The regression-discontinuity (RD) design has experienced a resurgence of interest in many fields, including political science. Following David Lee’s pioneering work on the incumbency advantage in U.S. House elections, many scholars have begun to apply RD designs to popular elections. Under certain assumptions, the RD design yields causal estimates that approach the gold standard of randomized e...

Surge-and-decline theory accounts for an enduring regularity in American politics: the predictable increase in voter turnout that accompanies on-year congressional elections and its equally predictable decrease at midterm. Despite the theory’s wide historical applicability, antebellum American political history offers a strong challenge to its generalizability, with patterns of surge-and-declin...

Elections have constituted important symbolic events throughout the course of democratization and continue to be one of the most extensively analysed features of Taiwan’s political landscape. 1 Contemporary elections are fiercely contested and often dramatic events, with high levels of citizen engagement. 2 Analyses of party and candidate behaviour during campaigns have also suggested that “Tai...

Our paper deals with the question how remote e-voting can be put into practice in a secure and at the same time feasible way. We show that outsourcing the technical implementation of electronic elections to a Voting Service Provider (VSP) is one solution to this problem. Our concept can help election hosts to easily conduct electronic elections without having to take care of the necessary secur...

Veri able Secret-Ballot Elections Josh Daniel Cohen Benaloh

Second-order election (SOE) theory has been used to explain voting behaviour in European elections. Voters believe that less is at stake some elections and voters hence tend cast a protest vote. However, most studies on the topic have focused demand side of SOEs – i.e. ignored or only partially tackled supply strategic parties excluded small marginal (SMPs). SMPs may greater incentive seriously...