>pThis paper has two objectives; to come up with a set of attributes that can be used to measure presidential aspirants in a democratic governance system, and to co-opt the attributes so assembled into a mathematical model that can be used to emcompute/em the best candidate among a ...
Political candidate Web pages have become de rigeur in presidential campaigns. However, no set of standards have emerged for analysis and evaluation of this new and increasingly important electronic medium for political communication. We articulate a set of design criteria that address both the ...
presidential election was the first race since 1928 in which there was no executive incumbent running. We used this opportunity to test the hypothesis that self-monitoring would predict how and when voters, particularly independents who may be less likely to use political party affiliation as their...
National parties gave little salience to the Spitzenkandidaten process (Braun and Popa 2018), and while media consumption slightly increases the odds of being able to express a preference for a lead candidate, it has become increasingly unlikely for the average citizen to find information about the...