scholarly journals Health in the 2018 Italian general election

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Guicciardi ◽  
M Quargnolo ◽  
G Moser ◽  
R D’Avenia ◽  
F Toth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Implementation Strategies ◽  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Social Relevance ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Health Related ◽  
General Elections

Abstract Background General elections represent a peculiar moment in which clear positions on relevant topics are more likely to emerge. Therefore, they may serve as a reference point to monitor policy development and to verify decision makers’ accountability. The aim of this study is to systematically examine the proposals on health issues in the manifestos of the 38 parties running in the 2018 Italian general election, comparing them with the contents shared on social media. Methods All the electoral manifestos published on the websites of each party and of the Italian Ministry of the Interior were collected and independently assessed by four evaluators. A list of 48 health themes grouped into 13 main domains into was then consensually created and used to classify the reported proposals. Parties’ official social media accounts (Facebook and Twitter) were subsequently screened for selected keywords to determine the frequency and the content of health-related posts. Results Thirty out of 38 parties included a specific section on health in their programmes or generally addressed healthcare topics. The most covered themes were health promotion and lifestyles, self-sufficiency of fragile populations, management of private healthcare and health workforce, although implementation strategies varied greatly and only in a few cases it was possible to compare them. On social media, health related posts represented less than 1% of the contents shared by any party during the election campaign. Conclusions In the 2018 Italian election campaign the majority of the parties’ manifestos explicitly addressed health issues but, apart from a few exceptions, significant differences were present in the themes and in the proposed solutions, mostly generic. On social media health was almost neglected. Despite its social relevance, health played a marginal role in the 2018 Italian election campaign.

scholarly journals Introduction (Special Edition – The Presidential Nomination Process)

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 289-291
Author(s):  
Wayne P. Steger
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Special Edition ◽  
Presidential Nomination ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Democratic Country

Understanding why certain candidates get nominated is an important aspect of political scientists. This topic is a narrow one and influences a wider variety of subjects such as the political parties, general elections, and even the extent to which the United States is a democratic country. Presidential nominees matter—they become the foremost spokesperson and the personified image of the party (Miller and Gronbeck 1994), the main selectors of issues and policies for their party’s general election campaign (Petrocik 1996; Tedesco 2001), a major force in defining the ideological direction of a political party (Herrera 1995), and candidates that voters select among in the general election. This volume is devoted to presidential nominations and the 2008 nomination specifically.

scholarly journals Christianising Edgar Chagwa Lungu: The Christian nation, social media presidential photography and 2016 election campaign

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chammah J Kaunda
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Christian Nation

This article investigates how the declaration of Zambia as a Christian nation (hereafter the Declaration), presidential photography and social media intersected during Edgar Lungu’s political campaign in the general election of 2016. It is framed within a missio-political theory to analyse qualitative material collected from January 2016 to February 2018 in Zambia. The missio-ethnography approach as an empirical missiological research which sought to analyse how the Declaration discourse has developed into a political ideology used to legitimized Lungu’s political power and moral authority among some Pentecostal-Charismatic religious sector.

scholarly journals The Malaysian General Elections of 2013: The Last Attempt at Secular-inclusive Nation-building?

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farish A. Noor
Keyword(s):  
Prime Minister ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
General Election ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Opposition Parties

This paper looks at the Malaysian General Election campaign of 2013, and focuses primarily on the 1Malaysia project that was foregrounded by the administration of Prime Minister Najib Razak. It compares the 1Malaysia project with other projects aimed at nation-building, such as the Wawasan 2020 project of former Prime Minister Mahathir and the Islam Hadari project of former Prime Minister Badawi; and asks if 1Malaysia was truly an attempt at building a sense of Malaysian nationhood based on universal citizenship regardless of race or religion; and it also considers the response to the 1Malaysia project that came from the opposition parties of the country. Malaysia has experienced a steady process of islamisation that dates back to the Mahathir era, and the question of whether the political domain of Malaysia has been overcome by religious-communitarian markers and values will be raised in the paper as well.

scholarly journals Conceived in Harlesden: Candidate-Centred Campaigning in British General Elections

2018 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Milazzo ◽  
Joshua Townsley
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Party Affiliation ◽  
Electoral Success ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Candidate Characteristics ◽  
General Elections

Abstract Recent decades have seen an increasing trend towards the personalisation of election campaigns, even in systems where candidates have few structural incentives to emphasise their personal appeal. In this article, we build on a growing literature that points to the importance of candidate characteristics in determining electoral success. Using a dataset composed of more than 3700 leaflets distributed during the 2015 and 2017 general elections, we explore the conditions under which messages emphasising the personal characteristics of prospective parliamentary candidates appear in British general election campaign materials. Even when we account for party affiliation, we find that there are important contextual and individual-level factors that predict the use of candidate-centred messaging.

scholarly journals Affect Analysis of Multilingual Tweets for Predicting Voting Behavior

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1768-1771
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
English Language ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Language Data ◽  
Regional Languages

Social media has been proved as wild card for its role in election campaign across the globe. It has been used for general election of India in year 2014 and year 2019 by political parties for election campaign. Thus social media provides opportunity for electoral prediction. Users from India use regional languages in addition to English language on social media. Multilingual data likely to give better prediction compared to single language data. Affect analysis gives deeper insight compared to sentiment analysis. This research study aims to predict voting behavior for 2019 general election of India using affect analysis of multilingual tweets. Three languages namely English, Hindi and Gujarati are used for this study. Volume-based method and machine learning algorithm based method are two approaches widely used in literature for electoral prediction. In this research study hybrid approach is used along with consideration of ratio of positive count and negative count of tweets. Experiment result shows efficacy of the proposed approach.

scholarly journals Deep Learning-Based Election Results Prediction Using Twitter Activity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haider Ali ◽  
Haleem Farman ◽  
Hikmat Yar ◽  
Zahid Khan ◽  
Shabana Habib ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
General Election ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Twitter Activity ◽  
The Stability

Abstract Nowadays, political parties have widely adopted social media for their party promotions and election campaigns. During the election, Twitter and other social media platforms are used for political coverage to promote the party and its candidates. This research discusses and estimates the stability of many volumetric social media approaches to forecast election results from social media activities. Numerous machine learning approaches are applied to opinions shared on social media for predicting election results. This paper presents a machine learning model based on sentiment analysis to predict Pakistan's general election results. In a general election, voters vote for their favorite party or candidate based on their personal interests. Social media has been extensively used for the campaign in Pakistan general election 2018. Using a machine learning technique, we provide a five-step process to analyze the overall election results, whether fair or unfair. The work is concluded with detailed experimental results and a discussion on the outcomes of sentiment analysis for real-world forecasting and approval for general elections in Pakistan.

scholarly journals Religion and the New Media: Discourses and Debates in the 2018 Fiji General Election Campaign

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Ryle ◽  
Jope Tarai
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Secular State

This article explores discourses and debates on secularism, religion, and politics in social media in connection with the 2018 Fiji general election campaign, and in interviews with leading figures in churches and religious organisations. It discusses how people responded to these issues. It shows that there is still a pervasive lack of clarity in the Fijian population as to what the terms Christian state, secular state, secularism, and secularisation mean, how people understand, discuss, and debate them, and how this lack of clarity was used politically during the campaign.

scholarly journals Penggunaan Buzzer Politik di Media Sosial Pada Masa Kampanya Pemilihan Umum

ADALAH ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayhan Naufaldi Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
General Election ◽  
Campaign Strategy ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Media Politics ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Abstract:The campaign is an activity that is part of the holding of a very crucial general election. In these activities, election participants took a variety of ways in order to gain the support of votes from the public, including by utilizing social media. In the campaign strategy on social media, political buzzer is a tool that is considered to be able to increase the popularity, electability and acceptability of election participants. Therefore, the existence of a political buzzer is urgently needed, so that legal arrangements regarding political buzzers must be clear in regulating it so that the use of social media by involving political buzzers does not deviate from the main objectives of the election itself.Keywords: Buzzer, Social Media, Politics, Campaigns and General Elections Abstrak:  Kampanye merupakan kegiatan yang menjadi bagian dari penyelenggaraan pemilihan umum (Pemilu) yang sangat krusial. Dalam kegiatan tersebut, peserta pemilu melakukan berbagai cara agar dapat memperoleh dukungan suara dari masyarakat, diantaranya dengan cara memanfaatkan media sosial. Dalam strategi kampanye di media sosial, buzzer politik menjadi alat yang dinilai dapat meningkatkan popularitas, elektabilitas dan akseptabilitas peserta pemilu. Maka dari itu, keberadaan buzzer politik menjadi sangat dibutuhkan, sehingga pengaturan hukum perihal buzzer politik pun harus jelas dalam mengatur hal tersebut agar pemanfaatan media sosial dengan melibatkan buzzer politik tidak menyimpang dari tujuan utama dari pemilu itu sendiri.Kata Kunci: Buzzer, Media Sosial, Politik, Kampanye dan Pemilihan Umum

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