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Parsimonious data: How a single Facebook like predicts voting behavior in multiparty systems. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 This study shows how liking politicians' public Facebook posts can be used as an accurate measure for predicting present-day voter intention in a multiparty system.
Jakob Bæk Kristensen +5 more
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Time scales in the dynamics of political opinions and the voter model
New Journal of PhysicsOpinions in human societies are measured by political polls on time scales of months to years. Such opinion polls do not resolve the effects of individual interactions but constitute a stochastic process. Voter models with zealots (individuals who do not
Philipp G Meyer, Ralf Metzler
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Emotional Responses to Top Politicians in a General Election
Nordicom Review, 2007 Voting behaviour has been studied as a specific form of individual behaviour and has primarily been seen as the result of reflection and deliberation on behalf of the individual.
Hansen Flemming +2 more
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A study of Electronic Media on the Voting Behaviour of Indian Voters
, 2023 AbstractIn recent years, electronic media, including television, social media and online platforms, have gained immense popularity and influence in shaping public opinion and political discourse. With its large and diverse electorate, India provides an exciting context to explore the impact of electronic media on voting behaviour.
Mishra, Shweta, Yadav, Uma
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Local media, local candidates and preference formation
Political Research ExchangeThis study explores the role of local media consumption in shaping voter preferences for local candidates in electoral contexts. Drawing on the British Election Study (BES) data from the 2017 UK General Election, the paper examines how local media ...
Javier Sajuria, Sofia Collignon
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Does Voting History Matter? Analysing Persistence in Turnout [PDF]
Individuals who vote in one election are also more likely to vote in the next. Modelling the causal relationship between past and current voting decisions however is intrinsically difficult, as this positive association can exist due to habit formation ...
Orla Doyle, Kevin Denny
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Does motor voter work? Evidence from state-level data [PDF]
Using time-series cross-section data on state-level registration and turnout, "motor voter" registration programs mandated by the National Voter Registration Act are found to be effective in enhancing voter participation in the states that have already ...
Knack, Stephen
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Social information and bandwagon behaviour in voting: an economic experiment [PDF]
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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Did states' motor voter programs help the Democrats? [PDF]
The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) of 1993 required all states to establish "motor voter," mail-in and agency registration procedures prior to the 1996 Presidential election. Using state-level data for the 1976-94 period on party registration, we
Knack, Stephen, White, James
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Does median voter income matter? The effects of inequality and turnout on government spending [PDF]
, 2013 This article examines the relationship between economic inequality, electoral turnout and redistributive spending. I use the Current Population Survey to create direct measures of the income of the median voter to investigate its effect on spending and ...
Barnes, Lucy
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