Essays about: "Voter Manipulation"

Found 4 essays containing the words Voter Manipulation.

  1. 1. Identifying and Understanding Anti-Immigration Disinformation : a case study of the 2018 Swedish national elections

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Laura Asperholm Hedlund; [2019]
    Keywords : disinformation; immigration; immigrants; elections; media; far-right; populism; polarization;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to understand to what extent and how anti-immigration disinformation was utilised in Swedish online news media before the 2018 Swedish national elections. Disinformation is intentionally misleading or false information that benefits the creator and aims to influence how people think, feel and act regarding a certain issue. READ MORE

  3. 2. Your Election, but Whose Choice? - A Study of the Applicability of the Principle of Non-intervention to Foreign Electoral Cyber Interference Aiming to Manipulate Voting Behaviour

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten

    Author : Victoria Bertilsson; [2019]
    Keywords : Public International Law; Non-intervention; Electoral Cyber Intervention; Voter Manipulation; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Electoral cyber interference aiming to manipulate voting behaviour is becoming increasingly sophisticated, which creates a risk of the interference undermining the trust in the democratic process with declining voter turnout as a result. The interference could potentially also affect the outcome of elections. READ MORE

  4. 3. When censoring anti-immigration attitudes backfires - The impact of reactance and censorship on political attitudes

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

    Author : Adrian Taleny; [2017]
    Keywords : Censorship; Psychological Reactance; Immigration; Sweden Democrats; Populism; Social Capital; Rejection Sensitivity; Trait Reactance; System Justification.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Anti-immigration movements are currently enjoying electoral success around the world, despite attempts by incumbent parties to mitigate their influence on voters. This seeming paradox is the main focus of this paper, aiming to investigate whether attempts censor and ostracize antiimmigration attitudes actually mitigate their influence or not. READ MORE

  5. 4. AI as a Threat to Democracy : Towards an Empirically Grounded Theory

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Visar Berisha; [2017]
    Keywords : AI; artificial; intelligence; demokrati; democracy; threat; elections; machine learning; challenges; legitimacy; fair; AI; artificiell; intelligens; maskininlärning; demokrati; val; hot; legitimitet;

    Abstract : Artificial intelligence has in recent years taken center stage in the technological development. Major corporations, operating in a variety of economic sectors, are investing heavily in AI in order to stay competitive in the years and decades to come. READ MORE