There is growing interest worldwide concerning new communication technologies and the electoral process. Studies of online elections have yielded a sizeable body of knowledge on the strategies of electoral actors in an increasing range of countries. Although in the US data are routinely gathered regarding citizens’ use of the Internet as a source of electoral information, limited cross-sectiona...

The conventional wisdom in political science is that legislators’ electioneering practices are closely linked to the electoral systems in which they compete.1 Since electoral concerns are argued to shape legislators’ representation and policy decisions, understanding how electoral incentives differ across electoral systems is useful for explaining cross-national differences representation and p...

We still know remarkably little about the voting behavior of immigrant populations, and in particular, children immigrants – who grow up same society as their contemporaries, but may be subject to different patterns socialization. This article uses verified Swedish municipal elections offer at least two new perspectives on these questions. First, we are able separate out impacts family socializ...

Authenticity is a popular buzz word in electoral politics, as electoral candidates and politicians are expected to be authentic in their public interactions. Since 2008, social media has become an integral part of elections in the US, and continues to gain importance in electoral campaigns around the world as social media offers electoral candidates a new medium for communicating with their con...

In this paper we suggest a generic re-engineering methodology for the organized redesign of the electoral process to an e-electoral process. Based on the hypothesis that the electoral process has been through a “silent” re-engineering phase, we present the process re-engineering concepts which can be used to depict the redesign of the electoral process to an e-electoral process through the use ...

Present research on minor party performance consists largely of singlecountry studies or pooled studies including a raft of widely varying electoral systems. This study examines the topic from a cross-national perspective, but is limited to democratic polities with single-member districts and first-past-the-post rules. An original dataset is compiled including 217 elections drawn from 37 countr...

OBJECTIVES To explore the prevalence of attitudes and beliefs about back pain in New Zealand and compare certain beliefs based on back pain history or health professional exposure. DESIGN Population-based cross-sectional survey. SETTING Postal survey. PARTICIPANTS New Zealand residents and citizens aged 18 years and above. 1000 participants were randomly selected from the New Zealand Elec...

This paper presents an experimental study of the effects of polls on voters’ welfare. The analysis shows that polls have a different effect on closely divided and lopsided divided electorates. The data show that in closely divided electorates (and only for these electorates) the provision of information on the voters’ distribution of preferences significantly raises the participation of subject...

Abstract Political participation is a mainstay of political behavior research. One the main dilemmas many researchers face pertains to number dimensions participation, i.e. whether we should model as unidimensional or multidimensional latent construct. Over years, scholars usually have favored solution with more than one dimension and they backed claim multiple empirical tests. In this paper, I...

Abstract Increasingly many citizens residing abroad maintain connections to their country of origin and follow its national elections. Considering that this group constitutes a growing share the electorate, it is essential better understand factors motivate electoral participation. In study, we explore role economic, social cultural ties in unified analysis turnout among Finnish abroad. We rely...