Voters, Issues, and Elections: Are the Candidates' Messages Getting Through?

Dalager, Jon K.

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“…Internet reduces the barriers to participation and thus reduces social inequality that exists in public life. In addition, the factors of political knowledge, political experience, years of education, level of interest in politics, and strength of partisanship also became a driving factor of someone participating in politics (Dalager, 1996). This statement is also in line with behavioral theories of political participation which state that the social and economic characteristics of voters, education, and income are the most important variable in explaining whether one votes (Tolbert and McNeal, 2003).…”

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Social Media and Effort to Coax Young Voters in Jakarta, Indonesia

Astuti

Hangsing

2016

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Political information is often regarded as a topic that is too heavy and not appealing to young voters and this makes them become apathetic. They also considered that there was no point in participating in politics because whatever they do can not change the situation. However, these conditions change with the emergence of social media. Social Media is a new media, which have different characteristics from previous media. It also has the potential to maximize the interactivity and two-way communication that allows users to engage and participate actively. However, with the presence and advantages of social media, can this media change the interest of young voters to political information, which in turn encourages them to participate in the election? By using a survey of students in departments that are accredited 'A' in Jakarta, the research concluded that the ability to convey information, the opportunity to connect directly with the candidate, as well as the opportunity to actively participate contained in social media, had an impact on the level of interest in political information and decision-making to select a candidate for young voters in elections.Keywords: Social media, political information, election, young voter, political participation. ABSTRAK

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Social Media and Effort to Coax Young Voters in Jakarta, Indonesia

Astuti

Hangsing

2016

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“…11) and others (e.g., Inglehart and Klingemann 1976: 261-64;Peterson 1978), we constructed a cognitive mobilization index by combining education (to represent the skills component) with interest in public affairs (to represent the political involvement component). 2 These two variables are modestly correlated (the tau-b is .22 across all time points), but we combine the two items because both make an independent contribution to the underlying concept (also see Dalager 1996). The cognitively mobilized are those who possess both the skills and motivation to grapple with the complexities of politics on their own.…”

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Partisan mobilization, cognitive mobilization and the changing American electorate

Dalton

2007

Electoral Studies

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“…If those with greater education have access to a better quality of information regarding candidates and issues, then game-theoretic models suggest that they should vote in greater numbers (Feddersen 2004). 9 It appears that a well-educated population, somehow stimulated to be interested in political matters, may have a higher probability of turning out in an election (Dalager 1996). 10 We also consider that the situation reflects the degree of political competition in each electoral district, and use the absolute value of the vote shares between the candidate who wins the last seat and the candidate who fails to be elected in the first rank.…”

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“…2 By contrast, unlike Dalager (1996), Shin et al (2005), Stratmann (2006) and Jacobson (2006), who use the total level of campaign spending as an anchor for their advertising efforts, we use the per eligible voter advertising spending for each candidate to analyze its impact on the election results. 3 The other relative issues are discussed in Asian countries like Korea (Lee 1993), Japan (Hiwatari 2005), and Singapore (Rodan 1997).…”

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Does candidates' advertising spending help winning?

Chang¹

2009

Journal of Economic Policy Reform

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This paper investigates the importance of political expenditures as the primary determinants of vote shares for the Taiwan 2004 legislator campaigns with multi-member districts. Our main findings are as follows. First, advertising spending, candidates in the same party as the mayor, the education level of voters and the degree of race competition had a strong effect on the candidates' vote shares but not on economic performance. Second, the advertising spending of both incumbents and challengers had a significant effect on vote shares, but the effects were greater for challengers than for incumbents. Third, the two major political camps, that is, the Pan-Blue and Pan-Green, showed that spending exerts a corresponding influence on vote shares. Fourth, we also discovered that the spending coefficients for the winners were larger than those for the losers. Finally, the logit model demonstrates the result of the impact of advertising expenditures on the predicted probability of winning the election.political advertising, campaign spending, vote shares, Pan-Blue, Pan-Green, logit model,

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Voters, Issues, and Elections: Are the Candidates' Messages Getting Through?

Cited by 42 publications

References 45 publications

Social Media and Effort to Coax Young Voters in Jakarta, Indonesia

Social Media and Effort to Coax Young Voters in Jakarta, Indonesia

Partisan mobilization, cognitive mobilization and the changing American electorate

Does candidates' advertising spending help winning?

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