'Where Have All Researchers Gone?'Use and Abuse of Polls for the 2010 Elections in Tanzania

AB Makulilo - International Journal of Peace and Development …, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
More than any other period in the history of Tanzania since the introduction of multipartism in
1992, opinion polls for the 2010 general elections were highly disputed by stakeholders on …

Partisan divide on war and the economy: Presidential approval of GW Bush

GT Fox - Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examines the influence of 9/11, the Iraq War, the economy, and the coalition-of-
minorities on presidential approval of GW Bush across partisan subgroups and aggregate …

Forecasting the 2020 and 2024 US presidential elections

DA Walker - Journal of Forecasting, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract American popular and Electoral College presidential elections are forecast for 2020
and 2024, employing auto‐regressive time series and cross‐section probit models …

Using prediction markets of market scoring rule to forecast infectious diseases: a case study in Taiwan

C Tung, TC Chou, J Lin - BMC Public Health, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background The Taiwan CDC relied on the historical average number of disease
cases or rate (AVG) to depict the trend of epidemic diseases in Taiwan. By comparing the …

The response of US equity values to the 2004 presidential election

MG Ferri - Journal of Applied Finance (Formerly Financial …, 2008 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper analyzes changes in US equity values around the 2004 presidential election. At
4: 00 PM on November 2, trading in George Bush's victory contract on Tradesports. com …

It's the economy, and then some: modeling the presidential vote with state panel data

LH Kahane - Public Choice, 2009 - Springer
Using data for the 50 US states for presidential elections from 1972 to 2004 two theories for
determining state voting outcomes are considered jointly: the 'economy matters' and 'home …

Determinants of county-level voting patterns in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections

LH Kahane - Applied Economics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
County-level data are used to estimate the incumbent-party share of the two-party vote in the
2012 and the 2016 US Presidential elections. Using a 'seemingly unrelated …

Poll-" pollution"?: The politics of numbers in the 2013 elections in Kenya

AB Makulilo - The African Review: A Journal of African Politics …, 2013 - JSTOR
The 2013 opinion polls for the general elections in Kenya were discredited by politicians,
academics and the general public as partisan. This was despite the enactment of the …

The determinants of the vote for Trump: an analysis of Texas 2016 primary results

RV Adkisson, J Peach - Applied Economics Letters, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This article analyses the 2016 primary vote for Donald Trump in Texas. Much of Trump's
campaign rhetoric has been anti-immigrant. A major Trump campaign theme was his …

User adoption of wisdom of crowd: usage and performance of prediction market system

EY Li, CY Tung, SH Chang - International Journal of …, 2015 - inderscienceonline.com
Prediction markets have been adopted to forecast events (trends) and manage risks related
to the events in different projects. This paper scrutinises the first prediction market system …