Internet has found an increasing role in the politics, during the last decade. Today, terms like digital democracy, Internet elections, Internet advertisements (propaganda, social- political Web logging in the internet has become common terms.  Internet is getting replaced for the traditional media in politics. The interactive characteristic of this media has changed it to an unrivaled instrume...

Trust matters profoundly for many dimensions of political life. In this article we focus on political trust: how the trust or mistrust citizens have toward the political process, politicians and government affects politics. Prior research has shown that political trust influences such crucial dimensions of politics as the basic legitimacy of government, political participation, voting behavior,...

We report on the design and implementation of a new cryptographic voting system, designed to retain the “look and feel” of standard paper-based voting used in our country, while enhancing security with end-to-end verifiability guaranteed by cryptographic voting. Our system is dual-ballot and runs two voting processes in parallel: one is electronic while the other is paper-based and similar to t...

the impact of gender gap on voting behavior generally is categorized into the traditional gap, convergence and revisionist patterns. this paper, firstly by using survey research method and data were collected from 230 eligible male and female voters in isfahan, makes clear that the first pattern or the traditional gender gap is dominated in this electorate, which denotes that women are more con...

The election system used to select Afghanistan’s Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament) has radically shaped the realms of democratic stability and political legitimacy since its introduction for the elections of 2005. Afghanistan uses the Single Non-Transferable Vote (SNTV) in 34 provincial-level, multi-member constituencies with a special affirmative action (quota) mechanism for women. The ...

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) (formally created in 1974 when Congress amended the Federal Election Campaign Act) is charged with the burdensome role of administering and enforcing federal election laws. Comprised of six voting commissioners, the FEC by law can have no more than three members of the same political party and in practice is balanced between three voting Democrats and three...

Based on the view of morality proposed by the Moral Foundations Theory, this paper investigates whether voting intention is associated with moral foundation endorsement in not perfectly bipolar electoral contexts. Three studies carried out in Italy from 2010 to 2013, showed that controlling for ideological orientation, moral foundation endorsement is associated with voting intention. In Study 1...

This paper examines the impact of political uncertainty on the recent financial crises in emerging markets. By examining political election cycles, we find that eight out of nine of the recent financial crises happened during periods of political election and transition. Using a combination of probit and switching regression analysis, we find that there is a significant relationship between pol...

We provide a unified analysis of the canonical rational voting model with privately known political preferences and costs of voting. Focusing on type-symmetric equilibrium, we show that for small electorates, members of the minority group vote with a strictly higher probability than do those in the majority, but the majority is strictly more likely to win the election. As the electorate size gr...