Most of the studies regarding political campaigns focus heavily on strategy, evaluation, and communication by candidate during campaign. However, study anti-corruption programs campaigned candidates is still under research. This examines proposed for governor vice Java Island 2017-2018 regional election. Further, this employed a qualitative method using content analysis. The three objectives ar...

This paper investigates the role of campaign advertising and the opportunity of legal restrictions on it. An electoral race is modeled as a signalling game with three classes of players: many voters, two candidates, and one interest group. The group has non-verifiable insider information on the candidates’ quality and, on the basis of this information, offers a contribution to each candidate in...

Candidates for U.S. presidential elections are determined through sequential elections in single states, the primaries. We develop a model in which candidates can influence their winning probability in electoral districts by spending money on campaigning. The equilibrium replicates several stylized facts very well: Campaigning is very intensive in the first district. The outcome of the first el...

The article provides an analysis of the starting positions and electoral prospects political parties on eve elections to State Duma Russian Federation 8th Convocation, which becomes especially relevant in context emergence new forces among participants election campaign. author investigated current trends development parliamentary non-parliamentary parties, relying methods observation, analysis...

Political parties use electoral clientelism to mobilise their core voters and persuade swing support them. Earlier research shows that occurs more often in highly competitive elections. Against these conclusions, this article argues a large margin of victory can drive the irrespective type constituency. The analysis uses county-level data from 2020 election campaign Romania is used those consti...

background: molecular epidemiology of measles virus (mv) is important, not only to measure the success of measles vaccination programs but also to monitor the circulation and elimination of the virus worldwide. in this study, we compared mv obtained from patients before the 2003 mass vaccination mr campaign and viruses detected after 2003 until 2008 in iran. methods: the nucleoprotein (n) gene ...

Electoral systems are uniquely distributive political institutions that shape political outcomes, yet are themselves endogenously shaped outcomes of political choices. In Poland, party system development has involved not only parties adapting to electoral institutions in each election, but also parties modifying these institutions prior to every election. We model electoral system change as dri...

For statistical as well as political reasons combined measures of electoral disproportionality and electoral thresholds are necessary in order to adequately summarize electoral institutions. With few exceptions, none of these quantities can be reliably inferred directly from the provisions of the electoral law, thus impairing “large scale” comparative studies. Through the use of sampling based ...