Smith (and Jones) Go to Washington: Democracy and Vice-Presidential Selection

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (01) ◽  
pp. 58-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Uscinski
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Presidential Selection ◽  
Single Person ◽  
Over Time

AbstractThe American vice president's most notable constitutional function is that of succession: if the president unexpectedly leaves office, the vice president becomes president. The process of selecting vice-presidential running mates has fallen into fewer hands over time, moving from the electorate, to party bosses and delegates, to a single person: the presidential candidate. The selection process presents challenges for democratic governance: electoral considerations may provide presidential candidates with incentive to choose vice-presidential running mates who differ from themselves politically. In cases of succession, this can lead to undemocratic outcomes and unstable policy.

The transformation of partisan rhetoric in American presidential campaigns, 1952–2012

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 566-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse H Rhodes ◽  
Zachary Albert
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Presidential Campaigns ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Campaign Strategies ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Dramatic Decline ◽  
Campaign Speeches ◽  
Party Differences ◽  
Over Time

What are the dynamics of partisan rhetoric in presidential campaigns? (How) has presidential candidate partisanship changed over time? Analyzing a comprehensive dataset of party-related statements in presidential campaign speeches over the 1952–2012 period, we show that Democratic and Republican candidates have taken distinctive approaches to partisanship. Overall, Democratic candidates have been partisans, while Republicans have largely refrained from partisan rhetoric on the campaign trail. However, this difference has narrowed substantially over time, due to a dramatic decline in the partisanship of Democratic presidential candidates. We argue that Democratic and Republican candidates have adopted different campaign strategies that reflect both enduring party differences and changing political contexts. Though naturally inclined to partisanship, Democratic candidates have adopted more conciliatory strategies primarily in response to growing public antipathy toward partisan rancor. In contrast, Republicans’ tendency toward more conciliatory rhetoric has been reinforced by political developments discouraging partisan campaigning.

Philippines presidential race will be close run

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Legislative Elections ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Presidential Candidates

Subject Update on the Philippines 2016 presidential race. Significance October 16 is the candidacy-filing deadline for May 2016's presidential and legislative elections. The three main presidential candidates are Vice President Jejomar Binay for the United Nationalist Alliance, former Interior Secretary Manuel 'Mar' Roxas for the Liberal Party and independent Senator Grace Poe. Minor candidates, who could play spoiler roles in a tight three-way race, have yet to declare. Impacts Binay and Roxas will seek suitable vice-presidential running-mates before time runs out. Local political bosses will be vital to build support blocs for their preferred presidential candidate. Poe's lack of a party machine may be an electoral liability.

scholarly journals PERBANDINGAN PESAN POLITIK DALAM KONFERENSI PERS JOKOWI DAN PRABOWO PASCA PENDAFTARAN CAPRES 2019

SUAR BETANG ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Kusno
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Political Speech ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Political Speeches

Presidential and vice presidential candidates, Joko Widodo-Ma’ruf Amin and Prabowo-Sandi have been officialy registered as president and vice president candidates for Indonesia Presidential Election 2019. Both of president candidates gave a political speeches after registering at the KPU. Those speeches become a representation of their perception regarding presidential election 2019. That is why it is so important to reveal their political speech. This research used Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis. They both realize if the registration for presidential election just for the importance of Indonesian. Prabowo just give a different emphasis about KPU which have to guard the presidential election of 2019 that free from cheating. That point based on consideration if Prabowo as the president candidate who ever lose in presidential election of 2014 and has an argument if the defeat caused by cheating. Unfortunately, the commitment of pair of presidential and vice presidential candidate is still far from hope. The fact is everyday the community get a treated of bad political. Political that abuse each other and emmity. There is a parts who played the issues SARA to catch a sympathy the electors to get a dominance. 

Rejecting More of the Same? The 2016 Veepstakes

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (04) ◽  
pp. 775-781
Author(s):  
Jody C Baumgartner
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Diversity ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Major Party ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Presidential Selection ◽  
Conditional Logit ◽  
Political Experience ◽  
Racial Ethnic

ABSTRACTIn this article, I present results from a conditional logit model of vice presidential selection that predicts the selection of vice presidential candidates for both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in 2016. Examining contested major party vice presidential nominations from 1960 through 2012, the model finds media exposure, political experience, military service, age, and demographic (gender/racial/ethnic) diversity to be significant factors in the selection process. In the end, the model correctly predicts 15 of the 21 (71.%) contested major party nominations during this period. For 2016 the model correctly and convincingly predicts Mike Pence as Donald Trump’s selection, but incorrectly predicts Cory Booker as Hillary Clinton’s pick. This reduces the overall percentage of correct predictions from 1960 to 2016 to 69.6% (16 of 23), but the approach taken here still represents a more appropriate way for social scientists to think about what factors drive vice presidential selection.

scholarly journals ANALISIS SENTIMEN CALON PRESIDEN DAN WAKIL PRESIDEN PERIODE 2019-2024 PASCA DEBAT PILPRES DI TWITTER

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Rizka Ardiansyah
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Social Networking Sites ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Sentiment ◽  
Negative Sentiment

Social networking sites, such as Twitter and Facebook are one of the important spaces for political engagement. Twitter or Facebook have become common elements in political campaigns and elections, especially for Indonesia’s presidential election 2019. for the period 2019 - 2024 there are two presidential and vice presidential candidates namely Ir. H. Joko Widodo - Prof. Dr. K.H. Ma'ruf Amin and Lieutenant General (Ret.) H. Prabowo Subianto - H. Sandiaga Uno. B.B.A., M.B.A. the two candidates who ran for the election triggered a lot of related public opinion where the most suitable candidate to become the president of the next period. Public opinion is generally one of the determining factors for presidential candidates who will later win the election. Presidential candidate debate is the efforts of the election commission to facilitate the presidential candidates to introduce their work programs to the public while building public opinion that they are the right people to become leaders of the next period. Although of course, this is not the only major factor that shapes public opinion. The purpose of this study is to summarize the opinions of the people voiced through social media related to the election of candidates for the Indonesian President and Vice President for the period 2019-2024 post debate on the presidential election. While the benefit is to help the community so that they can understand in a broader context such as what the public opinion about presidential candidates, especially on social media Twitter. The results of this study were presidential candidate Joko Widodo - Makruf Amin obtained a 25% positive sentiment, 4.5% negative sentiment and 70.5% neutral sentiment. while the Prabowo Subianto - Sandiaga Uno pair received a 5.1% positive sentiment, 2.5% negative sentiment and 92.4% neutral sentiment.

scholarly journals PENERAPAN ANALYTIC NETWORK PROCESS (ANP) DALAM MENENTUKAN PRESIDEN REPUBLIK INDONESIA BAGI GENERASI MILENIAL PADA PEMILU 2019

Infotekmesin ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (02) ◽  
pp. 96-102
Author(s):  
Lutfi Syafirullah ◽  
Annas Setiawan Prabowo
Keyword(s):  
Vice President ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Network Process ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Comparison Table ◽  
Main Factor

General elections or elections are one part of the democratic system to elect  representatives in the people's representative institutions. The Indonesian nation on April 17, 2019 will implement a mechanism for the succession of elections to determine the president for the period 20192023. This paper discusses the decision making to elect the 2019 RI presidential candidate. The author uses the Analytic Network Process (ANP) method and is assisted by super decision software to see the consistency values of each comparison table. This method is expected to be able to help all parties, especially the millennial generation in Indonesia, to find out what factors are taken into consideration in choosing RI 2019 presidential and vice presidential candidates. The object of the research is the Cilacap State Polytechnic student of the Informatics Engineering Department in 2018. that the main factor in choosing the president and vice president is  popularization and the Jokowi-Ma'ruf pair is a pair chosen by millennials because they are populist.

scholarly journals Simultaneous Elections and the Rise of Female Representation in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-72
Author(s):  
Luky Sandra Amalia ◽  
Aisah Putri Budiatri ◽  
Mouliza KD. Sweinstani ◽  
Atika Nur Kusumaningtyas ◽  
Esty Ekawati
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Institutional Innovation ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Legislative Elections ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Female Candidates ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Legislative Election

In the 2019 election, the proportion of women elected to Indonesia’s People’s Representative Assembly ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, DPR) increased significantly to almost 21 per cent. In this article, we ask whether an institutional innovation – the introduction of simultaneous presidential and legislative elections – contributed to this change. We examine the election results, demonstrating that, overall, women candidates did particularly well in provinces where the presidential candidate nominated by their party won a majority of the vote. Having established quantitatively a connection between results of the presidential elections and outcomes for women legislative candidates, we turn to our qualitative findings to seek a mechanism explaining this outcome. We argue that the simultaneous elections helped women candidates by easing their access to voters who supported one of the presidential candidates, but who were undecided on the legislative election. Rather than imposing additional burdens on female candidates, simultaneous elections assisted them.

The Changing Structure of Party Identification

1985 ◽  
Vol 18 (01) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
Laurily K. Epstein
Keyword(s):  
Party Identification ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
Popular Vote ◽  
Majority Party ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Democratic Presidential Candidate

However one wishes to characterize Walter Mondale's campaign for the presidency, his loss was only the latest in a series of Democratic presidential candidate defeats beginning in 1968. In 1968, Hubert Humphrey got 43 percent of the popular vote. In 1972, George McGovem received 38 percent of the popular vote. And in both 1980 and 1984, the Democratic presidential tickets got 41 percent of the popular vote. Only in 1976 did a Democratic presidential candidate receive a (very slim) majority of the popular votes cast. Indeed, Democratic presidential candidates have received only 42 percent of the total votes cast between 1968 and 1984.Although Democratic presidential candidates have not been faring well for 16 years, party identification has remained about the same—with the Democrats as the majority party. Until 1984. And that is what makes the 1984 election interesting, for in this election the voters finally seemed to change their party identification to correspond with what now appears to be their habit of electing Republican presidents.In 1980, when Jimmy Carter received the same proportion of the total votes cast as did Walter Mondale in 1984, self-styled Democrats were still in the majority. But, by 1984, Republicans and Democrats were at a virtual tie nationwide, as these figures from NBC News election day voter polls demonstrate.

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