Abstract Societally salient issues, like migration, stimulate user engagement with political parties on social media. This engagement, in turn, is associated behavior, such as voting. Nonetheless, few studies so far have investigated the interaction between these factors. We examine how anti-immigration attitudes are In this study, understood following Through online data that were collected Oc...

HE ANALYSIS of voting and elections has undoubtedly become one of the ~ principal areas of investigation for political scientists, especially among those .M primarily concerned with American politics. Quite understandably, much of the research on the subject has tended to focus on individual voting behavior and its relationship to psychological and sociological variables.’ This research has pro...

This paper examines Hispanic voting behavior in the 2004 Presidential election. Our research makes a significant contribution to the literature on Hispanic politics, as this is the first study to apply theories of issue and economic voting to a nationwide sample of Hispanic voters. We demonstrate that, similar to Anglos, issues and ideology were highly influential in the vote choice of Hispanic...

Elections with sequential voting, such as presidential primaries, are widelythought to possess momentum effects, where the choices of early voters influence the behavior of later voters. Momentum may take time to build, and can depend on how candidates perform in each stage relative to expectations. This paper develops a rational theory of behavior in sequential elections that accounts for thes...

In this paper we address the following questions: (i) To what extent is the hypothesis that voters vote sincerely testable or falsifiable? And (ii) in environments where the hypothesis is falsifiable, to what extent is the observed behavior of voters consistent with sincere voting? We show that using data only on how individuals vote in a single election, the hypothesis that voters vote sincere...

Hot temperatures lead to heightened arousal. According to excitation transfer theory, arousal can increase both antisocial and prosocial behavior, depending on the context. Although many studies have shown that hot temperatures can increase antisocial behavior, very few studies have investigated the relationship between temperature and prosocial behavior. One important prosocial behavior is vot...

There is more to strategic voting than simply avoiding wasting one’s vote if one is liberated from the corset of studying voting behavior in plurality systems. Mixed electoral systems provide different voters with diverse incentives to cast a strategic vote.They not only determine the degree of strategic voting, but also the kind of strategies voters employ. Strategic voters employ either a was...

Approval Voting is analyzed in a context of large elections with strategic voters, the Myerson’s Large Poisson Games. Three examples show that this voting rule does not always correctly aggregate preferences. The first one shows that a candidate ranked first by more than half of the voters need not be the Winner of the election under Approval voting. In the second one, we show that it can be th...

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committees have a significant influence on patterns of clinical practice worldwide. Recent guidance to the committees by the FDA has focused on attempting to eliminate sources of bias due to committee voting procedures. Nevertheless, major sources of social influence have not been addressed. We analyzed transcripts of Circulatory Systems Devices Panel...