Belarus: Political Situation after the Presidential Elections

Political Sophistication and Conditional Strategic Behavior in U.S. Presidential Elections

Previous versions of this paperwere presented at the 2003AnnualMeeting of theMidwest Political ScienceAssociation, Chicago, Illinois and the 2005AnnualMeeting of the SouthernPolitical Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana; I thank Kyle Saunders and Patrick Cotter for their helpful comments at those conferences. I also thank the participants in the Duke University PARISS Seminar (in partic...

The Internet Megascope The Web's Effect on Political Knowledge and Electoral Participation in U.S. Presidential Elections

Analysis of political discourse on twitter in the context of the 2016 US presidential elections

Social media now plays a pivotal role in electoral campaigns. Rapid dissemination of information through platforms such as Twitter has enabled politicians to broadcast their message to a wide audience. In this paper, we investigated the sentiment of tweets by the two main presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, along with almost 2.9 million tweets by Twitter users during the ...

What Are (Semi-)Presidential Elections About?: Government Losses in the 2006 Portuguese Presidential Elections

The Portuguese presidential election of 2006 represented a major upset for the incumbent Socialist Party (PS). In the March 2005 legislative elections, the PS had obtained 46.4 percent of the valid votes allowing it to form, for the first time in the history of this center-left party, a single-party cabinet supported by an absolute majority in parliament. However, less than one year later, the ...

Elections and political risk: New evidence from the 2008 Taiwanese Presidential Election