Browsing by Subject "elections"
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Affective Suffrage: Social Media, Street Protests, and Theatre as Alternative Spaces for Political Self-Representation in the 2012 Mexican Presidential Elections
(2017)This article examines alternative forums for democratic self-representation as a response to state corruption, especially the social movement #YoSoy132, which emerged online and on the streets during Mexico’s 2012 electoral ... -
Election Fraud and Misinformation on Twitter: Author, Cluster, and Message Antecedents
(2022)This study determined the antecedents of diffusion scope (total audience), speed (number of adopters/time), and shape (broadcast vs. person-to-person transmission) for true vs. fake news about a falsely claimed stolen 2020 ... -
Electoral forensics: Testing the "free and fair" claim
(2014-05)Democratic elections are the international norm for government legitimacy. Currently, election observers are the primary examiners of claims of democracy. Unfortunately, cost and access restrict their effectiveness. Electoral ... -
The Role of State Political Parties in Congressional Elections
(2020)Using an original dataset of state party bylaws, this dissertation examines the institutional role of state political parties in congressional primaries. Specifically, I consider how representative state political parties ...