We still know remarkably little about the voting behavior of immigrant populations, and in particular, children immigrants – who grow up same society as their contemporaries, but may be subject to different patterns socialization. This article uses verified Swedish municipal elections offer at least two new perspectives on these questions. First, we are able separate out impacts family socializ...

Do print media significantly impact political attitudes and party identification? To examine this question, we draw on a rare quasi-natural experiment that occurred when The Sun, a right-leaning UK tabloid, shifted its support to the Labour party in 1997 and back to the Conservative party in 2010. We compared changes in party identification and political attitudes among Sun readers with non-rea...

The empirical evidence on voting behavior suggests that the individuals’ choice of the vote is explained, among other things, by policy issues and the voters’ partisan preferences over the party that rules the government. The evidence also indicates that the voters’ partisan preferences are the best predictor of the choice of the vote (Republican and Democratic voters tend to vote, respectively...

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Election data represent a precious source of information to study human behavior at a large scale. In proportional elections with open lists, the number of votes received by a candidate, rescaled by the average performance of all competitors in the same party list, has the same distribution regardless of the country and the year of the election. Here we provide the first thorough assessment of ...

Mike Chrzanowski [email protected] Daniel Levick [email protected] December 14, 2012 Background: An increasing amount of research has emerged in the past few years using social media to either predict the outcomes of elections or, in the case of the United States, to classify users as Democrat or Republican. While predictions based on social media are not representative of the voting popul...

The literature on vote-buying assumes a complete transaction of cash for votes. While there is ample evidence that candidates do target certain voters with cash handouts, it is unclear whether these actually result in higher turnout and voteshares for the distributing party. In this paper we argue that in settings with low level of monitoring by political parties, such as many African countries...

Basic Assumptions. Conformity, as I use it here, is the situation when people are trying to act or look like one another. One sees this conformity everyday, in many areas of social life -in fashions, the names we give our children, the sports we play, the causes we support, and so on. Of course, there are always individuals who go against the grain and adopt less conformist or non-conforming be...

Doodle is a simple and popular online system for scheduling events. It is an implementation of the approval voting mechanism, where candidates are the time slots and each responder approves a subset of the slots. We analyze all the Doodle polls created in the US from JulySeptember 2011 (over 340,000 polls), consisting of both hidden polls (where you cannot see other people’s votes) and open pol...

We consider the problem of costly voting in a game-theoretic framework where agents are altruistic. We show that if, as usual, agents’types are assumed to be independently and identically distributed, the classical theorem of Thomas R. Palfrey and Howard Rosenthal (1985) on the impossibility of large-scale turnout essentially survives, despite the introduction of altruism. We solve this problem...