perspectives on May’s Theorem and the Median Voter Theorem [PDF]
The paper defines and analyzes May’s Theorem and the Median Voter Theorem from the Public Policy and Public Choice literature and seeks to compare and contrast the use of both.
Richard Fast
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