scholarly journals A New Approach for Allocating a New Party's Budget during an Election Campaign

PCD Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-45
Author(s):  
Irit Talmor ◽  
Osnat Osnat Akirav
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Pareto Principle ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
New Parties ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Confidential Data ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Campaign Advertising

During pre-election campaigns, parties make great efforts to persuade constituents to vote for them. Usually, new parties have smaller budgets and fewer resources than veteran parties. Generally, the more heterogeneous the party’s electorate, the more critical the issue of resource allocation. This paper presents a method for new parties to efficiently allocate campaign advertising resources and maximise voters. The model developed uses the Pareto principle and multi-criteria approach, integrating the party’s confidential data together with official open-to-all data. We implemented the model on a specific new party during the intensive political period before the April 2019 elections in Israel, finding that the model produced clear and unbiased results, and this made it effective and user-friendly for strategy teams and campaign managers.

scholarly journals Rethinking the funding of New Zealand’s election campaigns

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Geddis
Keyword(s):  
Labour Party ◽  
General Election ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Broadcast Time ◽  
The Law ◽  
Auditor General ◽  
Major Donors ◽  
Campaign Advertising

The 2005 general election campaign was notable not only for its close-fought nature, but also for a range of deeply concerning, and in some cases undoubtedly unlawful, behaviour by various electoral participants. The Labour Party exceeded the statutory maximum on its ‘election expenses’ by at least $418,603, primarily due to the costs associated with producing and distributing its pledge card to voters. Furthermore, the use of parliamentary funding to pay for this campaign material prompted a post-election review by the auditor-general, which revealed widespread misuse of this source of funds by a range of parties and individual MPs (Auditor-General, 2006). The National Party’s negligence in failing to account for GST when booking election broadcast time meant that it was able to screen some $112,000 more in campaign advertising than the law allowed. Both National and Labour, and to a lesser degree some smaller parties, used anonymous donations and trusts to shield the identity of their major donors, allowing hundreds of thousands of dollars to flow into their campaign coffers from hidden sources.

Midsurface Abstraction From 3D Solid Models for Engineering Analysis

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohsen Rezayat
Keyword(s):  
Feature Recognition ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Thin Sections ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Solid Models ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Plastic Parts ◽  
3D Solid ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Analysis Models

Abstract An integral part of implementing parallel product and process designs is simulation through numerical analysis. This simulation-driven design requires discretization of the 3D part in an appropriate manner. If the part is thin or has thin sections (e.g., plastic parts), then an analysis model with reduced dimensionality may be more accurate and economical than a standard 3D model. In addition, substantial simplification of some details in the design geometry may be beneficial and desirable in the analysis model. Unfortunately, the majority of CAD systems do not provide the means for abstraction of appropriate analysis models. In this paper we present a new approach, based on midsurface abstraction, which holds significant promise in simplifying simulation-driven design. The method is user-friendly because very little interaction is required to guide the software in its automatic creation of the desired analysis model. It is also robust because it handles typical parts with complex and interacting features. Application of the method for feature recognition and abstraction is also briefly discussed.

Free airtime of election committees in Poland compared with similar solutions in other countries. The attitude of Poles to free election broadcasts in the Polish public media

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-237
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Łukasik-Turecka
Keyword(s):  
Likert Scale ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Research Results ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Media ◽  
Similar Solutions ◽  
The Right

The principle of equal electoral opportunities is implemented, inter alia, by allocating free airtime to political entities. In Poland, like in many other countries, the authorized committees have the right to use the public media’s airtime free of charge during election campaigns. The present article’s objective is to show the Polish solutions in this domain compared with the regulations in other countries and to present the research results and their analysis concerning Poles’ attitude to free election broadcasts – including their assessment of the broadcasts as a source of knowledge about candidates and parties taking part in the election campaign. The studies were carried out based on the survey questionnaire, which was compiled using the five-level Likert scale. The sample was selected by the stratifiedquota method (N = 971). The conclusions resulting from the survey suggest the need to retain the regulation that enables political entities in Poland to use free election broadcasts during election campaigns. At the same time, they point out that it is necessary to seek more advantageous forms and content to put airtime to appropriate use during the campaign period.

scholarly journals Measuring portfolio salience using the Bradley–Terry model: An illustration with data from Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 205316801983208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Zucco ◽  
Mariana Batista ◽  
Timothy J. Power
Keyword(s):  
Paired Comparison ◽  
Objective Measures ◽  
Paired Comparisons ◽  
Difficult Case ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Budget Policy ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Proportionality Rule ◽  
Comparison Data

How do political actors value different portfolios? We propose a new approach to measuring portfolio salience by analysing paired comparisons using the Bradley–Terry model. Paired-comparison data are easy to collect using surveys that are user-friendly, rapid, and inexpensive. We implement the approach with serving legislators in Brazil, a particularly difficult case to assess portfolio salience due to the large number of cabinet positions. Our estimates of portfolio values are robust to variations in implementation of the method. Legislators and academics have broadly similar views of the relative worth of cabinet posts. Respondent valuations of portfolios deviate considerably from what would be predicted by objective measures such as budget, policy influence, and opportunities for patronage. Substantively, we show that portfolio salience varies greatly and affects the calculation of formateur advantage and coalescence/proportionality rule measures.

scholarly journals Urban Policy in Election Campaigns – The Case of the Presidents of the Biggest Cities of Lower Silesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59
Author(s):  
Kamil Glinka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Marketing Activity ◽  
Marketing Actions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Lower Silesia

Abstract The main aim of the article is to present the relationship between urban policy and the marketing activity of the presidents of Wrocław, Wałbrzych, Legnica, and Jelenia Góra during the period of the 2014 local government election campaign. Analysis of the marketing activity of the presidents, conducted via chosen social media, enables presentation of the most important conditions and reasons for using urban policy in the competition for the support of citizens – potential voters. First, it will show that the marketing actions of a president during an election campaign are not the means of creating the image of a city but gaining the support of voters. Second, the analysis will prove that the election message constructed by presidents is based on the actions conducted in the various areas of urban policy.

scholarly journals ‘The enemy within’: Campaign attention and motivated reasoning in voter perceptions of intra-party conflict

2020 ◽  
pp. 135406882090640
Author(s):  
Carolina Plescia ◽  
Sylvia Kritzinger ◽  
Jakob-Moritz Eberl
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Motivated Reasoning ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Party Strategies ◽  
Voter Perceptions ◽  
Broad Interest ◽  
Over Time

In spite of broad interest in internal party dynamics, with previous literature relatedly demonstrating that voters are not oblivious to party infighting, very little attention has been paid to the antecedents of voter perceptions of intra-party conflict. This article addresses this research deficit with the support of empirical evidence gathered over the course of the 2017 Austrian national election campaign. The study examines variations in perceived intra-party conflict over time, both across parties and within the same party. We find that although voter perceptions largely mirror actual distinctions in intra-party fighting, conspicuous individual-level variations can also be identified owing to attention to the election campaign and motivated reasoning in information processing. These results have important consequences for our understanding of voter perceptions of intra-party conflict and the role of election campaigns, with potential implications for party strategies during election campaigns.

scholarly journals Q-ING FOR HEALTH-A NEW APPROACH TO ELICITING THE PUBLIC'S VIEWS ON HEALTH CARE RESOURCE ALLOCATION

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Baker ◽  
John Wildman ◽  
Helen Mason ◽  
Cam Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Health Care Resource ◽  
New Approach

Graph-based loop extraction for automatic analysis of a water pipe distribution network and comparison with EPANET

SIMULATION ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 93 (11) ◽  
pp. 921-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manish Kumar Mishra ◽  
Kailash Jha
Keyword(s):  
Distribution Network ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Water Pipe ◽  
Breadth First Search ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Flow Adjustment ◽  
Automatic Pressure ◽  
Pressure Calculation ◽  
Efficient Data ◽  
User Friendly

This study introduces a new approach for automatic water pipe distribution network analysis by four integrated algorithms using graph theory, which are algorithms of minimal loop extraction, automatic initialization, automatic updating of initial discharges, and automatic pressure calculation at nodes. Object-oriented concepts have been used to design the algorithms for efficient data handling. The present integrated approach reduces the dependency of different processes involved in the analysis. The nested breadth first search traversal is used in the first algorithm to extract the loops without subdividing the graphical network. The initialization of pipes in loops is performed by satisfying the continuity equation at nodes in the second algorithm. The initialization, in the loop, is done in such a way that the adjacent loop will carry the residual discharge. Friction in the pipes is calculated iteratively for all flow types. Updating of discharge in pipes is according to the simultaneous loop flow adjustment method in the third algorithm. Initial discharges in the pipes of the loop in network are updated by corrective discharge in the loop according to the direction. The algorithm of nodal pressure calculation is done in the fourth algorithm, which is based on the energy equation in terms of pressure on the reference node. The results obtained by the proposed work are matched with EPANET software, in which the graphical display of the network is more user friendly and has the desired accuracy.

scholarly journals ELECTIONS-2021: ON THE ASSESSMENT OF THE ELECTORAL PROSPECTS OF NEW POLITICAL PARTIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
D.A EZHOV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Election Campaign ◽  
New Parties ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Regional Elections

The article assesses the electoral prospects of new political parties registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in 2020, on the eve of the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, scheduled for September 2021. Based on the results of regional elections held on a single voting day on September 13, 2020, party rhetoric and documents, the author consistently characterizes the electoral potential of the political parties such as «New People», «For Truth», «Green Alternative», and «Direct Democracy Party». The author's judgments are based on the hypothesis that the current electoral potential of new parties, which is fixed at a relatively low level, does not allow us to consider them as competitive and independent subjects in the election campaign at the start of the campaign. The likelihood of certain new parties receiving deputy mandates due to the victory of their candidates in single-mandate constituencies is emphasized. Special attention is paid to the consideration of methods of forming a pool of supporters of new political parties, determined by the specifics of their functioning.

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