Electoral Campaigns in UK Law
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Crowdsourcing Campaigns: A New Dataset for Studying British Parties’ Electoral Communications
Parties’ electoral communications play a central role in British campaigns. Yet, we know little about the nature of the material contained in these communications and how parties’ campaign messages...
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The Instrumental Voter Goes To the Newsagent
This article studies the impact of instrumental voting on information demand and mass media behaviour during electoral campaigns. If voters act instrumentally then i...... ... voting on information demandand mass media behaviour during electoral campaigns. If voters act instru-mentally then information demand should ... ...
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Going public against institutional constraints? Analyzing the online presence intensity of 2014 European Parliament election candidates
Political parties and candidates have not been immune to the changes that the Internet and social media have introduced in electoral campaigns. Yet, as the use of digital media by political elites ...... ... that the Internet and social media have introduced in electoral campaigns. Yet, as the use of digital media ... ...
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The effect of voters’ economic perception, Brexit and campaigns on the evaluation of party leaders over time
When and why do voters change their evaluation of party leaders? Voters’ evaluations of party leaders are an increasingly important determinant of electoral behaviour. Which factors influence these...... ... do voters change their evaluation of party leaders? Voters’ evaluations of party leaders are an increasingly important determinant of electoral behaviour. Which factors influence these evaluations of party leaders? Do voters evaluate party leaders who hold the office of prime minister ... ...
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Do Party Manifestos Matter in Policy-Making? Capacities, Incentives and Outcomes of Electoral Programmes in France
A key factor in modern democracies’ legitimisation is the extent to which policies submitted for public approval before an election translate into material outcomes once a political party has won p...... ... campaigns and on governing parties’ incentives to implement electoral promises. Data from French Agendas Project datasets is used to compare the ... ...
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Productivity-based retrospective voting: Legislative productivity and voting in the 2019 European Parliament elections
Are European Parliament (EP) elections used to pass judgement on the legislative behaviour of parties serving in the EP? Do Europeans give a bonus in EP elections to political parties whose members...... ... legislative behaviour data, as well as with data on European electoral systems. The evidence points to productivity-based retrospective voting ... candidates to promote past legislative records in electoral campaigns, and particularly so for voters that paid attention to the EP campaign in ... ...
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Blurred lines between electoral and parliamentary representation: The use of constituency staff among Members of the European Parliament
Parliamentarians receive public funding to employ local staff in the constituency. Local staff help members of parliament to execute their representative duties, but can also become an electoral as...... ... MEPs’contacts with citizens throughlocal staff potentially means that European public money is used to fund EP incumbents’electoral campaigns. We discuss the implications of our findings for the democratic func-tioning of the European multi-level system.Corresponding author:Andreja Pegan, ... ...
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Blurred lines between electoral and parliamentary representation: The use of constituency staff among Members of the European Parliament
Parliamentarians receive public funding to employ local staff in the constituency. Local staff help members of parliament to execute their representative duties, but can also become an electoral as...... ... MEPs’contacts with citizens throughlocal staff potentially means that European public money is used to fund EP incumbents’electoral campaigns. We discuss the implications of our findings for the democratic func-tioning of the European multi-level system.Corresponding author:Andreja Pegan, ... ...
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Political mobilization and its impact on voter turnout: A survey experiment in Iraq
This article clarifies how political mobilization affects voter turnout in a post-conflict society by analyzing the Iraqi case using survey data. Voter turnout was high in post-war Iraq. However, t...... ... Political mobilization during e lectoral campaigns usually encourages voters to go to polling stations. Notwithstanding, amid ... question, we conducted a survey exp eriment during the 2018 electoral campaign to scrutinize the effects of political mobilization on voters in ... ...
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The populism of fear
In democratic countries, at least in the western hemisphere, there has been a political trend toward appealing to the fear of crime as a popular issue in electoral campaigns, as well as more genera...... ... toward appealing to the fear of crime as a popular issue in electoral" campaigns, as well as more generally as a way of attracting public notice.\xC2" ... ...
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