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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 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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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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Political Behavior in the EU Multi-Level System
Politics and Governance, 2020 Together with its further widening and deepening, the character of the EU has changed fundamentally during the last two decades. Acknowledging this development, the politics-dimension has become visibly more relevant in research on the EU. This “politics
Daniela Braun +2 more
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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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The Effect of Political Marketing Mix on Voters Intention Based on Demographic Characteristic; Case Study: 10th Parliament Election [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat, 2018 In recent years a lot of parties and candidates competing in this arena have turned to using marketing techniques. That is why such terms as personal marketing, political marketing and campaigns marketing are used in the meantime.
Maryam Karbasforoshha +2 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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Regjeringsslitasje, startvansker og svingninger i politikken
Norsk Statsvitenskapelig Tidsskrift, 2023 Regjeringspartier mister ofte velgere ved valg. Denne regjeringsslitasjen er et forholdsvis langsiktig fenomen som har hatt en tendens til å øke over tid. I artikkelen diskuteres et mer kortsiktig fenomen, dvs.
Hilmar Rommetvedt
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 In this paper we investigate whether or not recent initiatives taken by governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of Subjective Well Being (SWB) to inform policy makers go in the same direction as citizens expectations on what policy makers should do. We test retrospective voting hypotheses by using standard measures of SWB
Federica Liberini +2 more
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