We analyze the relation between voters’ issue preferences, the candidates’ policy positions and voter behavior, using a simple spatial model of voter preferences. The size of policy differences between the candidates affects how important the voters’ preferred policy positions are for their vote choices. Conversely, how vote choices depend on issue preferences provides information about the dir...

This article focuses on the traditional notions of democracy and governance in the context of the recent shock first-round election results in France. The results prima facie suggest voter apathy and disengagement from the democratic process. However, the spontaneous street protests confirm that voters are not apathetic about democracy, rather they are dissatisfied with the current model of gov...

Would holding elections by mail increase voter turnout? Many electoral reform advocates predict that mail ballot elections will boost participation, basing their prediction on the high turnout rate among absentee voters and on the rise in voter turnout after Oregon switched to voting by mail. However, selection problems inherent to studies of absentee voters and Oregon give us important reasons...

Post-Soviet African democratization has introduced elections into contexts that often lack restraints upon the behavior of candidates, resulting in the emergence of voter intimidation, vote-buying, and ballot fraud. We propose a model of electoral competition where, although some voters oppose violence, it is effective in intimidating swing voters. We show that in equilibrium a weak challenger ...

un barrage contre le pacifique (1950), l’amant  (1984) et l’amant de la chine du nord (1991) figurent comme les  romans autobiographiques  les plus significatifs de marguerite duras. ces récits suivant une approche narratologique mettent en place un certain nombre de procédés en vue de confondre les voix narratives : l’histoire de chaque individu y est saisie à travers son discours, l’énonciati...

au cours de l’apprentissage d'une langue étrangère, l’une des stratégies pouvant aider l’apprenant à stabiliser les bases de sa langue est la stratégie d’autogestion. cette stratégie est classée parmi les stratégies métacognitives. grâce à ces dernières, l’apprenant peut procéder à contrôler et à organiser ses objectifs et ses activités. la stratégie d’autogestion, comme son nom l’indique, con...

Proposals for a secure voting technology can involve new mechanisms or procedures designed to provide greater ballot secrecy or verifiability. These mechanisms may be justified on the technical level, but researchers and voting officials must also consider how voters will understand these technical details, and how understanding may affect interaction with the voting systems. In the context of ...

This paper explores the causal influence of access to Western television programming on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic in which only geography and topography determined the allocation of individuals to treatment and control groups. Focusing on both the shares of extremist parties and voter turnout, we fin...

PRET A Rapporter (PRETAR) was developed to explicitly structure usercentered evaluation studies to ensure all necessary elements are individually and independently considered. Its creators see its benefit as twofold: for study design and in retrospective evaluations. We evaluate PRETAR’s potential by applying it retrospectively to one of our eHealth field studies in which we investigated the de...

The instrumental incentives of sellsh voters to become politically informed seem to be diluted by low voter probabilities of being pivotal. This incentive dilution does not apply, however, to visible voter eeorts made before candidates nalize their policy positions. Also, while free-riding can dilute incentives within large groups, this dilution can be overwhelmed by scale economies in group in...