• This chapter presents basic concepts for the book and the meaning of digital media in
social and communication science.• It starts with a description of the daily life of people in …

Understanding why donors give money to legislative candidates is vital for assessing how
money influences politics. In this paper, I test theories of why political action committees …

The impact of the Internet on politics and electoral campaigns is the focus of considerable—
and, as yet, unsettled—debate. This article focuses on the manner in which the Bharatiya …

Inferences about individual campaign contributors are limited by how the Federal Election
Commission (FEC) collects and reports data. Only transactions that exceed a cycle-to-date …

Candidates raise substantial sums of money to compete in federal elections. Scholars and
election observers are concerned by potential corruption related to the reliance on donors …

Using 2012 and 2016 candidate disbursements and independent expenditures filing data
collected by the Federal Election Commission, this study compares how much money both …

This paper examines how Canadian constituency campaigns perceive and use data in
elections. We apply a conceptual framework for data-driven campaigning, developed from …

The 2016 and 2018 elections are over, but looking ahead to the 2019–2020 election cycle,
the debate over the fairness and accuracy of our electoral process has never been more …

This research examines variation in response to mass email communications by a large and
sophisticated political campaign over the course of the 2018 election cycle. Computational …

This paper studies how extreme weather and natural disasters affect campaign contributions
and elections. Weather events associated with climate change may influence these …