An influential paper by Caughey and Sekhon (2011a) suggests that the outcomes of very close US House elections in the postwar eramay not be as-if random, thus calling into question this application of regression discontinuity for causal inference. We show that while incumbent party candidates are more likely to win close House elections, those who win are no di erent on observable characteristi...

In 2004, the Government of Timor-Leste introduced elections to villages (suku). Timor-Leste had only been formally independent since 20021, after some centuries of colonisation by Portugal (variable in the timing and degree of penetration), almost twenty-five years of more systematic occupation by Indonesia (1975–99), and two years of centralised transitional administration by the United Nation...

There is a large literature on economic voting in the United States, which shows that the economy matters in presidential and congressional elections. Puzzlingly, however, the state politics literature has failed to find clear evidence for economic voting in gubernatorial elections. In this study, I use population-based datasets of state and county-level economic conditions from 1969-2016 to ex...

Auctions and elections are seemingly disjoint research fields. Nevertheless, we observe that similar cryptographic primitives are used in both fields. For instance, mixnets, homomorphic encryption, and trapdoor bitcommitments, have been used by state-of-the-art schemes in both fields. These developments have appeared independently. For example, the adoption of mixnets in elections preceded a si...

The next generation of Israeli elections is proposed to run on an e-voting system which uses near-field RFID tags instead of plain paper ballots. In 2010 we investigated the system and identified several potential attacks which can be launched against the proposed system. In this work we report on the actual implementation of two of these attacks – zapping and jamming. These attacks have a crit...

Following the Constitution of Republic Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan claims to be a democratic state; people are only source state power; exercise power directly and through their representatives. Elections one forms direct by population Republic, central element political system, observing nature state. It is basis for all representative authorities at republican local levels, municipal bodies, head ...

The article discusses an attempt to use the elections Supreme Soviet of USSR as a tool promote political advantage socialism. turn 1950s and 1960s was marked by desire build dialogue between East West. demonstrated its openness willingness compete with West not only tanks, planes missiles, but also on symbolic field. One such aspect competition, which supposed prove superiority socialism, elect...

1. THE PROBLEM. Something is rotten in the electoral state of the United States. Mathematics is involved. Advances in computer technology—hardware and software— have permitted a great leap “forward” in the fine art of political gerrymandering—“the practice of dividing a geographical area into electoral districts, often of highly irregular shape, to give one political party an unfair advantage b...