Measuring the Impact of Local Party Activity on the General Election Vote

1963 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillips Cutright
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Local Party

scholarly journals The Role of NGOs in Political Elections in South Korea: The Case of the Citizens' Alliance for the 2000 General Election

Asian Survey ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 697-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eui Hang Shin
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
General Election ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Civic Organizations ◽  
The Impact

The primary purpose of this study is to investigate the role of civic organizations in political processes in South Korea. More specifically, this article examines the impact of the blacklisting of candidates by the Citizens' Alliance for the 2000 General Election (CAGE) on the outcomes of the National Assembly election of April 13, 2000. I discuss the relationship between the characteristics of political systems and political culture and the emergence of civic organizations. I analyze the effects of CAGE's blacklisting of politicians on the nomination processes of candidates by major political parties. I also discuss the long-term effects of CAGE on the political system.

scholarly journals (Un)Trendy Japan: Twitter bots and the 2017 Japanese general election

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-514
Author(s):  
Jozef Michal Mintal ◽  
Róbert Vancel
Keyword(s):  
User Profile ◽  
General Election ◽  
Ensemble Classification ◽  
Classification Model ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

AbstractSocial networking services (SNSs) can significantly impact public life during important political events. Thus, it comes as no surprise that different political actors try to exploit these online platforms for their benefit. Bots constitute a popular tool on SNSs that appears to be able to shape public opinion and disrupt political processes. However, the role of bots during political events in a non-Western context remains largely under-studied. This article addresses the question of the involvement of Twitter bots during electoral campaigns in Japan. In our study, we collected Twitter data over a fourteen-day period in October 2017 using a set of hashtags related to the 2017 Japanese general election. Our dataset includes 905,215 tweets, 665,400 of which were unique tweets. Using a supervised machine learning approach, we first built a custom ensemble classification model for bot detection based on user profile features, with an area under curve (AUC) for the test set of 0.998. Second, in applying our model, we estimate that the impact of Twitter bots in Japan was minor overall. In comparison with similar studies conducted during elections in the US and the UK, the deployment of Twitter bots involved in the 2017 Japanese general election seems to be significantly lower. Finally, given our results on the level of bots on Twitter during the 2017 Japanese general election, we provide various possible explanations for their underuse within a broader socio-political context.

scholarly journals The Impact of Economic Factors on the 2011 Turkish General Election

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Harun Yüksel ◽  
Abdülkadir Civan
Keyword(s):  
General Election ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals ME, YOU, And US: Constructing political persona on social networks during the 2015 UK General Election.

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany Usher
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
General Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
Political Campaigning ◽  
The Impact

This article offers statistical and discourse analysis of political leaders’ profile pages during the 2015 UK General Election ‘short campaign’ as a means to better understand the construction of political persona on Social Network Sites (SNS). It examines this as a group production and promotional activity that variously used patterns and routines of both traditional and digital media to display leaders as party branded selves.  Performances strived for balance between authority and authenticity, using the political self as a spectacle to direct microelectorates to specific actions.  This study demonstrates how self-storytelling is shaped by the coded conventions or “house rules” of SNS, which are viewed as inescapable institutions for maintaining public visibility.  It examines how linguistic and visual elements, linked to different political ideologies, chimed with Twitter and Facebook users and looks to the impact on political campaigning.

Does Non-Quota Strategy Matter? A Comparative Study on Candidate Selection and Women's Representation at the Local Level in Germany

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Florian Ruf
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Candidate Selection ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Women's Representation ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Explanatory Factors ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Local Party

Abstract The intraparty mechanisms through which parties recruit, motivate, and select their candidates are central explanatory factors for the representation of women. This article analyzes the effects of intraparty factors on women's representation by measuring the impact of (1) parties’ non-quota strategies at the regional level—such as establishing women's sections, mentoring programs, or campaign funding for women—and (2) central party gatekeepers at the local level. Exploiting an original, newly compiled data set consisting of 1,475 electoral lists from the 2014 local council elections in the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, this article shows that parties’ non-quota strategies and central gatekeepers play crucial roles in determining the share of women on local party tickets. This means that who runs for office is, in this case, a question of intraparty dynamics. These dynamics are caused by different mechanisms of non-quota strategies and gender-biased candidate selection combined with interparty effects of local party competition and left-party strength. The almost consistent conditions that the subnational level provides show that the parties’ capacities (or lack thereof) for gendered recruitment is one major explanatory factor and should be tested at least in cross-national comparisons.

scholarly journals Triple Duel: The Impact of Coalition Fragmentation and Three-Corner Fights on the 2018 Malaysian Election

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Ostwald ◽  
Paul Schuler ◽  
Jie Ming Chong
Keyword(s):  
Third Parties ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
General Election ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Party Support ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Opposition Parties

Malaysia's previously hegemonic Barisan Nasional (BN) government was unexpectedly defeated in the 2018 general election despite a fragmented opposition and widespread three-corner fights that theory states should inhibit turnover. Why? We argue that the opposition-split hypothesis rests on three core assumptions: third parties split only the anti-incumbent vote; coalition/party support is relatively uniform across the country; and opposition parties are not “elite splits” in disguise. The Malaysian context challenges all three of these assumptions. Counterfactual election simulations ultimately suggest that the opposition split neither dramatically helped nor hurt the BN. While this does not upend conventional wisdom on opposition coordination, it does demonstrate that the theory manifests only when its assumptions accord with local realities. More substantively, our analysis also provides insights into why the new opposition will likely seek to increase the salience of ethno-religious issues in a bid to recapture electoral ground.

scholarly journals Is all campaigning equally positive? The impact of district level campaigning on voter turnout at the 2010 British general election

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Fisher ◽  
Edward Fieldhouse ◽  
Ron Johnston ◽  
Charles Pattie ◽  
David Cutts
Keyword(s):  
Voter Turnout ◽  
District Level ◽  
General Election ◽  
The Impact
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