Despite a pervasive presence in politics, lying has not traditionally played a role in formal models of elections. In this paper we develop a model that allows candidates in the campaign stage to misrepresent their policy intentions if elected to office, and in which the willingness to lie varies across candidates. We find that candidates more willing to lie are favored, but that this advantage...

Competitive political parties and election campaigns are central to the health of democracies. Parties and campaigns require significant resources to be effective. India has developed complex election expenditure, political party funding, and reporting and disclosure laws. We suggest that these laws may have perverse impacts on the electoral system: they tend to drive campaign expenditure under...

The present study is a part of a broader multisited field study on involvement of relatives in Danish psychiatry. The article aims to elucidate which political classifications of normality and mental illness that are displayed in two health political campaigns regarding anti-stigmatization and social inclusion and how such classifications co-constitute the subjectivity of individuals suffering ...

this paper presented a multimodal discourse analysis of some visual images in the political rally discourse of 2011 electioneering campaigns in southwestern nigeria. the data comprised purposively selected political visual artefacts from political rallies across the six southwestern states in nigeria (osun, oyo, ondo, ekiti, ogun, and lagos). the data were analyzed using halliday’s (1985) syste...

Financial contributions allow individuals and entities to support candidates political parties running for election represent their ideas interests. However, if the financing of electoral campaigns is not adequately regulated, it may become an instrument undue influence policy capture. Ensuring transparency in therefore crucial preventing helping governments strengthen enhance public integrity.