Anti-DAP pledge will turn voters against Pakatan by New, Sunday Times

“…KUALA LUMPUR: Pas's vow to prevent DAP and its allies from winning the upcoming 14th General Election will persuade Malay voters, especially those who support Pas, against supporting Pakatan Harapan. …”
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Implementing Asynchronous Distributed Systems Using the IOA Toolkit by Georgiou, Chryssis, Mavrommatis, Panayiotis P., Tauber, Joshua A.

“…In order to test the toolkit, several distributed algorithms were implemented, rangingfrom simple algorithms such as LCR leader election in a ring network to more complex algorithmssuch as the GHS algorithm for computing the minimum spanning tree in an arbitrary graph. …”
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Partial Reversal Acyclicity by Radeva, Tsvetomira, Lynch, Nancy

“…These properties of PR make it useful in routing protocols and algorithms for solving leader election and mutual exclusion. While proofs exist to establish the acyclicity property of PR, they rely on assigning labels to either the nodes or the edges in the graph. …”
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Mobilizing Pasadena Democrats: Measuring the Effects of Partisan Campaign Contacts by Alvarez, R. Michael, Hopkins, Asa, Sinclair, Betsy

“…In contrast to the majority of the field experiments found in the contemporary get-out-the-vote literature, this paper studies the actual behavior of a campaign within a particular election as opposed to studying particular mobilization tactics. …”
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The American Internet Voter by Hall, Thad E., Sinclair, Betsy

“…We then consider whether the patterns of use for this technology appear different in the November 2008 General Election cycle. We focus our concerns in the context of increasing polarization of both some fraction of the American electorate and the policy platforms of elected officials.…”
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New Zealand's new government: soft power a casualty of coalition politics? by Rogerson, Evan

“…In the New Zealand general election of October 2020, the centre-left Labour Party won an absolute majority. …”
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Internet and its role in Singapore's changing political landscape. by Tan, Chi Ping.

“…However, with the recent turnaround of events in the 2011 General Election (GE) and the continuing change in political tide, the question of why did the political tide in Singapore turn surfaces. …”
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Policy evaluation : an analysis of the pioneer generation package and its impact on political participation by Ong, Johnathan Zhaowei

“…Meant to help defray increasing healthcare expenses as well as to honor the contributions of the pioneers in early nation-building years, this policy has caused sentiments about it to be split. Some called it an election tool of the incumbent party, intended to draw more votes. …”
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Upgrades for votes : strategic use of public housing improvement programme in Singapore by Ngan, Edwina Ye Luan, Lee, Jin Yong, Yeo, Yu Ping

“…We also find that this effect considerably weakens after the 2006 election, possibly in response to concerns that the upgrade programmes were being used for strategically.…”
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Post-truth, information and emotion by Tredinnick, Luke, Laybats, Claire

“…Associated in particular with the Brexit referendum campaign and with the recent US presidential election, the post truth political discourse is perhaps best exemplified by Michael Gove’s claim on Sky news that “people in this country have had enough of experts” (Gove, 2016). …”
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The anatomy of impatience: exploring factors behind 2020 labor unrest in Belarus by Artiukh, V

“…The wave of labor unrest that accompanied Belarusian post-election protests had no precedents in the country's independent history or recent post-Soviet political protest mobilizations. …”

Introducing COMEPELDA: comprehensive European Parliament electoral data covering rules, parties and candidates by Däubler, T, Chiru, M, Hermansen, SSL

“…We introduce a new collection of data that consolidates information on European Parliament elections into one comprehensive source. It provides information on formal electoral rules as well as national-level and district-level election results for parties and individual politicians (including full candidate lists). …”

Losers’ consent and emotions in the aftermath of the Brexit referendum by Tilley, J, Hobolt, SB

“…This is examined in the context of the 2016 Brexit referendum, as well as the 2019 UK general election, using original survey data and an experiment in which specific emotional responses (anger and happiness) are induced to test the causal effect of emotions. …”

Condorcet winning sets by Elkind, E, Lang, J, Saffidine, A

“…An alternative is said to be a Condorcet winner of an election if it is preferred to any other alternative by a majority of voters. …”

Black candidates facing white electorates by Johnson, R

“…<p>It has long been assumed that when African American candidates compete in majority-white election environments, they adopt a 'deracilaised' campaign model that discards their racial identity in order to win white support. …”

Local economies, local wealth, and economic perceptions by Ansell, B, Cansunar, A

“…Drawing upon data from the British Election Survey and local authority level economic indicators, we show that negative subjective perceptions strongly predict support for Brexit, disapproval of the government, and demand for redistribution.…”

Community structure in the United States House of Representatives by Porter, M, Mucha, P, Newman, M, Friend, A

“…We identify structural changes, including additional hierarchical levels and higher modularity, resulting from the 1994 election, in which the Republican party earned majority status in the House for the first time in more than 40 years. …”

An index of assembly dissolution powers by Schleiter, P, Goplerud, M

“…It conditions the timing of elections, influences electoral accountability, and shapes how politicians bargain about government formation, termination, and policy. …”

Voter reactions to incumbent opportunism by Schleiter, P, Tavits, M

“…We combine four original surveys with embedded experiments and focus on a common form of opportunism in parliamentary systems—opportunistic election timing to favorable economic conditions. We find that opportunism negatively affects support for the incumbent because it engenders voter concern about the incumbent’s future performance and raises significant concerns about procedural fairness. …”

Candidate ethnicity and vote choice in Britain by Fisher, S, Heath, A, Sanders, D, Sobolewska, M

“…This article develops and tests a set of theoretical mechanisms by which candidate ethnicity may have affected the party vote choice of both white British and ethnic minority voters in the 2010 British general election. Ethnic minority candidates suffered an average electoral penalty of about 4 per cent of the three-party vote from whites, mostly because those with anti-immigrant feelings were less willing to vote for Muslims. …”