Social networks and voter turnout

Autor: Georgia Kernell, P. J. Lamberson

Publikováno v: Royal Society Open Science, Vol 10, Iss 10 (2023)

This paper develops a model of voter turnout that embeds Riker and Ordeshook’s (1968 Am. Pol. Sci. Rev. 62, 25–42 (doi:10.2307/1953324)) calculus of voting into the context of a social network. In the model, an individual’s expressive benefits

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Examining the limits of the Condorcet Jury Theorem: Tradeoffs in hierarchical information aggregation systems

Autor: Lucas Böttcher, Georgia Kernell

Publikováno v: Collective Intelligence. 1:263391372211334

Condorcet’s Jury Theorem states that the correct outcome is reached in direct majority voting systems with sufficiently large electorates as long as each voter’s independent probability of voting for that outcome is greater than 1/2. Previous res

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https://doi.org/10.1177/26339137221133401

Why are U.S. Parties So Polarized? A 'Satisficing' Dynamical Model

Autor: Adilson E. Motter, Vicky Chuqiao Yang, Daniel M. Abrams, Georgia Kernell

Since the 1960s, Democrats and Republicans in U.S. Congress have taken increasingly polarized positions, while the public's policy positions have remained centrist and moderate. We explain this apparent contradiction by developing a dynamical model t

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http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.05661

Market Demand for Civic Affairs News

Autor: John Zaller, P.J. Lamberson, Georgia Kernell

Publikováno v: Political Communication. 35:239-260

This paper uses time series methods to test the relationship between civic affairs content and audience share for the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news in the mid-1990s. Because these programs competed in the same market, but varied the amount of their

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https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2017.1339221

Party Nomination Rules and Campaign Participation

Autor: Georgia Kernell

Publikováno v: Comparative Political Studies, vol 48, iss 13
Kernell, G. (2015). Party Nomination Rules and Campaign Participation. Comparative Political Studies, 48(13), 1814-1843. doi: 10.1177/0010414015574876. UCLA: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/655504kv

This study examines how political party organizations shape campaign participation in advanced industrialized parliamentary democracies. In some parties, members directly nominate candidates to run for parliament. In others, selection is the sole res

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https://doi.org/10.1177/0010414015574876