Criminality, insecurity and behavior of voters: An analysis of 2010 state electoral process in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua by Andrés Valdez Zepeda, Abraham Paniagua Vázquez

“…We conclude that violence and insecurity crisis oriented voting behavior. Ciudad Juarez case shows that, despite public insecurity and violence indicators, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, as the local and national ruling party, won the election.…”
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Blockholder voting by Bar-Isaac, H, Shapiro, J

“…We examine their voting behavior by adding a voter with many votes, i.e., a blockholder, to a standard voting model. …”

Shaking the trees: Abilities and Capabilities of Regression and Decision Trees for Political Science by Waldhauser Christoph, Hochreiter Ronald

“…To do this, we defined two scenarios, one pertaining to an analytical goal, the other being aimed at predicting unknown voting behavior. The suitability of both methods is measured in the dimensions of consistency, tolerance towards misspecification, prediction quality and overall variability. …”
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Economic models of voting: an empirical study on the electoral behavior in Romanian 2012 parliamentary elections by Mihai UNGUREANU, Andra ROESCU

“…The goal of this research is to test some of the implications of several influential economic models of voting behavior: the calculus of voting model, the expressive voter model, the altruist voter model and the minimax regret model. …”
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The Electoral Buzz: Rational Prospective Voting and the Politics of the Zika Epidemic in Brazil by Kelly Senters Piazza, Rodrigo Schneider

“…This article reevaluates often-made assumptions of retrospective voting and voter irrationality in studies of voting behavior in political contexts colored by haphazard, apolitical events. …”
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Le vote ouvrier et l’élection de Donald Trump : histoire et limites du discours populiste by Tamara Boussac

“…This article examines the voting behavior of the white working class in the deindustrialized regions of the Northeast and Midwest in 2016. …”
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Spójność, zgodność i dyscyplina ugrupowań parlamentarnych: przegląd aktualnych zagadnień badawczych by Jacek K. Sokołowski

“…With regard to the very few Polish studies of the subject, the author proposes a clear Polish terminology relating to major concepts used to describe the voting behavior of a parliamentary group.…”
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Dinamica regională a opțiunilor politice 1996-2000 by Sebastian Lăzăroiu

“…Is voting behavior depending on geography? What can we learn from the last elections as compared with 1996? …”
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Income, Ideology, and Representation by Chris Tausanovitch

“…Although the preferences of higher-income constituents account for more of the variation in legislator voting behavior, higher-income constituents also account for much more of the variation in district preferences. …”
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Attitudinal and normative influence on behavioral intentions: the moderating role of meta-attitudinal judgments within the Theory of Reasoned Action by Flora Kokkinaki

“…They also reported their subjective norms, voting intentions and, at a later stage, their voting behavior. The results corroborate the predictive value of the theory. …”
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El perfil del votante anulista en la elección federal de 2009 en México: independencia partidista y movilidad cognitiva by Gerardo Isaac Cisneros

“…It also evaluates the differentiated effect of the latter variable on the electoral behavior of independent voters, and concludes by arguing for the need to include independence from political parties and cognitive mobility in the analysis of voting behavior.…”
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Shaping the liberal international order from the inside: A natural experiment on China’s influence in the UN human rights council by Gino Pauselli, Francisco Urdínez, Federico Merke

“…We find that China’s presence in the Council systematically alters the voting behavior of other states in favor of China’s interest, and that this change is larger when it comes to the enforcement of human rights through international criticism. …”
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Scaling Roll Call Votes with wnominate in R by Keith Poole, Jeffrey B. Lewis, James Lo, Royce Carroll

“…In contrast to other scaling methods, W-NOMINATE explicitly assumes probabilistic voting based on a spatial utility function, where the parameters of the utility function and the spatial coordinates of the legislators and the votes can all be estimated on the basis of observed voting behavior. Building on software written by Poole in Fortran, the new wnominate package in R facilitates easier data input and manipulation, generates bootstrapped standard errors, and includes a new suite of graphics functions to display the results. …”
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Pipeline politics: Russian energy sanctions and the 2010 Ukrainian elections by Randall E. Newnham

“…Uniquely, however, this paper links sanctions to the long-standing literature on elections in the U.S. and other democracies which shows how economic decline influences voting behavior. A certain level of sanctions may cause a predictable change in election outcomes in the targeted state. …”
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Still Aquamarine: China Factor and the 2020 Election Revisited by Kai-Ping Huang

“…However, the rise of political outsiders and their influence on voting behavior in this election were overlooked and underestimated. …”
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Information Use and the Condorcet Jury Theorem by Keiichi Morimoto

“…Although enlarging the committee promotes information aggregation, it also stimulates the members’ coordination motive and distorts their voting behavior through higher-order beliefs. On the determination of a finite optimal committee size, the direction and degree of strategic interactions matter. …”
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Configuración de los apoyos electorales a nivel municipal. Un análisis de los resultados electorales para la Alcaldía de Cali (2003-2015) by Juan Pablo Milanese, Alejandro Rodríguez, Beatriz Cuervo

“…Based on premises of the sociological model of voting behavior and through the use of fuzzy sets and geo-referencing, it makes estimates regarding electoral behavior in relation to socio-economic status and levels of fragmentation exhibited by the different types of candidacy (elite–non-elite). …”
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La partecipazione elettorale in Italia by Maurizio Cerruto

“…In the final part of the article we claim that abstention is really only one dimension of a more general process of instability in voting behavior. We identify electoral volatility, partisan identification and vote to protest parties as further evidence in order to state a specific syndrome of declining legitimacy for main actors in democracy loosing the grip with electorate.…”
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The Influence of Sectoral and Regional Economic Interests on Russian Legislative Behaviour: The Case of State Duma Voting on Production Sharing Agreements Legislation by Chaisty, P

“…The question of whether there were systematic <br/>linkages between economic interests—sectoral (private business and state) and regional— <br/>and the voting behavior of Duma deputies is considered. Research results are used <br/>to discuss the Russian parliament’s capacity to articulate and integrate interests in <br/>ways that further the public good."…”

Casual Social Media Use among the Youth: Effects on Online and Offline Political Participation by Mehdi Barati

“…The analyses provide evidence of a significant effect of casual social media use on online political participation and no effect or negligible effect on offline political activity and voting behavior. The results from fixed effects and instrumental variable models provide strong evidence of elasticity between online political participation and offline political activity in young individuals. …”
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