2013 Proceeding- Program Chairs:
- Ingmar Weber,
- Ana-Maria Popescu,
- Marco Pennacchiotti
It is our pleasure to welcome you to the second edition of the Politics, Elections and Data workshop (PLEAD at CIKM 2013). The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working at the intersection of social network analysis, computational social science and political science, to share and discuss their ideas in a common forum; and to inspire further developments in this growing, fascinating field of computational political science.
The call for papers attracted submissions from researchers in different areas and from different countries, which underscores the wide appeal of computational political science. The program committee accepted 3 papers addressing the relationship between tweets and votes in 2009 Federal Election in Germany, political polarization online in the context of the French and US presidential elections and finally, early efforts for multi-cycle forecasting of congressional elections with social media.
In addition, the program includes three keynotes from speakers with experience in modern campaigning, academic political science and media issues: Rayid Ghani (former Chief Scientist at Obama for America 2012), Justin Grimmer (Assistant Professor, Political Science, Stanford University) and Tarun Wadhwa (writer, researcher, entrepreneur, Forbes contributor).
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The representative's problem: how legislators use communication to secure constituent support
In a representative democracy elected officials face what I call the representative's problem. Elected officials work in Washington to provide representation, yet constituents lack the incentive and capacity to track what their representative does in ...
Privacy, accountability, and access in the age of the personalized campaign
In the last eight years, there has been little progress made on updating our nation's outdated and ineffective privacy laws. While the cost of data has plummeted and entire new industries have been created around storing, analyzing, and sorting large ...
Tweets and votes, a special relationship: the 2009 federal election in germany
As the microblogging service Twitter becomes an increasingly popular tool for politicians and general users to comment on and discuss politics, researchers increasingly turn to the relationship between tweets mentioning parties or candidates and their ...
Partisan alignments and political polarization online: a computational approach to understanding the french and US presidential elections
With the advent of Twitter and the ability to collect large datasets from this technology, researchers have the opportunity to analyze political participation in cross-national electoral contexts. This paper capitalizes on this capability to examine ...
Multi-cycle forecasting of congressional elections with social media
Twitter has become a controversial medium for election forecasting. We provide further evidence that simplistic forecasting methods do not perform well on forward-looking forecasts. We introduce a new estimator that models the language of campaign-...
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