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This book provides a truly comprehensive analysis of the 2013 federal election in Australia, which brought the conservative Abbott government to power, consigned the fractious Labor Party to the Opposition benches and ended the ‘hung parliament’ experiment of 2010–13 in which the Greens and three independents lent their support to form a minority Labor government.

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" Voting advice applications (VAA) have supported Finnish voters for over 20 years in their voting decisions in general elections. Most Finnish VAAs are planned and provided by the media, and they are based on matching opinions of individual candidates with an individual VAA users before elections. Nowadays, in Finland, VAAs are important for almost all age groups. Among the youngest voters VAAs are viewed as the most important source of information to support voting decisions. The book provides up-to-date and comprehensive picture over the role and significance of VAAs in the Finnish political system and in the political communication arena. Research topics deal also with VAA journalism and how candidates perceive VAAs. Research data and data materials in use are wide-ranging. They range from survey data sets to questions of VAAs and from interviews of candidates and VAA producers to media content about VAAs. Theoretical research questions are mostly related to the democratic value of VAAs. This perspective is central also in the end of the book, which opens possible future pathways for the VAAs."

voting advice applications --- journalism --- representative democracy --- elections --- voting --- Finland --- vaalikoneet --- käyttö --- äänestäminen --- vaalit --- media --- uutisointi --- poliittinen journalismi --- edustuksellinen demokratia --- Suomi

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This open access book raises crucial questions about the citizenship of the European Union. Is it a new citizenship beyond the nation-state although it is derived from Member State nationality? Who should get it? What rights and duties does it entail? Should EU citizens living in other Member States be able to vote there in national elections? If there are tensions between free movement and social rights, which should take priority? And should the European Court of Justice determine what European citizenship is about or the legislative institutions of the EU or national parliaments? This book collects a wide range of answers to these questions from legal scholars, political scientists, and political practitioners. It is structured as a series of three conversations in which authors respond to each other. This exchange of arguments provides unique depth to the debate.

European Union, Citizenship, Voting rights, Social rights, Free movement, EUDO CITIZENSHIP, GLOBALCIT, Open access

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Interest in politics and the political process—topics that economists consider to be the purview of the sub-field of study known as public choice—appears to be as high as ever. This Special Issue aims to provide a collection of high-quality studies covering many of the varied topics traditionally investigated in the growing field of public choice economics. These include expressive and instrumental voting, checks and balances in the enforcement of rules, electoral disproportionality, foreign aid and political freedom, voting cycles, (in)stability of political ideology, federal spending on environmental goods, pork-barrel and general appropriations spending, politics and taxpayer funding for professional sports arenas, and political scandal and “friends-and-neighbors” voting in general elections. In bringing these topics together in one place, this Special Issue offers a mix of conceptual/formal and empirical studies in public choice economics.

friends-and-neighbors voting --- localism in elections --- reputation capital --- political scandal --- expressive voting --- instrumental voting --- voter turnout --- rational voter apathy --- rational ignorance --- confirmation bias --- Altruism --- Leading by example --- Policy formulation --- Hierarchical games --- constitutional constraints --- checks and balances --- political elite --- democratic oversight --- election --- rector --- Ghent University --- majority decision --- majority judgment --- public choice --- public interest --- seniority --- mining --- political economy --- pork-barrel spending --- campaign finance --- incumbency advantage --- elections --- electoral systems --- proportionality --- electoral quota --- disproportionality indexes --- measurement --- Spain --- Sweden --- Germany --- voting behavior --- National Football League --- Donald Trump --- political ideology --- roll-call voting --- public choice --- public policy --- United States Congress --- n/a

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Political actors navigate a world of incomplete and noisy information. Voters make decisions about turnout and voting amidst campaign promises, credit claiming, and fake news. Policymakers experiment with reforms amidst uncertain predictions from experts and biased interest groups. Parties form coalitions and sign agreements amidst cheap talk and strategic communication. Beyond democracies, autocrats and dictators rule under uncertain threats to their regimes. In all of these environments, some political actors have incentives to learn and gather information, while others have incentives to influence and manipulate this information. This Special Issue addresses the question of how information structures, information transmission, and communication technologies influence political environments and affect the incentives faced by political actors. This is a collection of articles, combining game-theoretical and experimental work. The articles promote novel ideas and address understudied questions, which range from salience determination to microtargeting, ambiguous voting and information naivety. The findings complement the existing literature and suggest rationales for inefficiencies that arise in political environments with incomplete and noisy information.

jury trial --- pivotality --- ambiguity --- electoral competition --- multidimensional policy space --- microtargeting --- office-motivated candidates --- negative campaigning --- strategic disclosure --- mutual optimism --- incentives to go to war --- information --- correlation neglect --- information aggregation --- committee decision making --- voting experiment --- recency bias --- n/a