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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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Managing Electoral Behaviour. A Study on the Perception of Resita Voters [PDF]
In Romania, the management of an election campaign is viewed with much reluctance, both by politicians and by an electorate who is afraid of manipulation and is about to be oversaturated by commercial advertising, on the one hand, and political ...
Gabriel Dinu, Loredana Dinu
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Combinatorial Voter Control in Elections [PDF]
Voter control problems model situations such as an external agent trying to affect the result of an election by adding voters, for example by convincing some voters to vote who would otherwise not attend the election.
C. Boutilier +14 more
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Background: Political endorsement remains one of the global strategies that features visibly during electioneering campaigns. Such endorsements are usually communicated to the electorate through the media.
Celestina Ongwayozi Audu
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The Personalization of Politics in Anglo-American Democracies
In American politics, few argue with the idea that leaders matter: in the 2020 American election, the media closely tracked the performance and activities of Joe Biden and Donald Trump, for example, suggesting to us that who they are matters.
Amanda Bittner
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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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Political cycles' influence on inflation and unemployment [PDF]
The aim of the research is to show the relationship between political parties and voters and its impact on economic situation in the pre and post-election period.
Rakić Biljana +2 more
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Sociodemografic and psychological characteristics of voters for SNSD and SDP BiH: Two faces of social democracy in Bosnia & Herzegovina [PDF]
There are two social democratic parties in Bosnia Herzegovina: SNSD and SDP BiH. These two parties differ regarding their origin and their political activity in Bosnia Herzegovina.
Puhalo Srđan
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Building on literature from political science and psychology, I argue that political attention on animals and animal-friendly political candidates cause voter backlash.
Sparsha Saha
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