T new millennium has ushered in leftist governments across Latin america. With the election of fernando Lugo as Paraguay’s president in april 2008, every country in south america except colombia and Peru had elected a left-of-center president during the prior decade. in central america, el salvador, Guatemala, and nicaragua also elected left-leaning presidents, and mexico’s 2006 election saw a ...

In two large samples (combined N 1⁄4 31,045), we found a positive relationship between disgust sensitivity and political conservatism. This relationship held when controlling for a number of demographic variables as well as the ‘‘Big Five’’ personality traits. Disgust sensitivity was also associated with more conservative voting in the 2008 U.S. presidential election. In Study 2, we replicated ...

Emergent self-organizing maps (ESOMs) and k-means clustering are used to cluster counties in each of the states of Florida, Pennsylvania, and Ohio by demographic data from the 2010 United States census. The counties in these clusters are then analyzed for how they voted in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, and political strategies are discussed that target demographically similar geographica...

In this paper, we design and implement a map dashboard that combines spatio-temporal visualization interactive narrative to comprehensively illustrate the 2020 US presidential election. Specifically, our takes campaign rallies major events as clues integrates multi-perspective factors (e.g., spatial spread of COVID-19, social distancing adherence, poll results) for statistical analysis. Compare...

This paper discusses the substance and potential impact of ethnic block voting in two of Ghana's 10 political regions : Ashanti and Volta. Using the Electoral Commission of Ghana' s dataset for five Presidential election results from 1992 to 2008, the paper confirms ethnic block voting in the two regions. The paper views the phenomenon as detrimental to Ghana ' s evolving democracy as it is a p...

Although humans strive to be wise, they often fail to do so when reasoning over issues that have profound personal implications. Here we examine whether psychological distance enhances wise reasoning, attitudes and behavior under such circumstances. Two experiments demonstrate that cueing people to reason about personally meaningful issues (Study 1: Career prospects for the unemployed during an...

Fowler, Baker, and Dawes (2008) recently showed in two independent studies of twins that voter turnout has very high heritability. Here we investigate two specific genes that may contribute to variation in voting behavior. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we show that individuals with a polymorphism of the MAOA gene are significantly more likely to have vote...