Word Count: 149 Article Word Count: 2175 Abstract Given the persistence of public doubts about the integrity of ballot secrecy, which depress turnout, two prior experiments have shown precise evidence that both official governmental and unofficial mobilization campaigns providing assurances about ballot secrecy increases turnout among recently registered nonvoters. To assess whether these findi...

This paper presents a computational method, AnaDiP-2011, based on natural language processing (NLP) techniques for the interpretation of the political discourse in the print media. The application considers the 2009 presidential campaign in Romania. The concept behind this method is that the manner in which individuals speak and write, with the aim to deliver a certain image to the public, is a...

The automated comparison of points of view between two politicians is a very challenging task, due not only to the lack of annotated resources, but also to the different dimensions participating to the definition of agreement and disagreement. In order to shed light on this complex task, we first carry out a pilot study to manually annotate the components involved in detecting agreement and dis...

Most research on mayoral leadership focuses how leaders view and exercise power when in office. In contrast, we study ‘prefigurative leadership’ during a municipal campaign, i.e. the way which putative construct, stage consolidate style that foreshadows they will if get elected. We rely of 2020 French election Bordeaux, characterized by political alternation, succession to strong leader, electo...

Over the past decade, digital and mobile media have significantly changed the system of political communication in Brazil. An increasing number of Brazilian candidates have begun to use websites and social networking applications as an integral part of their overall campaign efforts. To explore how these "new" media tools are used at all levels of campaigns for national office, we built an orig...

nationalism fi rst, including Republican candidate for the US presidency, Donald Trump, and the leader of the French Front National (FN), Marine Le Pen. Like the Leave campaign in the UK, both are offering simplistic pseudosolutions to the complex problems of today’s world, thus offering comfort to voters who may feel left behind by the rapid changes of modern times. If Trump were to be elected...

We provide a stochastic electoral model of the US Presidential election where candidates take differences across states into account when developing their policy platforms and advertising campaigns. Candidates understand the political and economic differences that exist across states and voters care about candidates’ policies relative to their ideals, about the frequency of candidates’ advertis...

Abstract Although strategic voting is common in the first tier of German electoral system, large-scale campaigns designed to foster have rarely been observed Germany. This changed General Election 2021 when left-wing organization Campact ran several districts supporting most promising candidate order impede election a more right-wing candidate. Especially, Campact’s campaign favor SPD Frank Ull...

Abstract In recent election campaigns in Albania, whether general or local, party leaders have become increasingly important. There is a dominance of political communication an electoral campaign. Increasingly the media focus on leading individuals, neglecting parties and collective identities. Political now serve as shortcut to informing electorate. But why does this happen? Is feature Albania...

How do parties decide when to campaign on valence issues given high degrees of uncertainty? Although past studies have provided evidence transnational emulation parties' position-taking strategies, these findings not directly apply saliency strategies. Moreover, the exact diffusion mechanism remains largely elusive. Based issue literature, this study develops novel theoretical propositions and ...