Life of the Party: Social Networks, Public Attention, and the Presidential Nomination Process

• In Event: Parties, Campaigns, and Social Networks

Brief Overview

We add to our previous model using algorithms derived from party primary theories to model effects of candidate lead, base support and information decay on outcomes. We complete the model with super-nodes and system shocks and add empirical tests.

Authors

• Colin D. Swearingen, John Carroll University

• Linda Seiter, John Carroll University

• Elizabeth A. Stiles, John Carroll University