Voting procedures focus on the aggregation of individuals' preferences to produce collective
decisions. In practice, a voting procedure is characterized by ballot responses and the way …

Politicians who care about the spoils of office may underprovide a public good because its
benefits cannot be targeted to voters as easily as pork-barrel spending. We compare a …

Negative campaigning is an important aspect of campaign competition but plays little or no
role in existing models of campaigns. Within the context of plurality elections for a single …

Using state-by-state voting data for US presidential elections, we observe that voter turnout
is a positive function of predicted closeness. To explain the strategic component of political …

This paper compares the equilibrium behavior and outcomes in a model of two-party
competition for legislative seats, under two different assumptions about the parties' goals:(i) …

Coughlin provides the most comprehensive and integrated analysis of probabilistic voting
models available, also develo** further his important contributions. Probabilistic voting …

Within an international framework, this work provides a fully comprehensive approach to the
geographical coverage of elections. Numerous applications of ideas and concepts from …

The Internet first played a minor role in the 1992 US Presidential election, and has gradually
increased in importance so that it is central to election campaign strategy. However, election …

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This paper analyzes how US presidential candidates should allocate resources across
states to maximize the probability of winning the election, by develo** and estimating a …