Manipulated Voters in Competitive Election Campaigns

Election Campaigns on the Internet: How are Voters Affected?

This article investigates whether political use of the Internet affects users politically. Using a combination of logand survey data from a study of Internet use during the Danish 2007 parliamentary election, a number of hypotheses are tested. The investigation finds that 30% of the survey respondents say they are influenced politically by their Internet use. However, they are only modestly inf...

What Voters Do: Information Search during Election Campaigns

Second-digit Tests for Voters’ Election Strategies and Election Fraud∗

The second significant digits of precinct-level (or polling station-level) vote counts follow regular patterns when voters are acting strategically and when there are partisan imbalances of voters in districts (when there is a gerrymander). The digits often follow distinctive patterns when vote counts are affected by coercion. The patterns are illustrated by a simulation exercise that generates...

Campaigns for lazy voters: truncated ballots

We study elections in which voters may submit partial ballots consisting of truncated lists: each voter ranks some of her top candidates (and possibly some of her bottom candidates) and is indifferent among the remaining ones. Holding elections with such votes requires adapting classical voting rules (which expect complete rankings as input) and these adaptations create various opportunities fo...

Election campaigns , agenda setting and

Framing effects and bounded rationality imply that election campaigns may be an important determinant of election outcomes. This paper uses a two-party setting and simple game theoretic models to analyse the strategic interaction between the parties’ campaign decisions. Alternations of power emerge naturally, even if both electoral preferences and party positions