In North Carolina, It's Not Election Day—It's Election Month: An Analysis of the 2008 Election

Malaysia’s 2008 General Election

Leading theories of transitions from single-party dominant systems begin with economic crisis, the party’s loss of patronage resources, and elite-level defections. The multiparty elections that are then held exert no independent effect, but instead register neutrally the party’s decline and the democratization of politics. This paper, however, shifts attention from the dominant party to citizen...

Vote production functions: An analysis of campaign expenditures and election outcomes in North Carolina

This study analyzes the effects of campaign expenditures on electoral outcomes in North Carolina using data from the 1998 and 2000 state House and Senate elections. Two hypothetical vote-production models are proposed and tested. Results reveal a statistically significant relationship between expenditure levels and vote totals. The appropriate vote production model and an estimate of the price ...

Racial Bias in the 2008 Presidential Election

We survey the evidence on whether racial attitudes negatively affected Barack Obama’s vote share in the 2008 presidential election. There is some evidence pointing toward this possibility. First, the increase in the Democratic vote share in the presidential election between 2004 and 2008 was relatively smaller in Appalachia and some Southern states. Second, there was a significantly smaller 200...

Election Reform After the 2000 Election

A Snapshot of the 2008 Election

We present maps of the 2008 presidential voting bases on ethnicity, income, and state, and discuss the challenges involved in statistical modeling and the graphical presentation of the results