This study presents evidence for the mediation effect of political knowledge through political self-efficacy (i.e. internal political efficacy) in the prediction of political participation. It employs an action theoretic approach-by and large grounded on the Theory of Planned Behaviour-and uses data from the German Longitudinal Election Study to examine whether political knowledge has distinct ...

An important aspect of mechanism design in social choice protocols and multiagent systems is to discourage insincere behaviour. Manipulative behaviour has received increased attention since the famous Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem. We examine the computational complexity of manipulation in weighted voting games which are ubiquitous mathematical models used in economics, political science, neuro...

This paper explores the sources of weak party–voting patterns in Irish elections, conceptualising this as split–ticket voting. Ireland provides a context where election results show split–ticket voting is common, but the strategic interpretations of such behaviour that have been very prominent elsewhere are not generally applicable. We employ data from the Irish national election studies to exp...

Although group cohesion studies are rather common elsewhere, the last analyses of the Finnish parliament Eduskunta were published in the 1960s. This article provides, firstly, a fresh group cohesion analysis using the Agreement Index, which is a modified version of the classic Rice index. Secondly, two advanced voting similarity analyses, together with a new easy-to-understand way of illustrati...

In this report we describe our efforts in analysing log files produced by the Estonian i-voting system in the KOV2013, EP2014 and RK2015 elections in combination with other information available, so as to detect attacks against the i-voting system, detect system malfunctions and study voter behaviour.

This paper investigates the applicability of knowledge domain mapping for analyzing political science data. Utilizing metaphorical-space models grounded on political science theory, and applying sound cartographic visualization techniques, we demonstrate the construction and analysis of knowledge domain maps for exploring voting behaviour in Switzerland. We digitally transformed the results of ...

It is often argued in the e-voting community that in the presence of write-in candidates, forced abstention attacks are always possible. Therefore, write-in candidates are often excluded in existing definitions of coercion-resistance arguing that those definitions cannot be achieved by write-in supporting schemes. This is only true if the tally is made public directly. Coercionresistance may we...

In this paper we analyse elections when voters underestimate the correlation between their information sources (“correlation neglect”). We find that this cognitive bias can improve political outcomes. We show that the extreme beliefs which result from correlation neglect induce some voters to base their vote on information rather than on political preferences. We characterise conditions on the ...

Online voting networks, the ones where users can give a positive or negative evaluation (as friend or foe respectively) to their peers, have caught the eye of the Data Mining community. Researchers have come up with some ideas on how to predict their behavior based on ad hoc features, mainly calculated by aggregation of their local vecinity data. We introduce a novel approach for predicting soc...

Pre-election opinion polls are an increasingly prominent aspect of political campaigns, yet they often vary in terms their results, sources, and where published. Citizens therefore confronted with the proposition which to give more credence than others shaping voting behaviour. This study investigates relationship between subjective determinations poll credibility behaviour polarised context Tu...