Abstract Almost a decade after the 2011 post-electoral crisis, Côte d’Ivoire once again held elections marred by widespread violence. The third-term crisis revolved around President Alassane Ouattara’s controversial bid and left at least 83 people dead 633 injured. This briefing draws on new electoral violence dataset field research to unpack patterns of during disentangles disruptive related o...

This paper analyzes the impact of municipal political and sociodemographic factors on female representation in 2020 elections. Hypotheses are derived from theories about influences socioeconomic conditions, electoral competition district size women's performance proportional Four dependent variables were analyzed: proportion candidates, campaign funding, percentage votes seats won by councilors...

Party finance allows elucidating parties’ behaviour in differing political and institutional contexts, yet only a few studies investigate expenditure patterns. Given that campaign activities are central for parties to fulfil their core functions representative democracy, this study seeks explain why invest electoral campaigns different degrees. We argue high party fragmentation reinforces focus...

The growing diffusion of social media raises the possibility to delve into the web to explore and track the political preferences of citizens. Monitoring social media during an electoral campaign can become therefore a useful complement of traditional off-line polls. Some scholars, however, go even further than that, claiming that by analyzing social media we can produce a reliable forecast of ...

We develop a model of electoral competition in which two purely opportunistic candidates select their policy position and invest in the quality of their platform. Policy positions are observed and, during the electoral campaign, the press reveals some information about quality. We demonstrate that when information is imperfect and quality endogenous, the Black-Downs median voter theorem fails t...

The Internet is taking on an increasingly major role in political marketing and branding strategies. This is because of the use that the public itself is making of the Internet when taking part in the decisions made by their representatives and in the events of the environment they live in. These digital citizens have found in the Internet, particularly blogs, a new way of forming relationships...

We present a structural model of political advertising in equilibrium. Candidates choose advertising across media markets in order to maximize the probability of winning the national election. The voter model takes the form of an aggregate random coefficients discrete choice model in which advertising affects a voter’s incentive to vote for either candidate or not to vote at all. We estimate th...

This paper develops a model of campaign contributions and electoral competition. Contributors have separable preferences over policy and the electoral success of the candidate they support, as in influence buying. Policy preferences are single peaked over a single policy dimension. A candidate’s chances of victory are increasing in the relative size of her war chest. In equilibrium, potential c...

According to the most recent UN data, 20.9 percent of Indian children younger than five are too short for their age (stunted), and 17.3 thin height (wasted). [...]despite a supine election commission, widespread fear-mongering about illegal immigration from Bangladesh, highly skilled state-run social-media campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed dislodge inc...

The general elections held in 2019 gave Vox enough votes to enter the Spanish Parliament as third most popular political party. growing role of this radical right-wing party has revealed a complex relationship with media. objective study is characterise between and media by analysing party's electoral discourse using quantitative techniques – posts made on Facebook Twitter (n = 224) qualitative...