Social Bots in Election Campaigns: Theoretical, Empirical, and Methodological Implications
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DOI: 10.1080/10584609.2018.1526238
Abstract: Social bots mimic and potentially manipulate humans and their behaviours in social networks. The public sphere might be especially vulnerable to their impacts, which is why we first discuss their potential influence on the public… read more here.
Keywords: election campaigns; bots election; public sphere; campaigns theoretical ... See more keywords
Crisis and populism: a comparative study of populist and non-populist candidates and rhetoric in the news media coverage of election campaigns
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DOI: 10.1080/23745118.2021.1896882
Abstract: This research investigates links between the Euro Crisis and populism and asks whether there are patterns of populism in different election campaigns, namely is there country-specific populist rhet... read more here.
Keywords: populist; election campaigns; crisis populism;
The #BTW17 Twitter Dataset-Recorded Tweets of the Federal Election Campaigns of 2017 for the 19th German Bundestag
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DOI: 10.3390/data2040034
Abstract: The German Bundestag elections are the most important elections in Germany. This dataset comprises Twitter interactions related to German politicians of the most important political parties over several months in the (pre-)phase of the German… read more here.
Keywords: election campaigns; federal election; german bundestag; twitter ... See more keywords
Efficient election campaign optimization using integer programming
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DOI: 10.3926/jiem.2496
Abstract: Purpose: Political parties spend significant amounts of resources during their election campaigns, which are usually designed in a sub-optimal and informal way. This study aims to provide a mathematical framework for political parties to optimize… read more here.
Keywords: election campaign; election campaigns; efficient election; political parties ... See more keywords