Objective. Immigration and the economy were the most salient issues in British politics at the 2010 general election, yet the relationship between them remains unclear. This article questions whether perception of the economic situation influenced hostility to immigration to Britain during the 2010 general election campaign. Method. This article employs a logistic regression model using the 201...

PURPOSE To analyze the extent to which Americans aged 65 and older may have voted as an old age-benefits bloc in the 2010 midterm election in response to threats of Medicare rationing. METHODS Analysis of age group data from the Edison Research 2010 Election Day exit polls, complemented by data published elsewhere. RESULTS For the first time in 4 decades, there were signs of an old-age voti...

Political Action Committees (PACs) can a€ect public policies in either of two ways: altering legislators' roll-call voting behavior, or in ̄uencing election outcomes. This paper develops a dynamic model demonstrating that the relative importance of the election-in ̄uencing channel is easily underestimated. A one-time contribution to a candidate who supports the PAC's position that alters an elect...

Many single-winner election methods have been proposed besides the kind, called “plurality voting,” most-used in the USA. The most well known are Approval Voting, Instant Runoff, Range Voting, Borda, and Condorcet methods. This proposal is to fund me to continue to build IEVS (Infinitely Extendible Election Simulator), a public-source program currently downloadable from the http://RangeVoting.o...

This study examines the relationship between board and ownership structures and firm performance in an environment of severe political and economic crisis. Using panel data from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) for the period 2000-2005, we split the period into prepresidential election period (2000-2002) (a relatively stable political and economic period) and post-presidential election period ...

This paper proposes the use of double-entry accounting to maintain the integrity of election data as they go through the processes of counting, canvassing, consolidation, and reporting. Double-entry accounting brings to election tallies its well-known benefits of minimizing errors, deterring fraud, and maintaining the integrity of large collections of numeric data. Its superiority to single-ent...

In this paper we analyze a two-candidate electoral competition in which a candidate can either lie about his private policy preference in order to get elected, or pander to post-election external influences in choosing a policy to implement. Both the pre-election announcement and post-election implementation are a candidate’s strategic choices. We show that, in equilibrium, different types of c...

The election narrative is formed under the competitions of ideas among critical players involving politicians, news media, public influentials, and the general public. Untangling the complex process of narrative formation, however, is no easy task due to implicit influences among the key players. In this paper, we propose the problem of measuring "responsiveness" that quantifies a player’s infl...

The Election paradigm can be used as a building block in many practical problems such as group communication, atomic commit and replicated data management where a protocol coordinator might be useful. The problem has been widely studied in the research community since one reason for this wide interest is that many distributed protocols need an election protocol. However, despite its usefulness,...

Leader election is the process of choosing a leader for symmetry breaking where each node in the network eventually decides whether it is a leader or not. This paper proposes a new leader election algorithm to solve the problem of leader failure in three dimensional torus networks. The proposed algorithm solves the election problem despite the existent of link failure. In a network of N nodes c...