In this paper, a new voting system model is introduced as a linear transformation model. The size of compartmental populations in each political group corresponding to every voted subject, the population weights, the weighted votes policy against each political group, the “Yes” and “No” rates, the “No” rejection policy and the “Yes” increase policy are the inputs / outputs of the introduced lin...

The contemporary world has witnessed technological advances, such as Online Social Networks (OSN), whose influence in almost every action of the human being is remarkable. Among the human activities most significantly impacted by OSNs are: entertainment, human relationships, education, and political activities, including those related to electoral campaigns and electoral preferences prediction....

Scholars of political campaigns have focused on traditional mobilization efforts where a political party or interest group targets core supporters and undecided independents. Yet campaigns are increasingly targeting persuadable members of the opposition. If people are merely responding to the message, then nontraditional strategies could be effective despite the fact that it is delivered by an ...

In this paper I apply the work of Abrams and Iossifov (2006) to monetary policy in Canada to see if same political party affiliation is needed to produce evidence of political opportunism. After modifying their analysis to maintain consistency in the time series dimensions of their variables for Canada, I find both an error correction model and a Taylor rule reformulation of their test generate...

This is a report, where preliminary work regarding the topic of voting intention inference from Social Media – such as Twitter – is presented. Our case study is the UK 2010 General Election and we are focusing on predicting the percentages of voting intention polls (conducted by YouGov) for the three major political parties – Conservatives, Labours and Liberal Democrats – during a 5-month perio...

In the 2008 U.S. presidential election, social network sites such as Facebook allowed users to share their political beliefs, support specific candidates, and interact with others on political issues. But do political activities on Facebook affect political participation among young voters, a group traditionally perceived as apathetic in regard to civic engagement? Or do these activities repres...

1. Introduction: This study examines the correlation between the Southern Vowel Shift in the Middle Tennessee area and different social characteristics, such as education level, age, and political views. To this end, field recordings were conducted, and the results were analyzed in terms of age, gender, occupation, education, political views, and other factors. The hypothesis is that people who...