State Parties 2.0: Facebook, Campaigns, and Elections

Bekafigo, Marija Anna; Cohen, Diana Tracy; Gainous, Jason; Wagner, Kevin M.

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“…Although Donald Trump was known for his active use of Twitter, the role of Facebook has been examined in the context of the heated 2016 presidential election in which he defeated Hillary Clinton (Beam, Hutchens, and Hmielowski 2018;Bossetta 2018;Rossini, Stromer-Galley, and Zhang 2020;Silva et al 2018). Research on the use of Facebook in election campaigns is not limited to presidential elections, but also includes congressional and gubernatorial elections (MacWilliams 2015;Mascaro, Novak, and Goggins 2012;Williams and Gulati 2013), legislators in each state (Bekafigo et al 2013), and local elected representatives (Flores 2017;Sances 2018).…”

Section: Facebook In Us Electionsmentioning

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Why Did I Lose My Seat in the United States Congressional Elections? You Didn‘t Advertise Online Enough!

Školník,

Haman

et al. 2024

Acta Politologica

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In this paper, we examine campaign spending on Facebook during the 2020 U.S. congressional elections. We draw conclusions based on data from the Federal Election Commission and the Facebook Ad Library. This is one of the first articles on this topic. We point out and show how this data differs and how other researchers should treat it. Specifically, we focus on U.S. Democratic congresspeople who lost elections. Indeed, during the Democratic Party debate, voices were raised that its progressive wing was to blame for the loss of seats; in contrast, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a rising star of the wing, argued that the lack of Facebook advertising was a factor in why seats were lost. The article concludes that the really well-known Democratic figures who lost the elections spent very little on Facebook ads compared to Ocasio-Cortez. We also compare Republican opponents with Democrats. In addition, we highlight how the Ocasio-Cortez campaign and the others differed with respect to the timing of campaign spending and the targeting of Facebook ads to specific states. Further, we compare data regarding campaigns available through the Federal Election Commission and Facebook and underscore the importance of the transparency of the Facebook Ad Library.

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Section: Facebook In Us Electionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why Did I Lose My Seat in the United States Congressional Elections? You Didn‘t Advertise Online Enough!

Školník,

Haman

et al. 2024

Acta Politologica

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“…The resurgence of party organizations has been driven by increased resources and professionalization among party staff (Kayden & Mahe Jr. 1985), and the most powerful party organizations are described as long lasting, autonomous, internally hierarchical with specialization among staff, interested in bringing about the nominations of candidates for a wide range of public offices, reliant on material incentives in carrying out their work, and resource rich (Cotter et al, 1984; Mayhew, 1974). Overall, state political parties, and their local subsidiaries, are important in modern elections because among other things, they recruit candidates and provide both technical services and financial support (Frendreis, et al, 1990; Brox 2004; Bekafigo, et al, 2013; Crowder-Meyer 2013; Preece & Stoddard 2015; Doherty et al 2022). 3…”

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Do Party Rules Matter? An Examination of State Party Bylaws and Congressional Nominations

Geras

2022

American Politics Research

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This paper considers whether the rules governing state political parties help to explain primary election outcomes. I theorize political parties will see lower levels of competition during primary elections when they have bylaws that centralize power within the state central committee. To test this expectation, I created a dataset of state-level party rules by collecting and coding provisions within the bylaws of all 100 state-level Republican and Democratic parties. I operationalize party centralization of power as whether or not elected officials are represented within each party’s formal membership, their state central committee, and whether or not each party has an endorsement or neutrality policy when it comes to contested primaries. I find the centralization of party power does correlate with lower levels of competition in primary elections for the House of Representatives in 2018 and 2020. Specifically, parties are more likely to see uncontested primaries when they guarantee ex-officio state committee membership to their co-partisan elected officials and are more likely to see fewer candidates in general when they guarantee ex-officio state committee membership to their co-partisan elected officials and when they do not have rules that require the state central committee to remain neutral during contested primary elections. While evaluating the causes of this trend is beyond the scope of this paper, these findings appear to be driven by Republican primaries.

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“…La competencia en las redes no se limitaba a Twitter. Ya desde 2010 el partido republicano tenía más fuerza que el demócrata en Facebook, al menos en algunos estados (Bekafigo et al, 2013). Sin embargo, en la campaña de 2016 tomó fuerza un aspecto diferente de Facebook: las noticias falsas.…”

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Brexit, paz y Trump: enseñanzas para los economistas

Molina

Chicaíza

2018

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Este ensayo analiza tres procesos electorales que tuvieron resultados inesperados: la salida del Reino Unido de la Unión Europea, el rechazo del acuerdo de paz en Colombia y la elección de Trump como presidente de Estados Unidos. Subraya tres aspectos: las predicciones se hicieron en una situación de incertidumbre con base en reglas o convenciones, las campañas involucraron fuertes elementos emocionales y los resultados fueron afectados por factores culturales (identitarios y religiosos) y no sólo económicos. La economía estándar omite tales factores aunque debería tomarlos en cuenta.

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State Parties 2.0: Facebook, Campaigns, and Elections

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Why Did I Lose My Seat in the United States Congressional Elections? You Didn‘t Advertise Online Enough!

Why Did I Lose My Seat in the United States Congressional Elections? You Didn‘t Advertise Online Enough!

Do Party Rules Matter? An Examination of State Party Bylaws and Congressional Nominations

Brexit, paz y Trump: enseñanzas para los economistas

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