The Federal Election Campaign Act and the 1980 Election

Campaign Duration and Election Outcomes

Does campaign duration affect election outcomes? To date, this question has largely evaded political scientists, but it is reasonable to expect systematic links between campaign length and candidate performance in elections. We hypothesize that longer campaigns would help challengers' electoral fortunes, thereby curbing incumbency advantage and potentially boosting competitiveness in elections....

Parties and the Virtual Campaign : The 2005 Election

Introduction By the time of the 2005 general election, most UK parties had been running websites and using online campaign tools for a decade or more. This was the third general election campaign in which the internet, World Wide Web (WWW) and email had played a role, but the first one where the majority of the UK electorate now had access. 1 Whilst the initial hype surrounding the democratisin...

Voting and registration in the election of November 1980.

By Amie Jamieson, Hyon B. Shin, and Jennifer Day The right to vote is arguably one of the most important rights of citizenship in a democratic country, yet a substantial number of U.S. citizens choose not to exercise this right. This report examines the levels of voting and registration in the November 2000 Presidential election, the characteristics of people who reported that they voted or wer...

Moralization and the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election Campaign

People vary in the extent to which they imbue an attitude with moral conviction; however, little is known about what makes an issue transform from a relatively non-moral preference to a moral conviction. In the context of the 2012 U.S. presidential election, we test if affect and beliefs (thoughts about harms and benefits) are antecedents or consequences of participants’ moral conviction about ...

Election Reform After the 2000 Election