This article explores Swedish parties' activities on Instagram during the 2014 elections.
Understanding party campaign communication as highly strategic, that is, communication to …

Reformers lament that, with every effort to regulate the sources of campaign funding,
candidates creatively circumvent the new legislation. But in fact, political fundraisers don't …

As a result of various political and non-political developments, the socio-culturally anchored
and well structured character of European party systems has come under strain. This article …

Late deciders go for the challenger; turnout helps the Democrats; the gender gap results
from a surge in Democratic preference among women--these and many other myths are …

Why are some people more responsive to campaign mobilization than others? I argue that
the composition of a person's core personality makes some people more responsive to …

How partisan politics influence grant-related decisions at the state level. Each year, states
receive hundreds of billions of dollars in grants-in-aid from the federal government …

Campaign Effects on Vote Choice | The Oxford Handbook of American Elections and
Political Behavior | Oxford Academic Skip to Main Content Advertisement Oxford Academic …

This article examines whether the need to mobilize citizens pushes incumbents to the
ideological extremes in US House elections. We test whether incumbents are more …

Few scholars have examined perceptions of electoral competition, and those who have find
no link between perceptions and voting behavior. We find that individuals' perceptions of …

The web allows political parties to segment and microtarget specific groups of voters. This
paper seeks to measure voter targeting online focusing on catch-all parties and client …