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The science and art of winning elections brings together virtually all disciplines of knowledge – ranging from social sciences to business management to technology. White papers on politics and elections generated by academia, think tanks, industry and such, serve to highlight the theory that could assist the practitioners to design and execute winning campaigns.

The papers below have been especially compiled to bring an eclectic understanding of how technology is impacting and can be used for campaigning worldwide. Topics include  online buzz and blogs from the US, the politics of SMS in China, Internet elections from Korea, the use of mobile technology during the elections in Kenya, customer relationship management (CRM) and voter relationship management(VRM), social network dynamics and participatory politics and more.
 
 
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The internet and the 2008 election
 Pew Internet & American Life Project
 BUZZ, BLOGS, AND BEYOND: The Internet and the National Discourse in the Fall of 2004  Pew Internet & American Life Project
 Protest Email as Alternative Media in the 2004 U.S. Presidential Campaign  University of Westminster
 Best Practices for Political Advertising Online  Institute for Politics, Democracy & the  Internet
 The Colbert Bump in Campaign Donations: More Truthful than Truthy  University of California
 Crawling The Web: Discovery And Maintenance of Large-Scale Web Data  Standford University
 Efficient Crawling Through URL Ordering  Standford University
 Improve citizen services and relationship management  Microsoft
 The 2007 Australian Federal Election on the Internet  National Library of Australia
 Use of Mobile Technology During The Recent General Elections in Kenya  Peace and Development Trust- Kenya
 From resource discovery to knowledge discovery on the internet  Simon Fraser University
 The Power of Thumbs: The Politics of SMS in Urban China  University of Melbourne
 Text Messaging as a Violence-Prevention Tool (Kenya)  United Nations Foundation
 Authoritative Sources in a Hyperlinked Environment  Cornell University
 The Influence of Television and Radio Advertising on Candidate Evaluations  Stanford University
 White Paper Internet Korea 2005  United Nations Public Administratin Network
 Mixing Money and Politics: How Campaign Finance affects Democratic Governance in the  U.S.  United Nations Development Programme
 Staging The "Mobile Phone Carnival": A political economy of the sms culture in China  Simon Fraser University
 Consumer-Generated Media (CGM) 101 Word-of-Mouth in the Age of the Web-Fortified  Consumer  Nielson Buzzmetrics
 New elements of Hungarian political campaign strategies  Hungarian Academy of Sciences
 The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web  Old Dominion University
 Mapping Media Influence on the Electoral Process  University of Calgarly
 The number of Americans citing the internet as the source of most of their political news ...  Pew Internet & American Life Project
 The Threat of Political Phishing  Political Phishing
 It's the Conversations, Stupid !  Orgnet
 Online Structure for Political Action: Exploring Presidential Campaign Web Sites ...  SUNY Institute of Technology
 Shaping the Web: Why the politics of search engines matters  New York University
 Social Network Dynamics and Participatory Politics  Extreme democracy
 Social Media Monitoring and Analysis  Nielson Buzzmetrics
 Taxonomy of the Political Campaign  Griffith University
 The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election: Divided They Blog  Blog Pulse
 BARACK OBAMA: Connecting and Empowering All Americans Through Technology and  Innovation  BarackObama.com
 The Civic Potential of Video Games  CERG / Mills College
 A Research Paper on Cyberculture and Virtual Politics  University of Philippines
 Effective Communication in Virtual Adversarial Collaborative Communities  The Journal of Community Informatics
 Nations in Cyber Space
 Thomas Hyland Ericksen
 Talking From The Inside Out: The Rise of Employee Bloggers
 Edelman and Intelliseek
 Old Politics, New Media: Parliament, the Public and the Internet  eSociety
 The Internet and Campaign 2004  Pew Internet & American Life Project
 Understanding the Political Influence of Blogs  Institute for Politics, Democracy & the  Internet
 Re-Writing Politics: Consumerist messages and the emergence of a new style of political  reporting in India  Ursula Rao
 Technology and Politics: Incentives for Youth Participation  Stanford University
 2006 Korea Internet White Paper  National Internet Development Agency of  Korea
 The Power and Politics of Blogs  University of Toronto Scarborough
 Electronic Democracy? The Impact of New Communications Technologies on Australian  Democracy  The Australian National University
 Experimental Designs for Political Communication Research: From Shopping Malls to the  Internet  Stanford University
 Parties, Candidates and CitizensOn-Line: Studies of Politics on the Internet
 Kim Strandberg
 Chasing the Youth Vote  Dylan Kissane
 Campaign Communication and the Internet Party Strategy and Voter Use in 2005  Norwegian Election Campaign
 Institutt for Samfunnsforskning
 Online Participation in the UK: Testing a ‘Contextualised’ Model of Internet Effects  Political Studies Association
 Political Communications  Harvard University
 Politics on the Net  Örebro University
 Political Communications Web Archiving: Addressing Typology and Timing for Selection,  Preservation and Access  New York University Libraries
 21st Century Soapboxes? MPs and their Blogs
 University of Oxford
 The promise and perils of ‘virtual representation’: The public view  eSociety
 Old and New Media: Blogs in the third age of political communication.  University of Queensland
 Weblogs as a Subgenre of Political Communication / Marketing  University of Castilla-La Mancha
 "From Weird to Wired": MPs, the Internet and Representative Politics in the UK  University of Salford
 Of windows, triangles and loops: the political economy of the e-democracy discourse  University of Chester
 WebML: Querying the World-Wide Web for Resources and Knowledge  Simon Fraser University
 Politics and Technology Converge: Case Studies on the Effects of Regulatory Reform on VSAT ...  Online Journal of Space Communication
 Taking another look at CRM  TechRepublic
 Evaluating the Options for Vertical Hosted CRM  Beagle Research Group
 Choosing the Best CRM for Your Organization  Oracle
 Online Politics 101
 epolitics
Drupal Nation: Software to Power the Left DigiDave
 Technology and Campaigns
Costas Panagopoulo
 Korean Internet Industry  Ripe 51
 Korea Internet White Paper  NIDA  Agency of Korea
 Rethinking the Digital Age  Faye Ginsburg
 Why is Interest in Mass Media Anthropology Growing?
 University of Chile
Gujarat's Goebbels: Role of Old and New Media ...
 Unnikrishnan PV & Maxmillan Martin
Putting Citizens First  Tech President
New Technologies and Political Communication: A Case Study of a Local Election Campaign  All Academic Research
 Post-Election Voter Engagement  Pew Internet & American Life Project
 Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Government  the Federal Web Managers Council
 Social Media and the Federal Government: Perceived and Real Barriers and Potential Solutions  the Federal Web Managers Council
 Digitally Networked Technology in Kenya’s 2007–2008 Post-Election Crisis The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
 Digital Government through Social Networks: A Natural Alliance?  Britt Blaser, David Weinberger, Joe Trippi
 Digital Resistance and the Orange Revolution  iRevolution
 Post-Election Voter Engagement  Pew Internet & American Life Project
 Optimizing The SMS Network  TMCnet
 A study of Party Financing Practices in 22 countries  National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
 Leading a Company to Embrace and Capitalize on Innovation  Exec Bluprints
 Roadmap to Success: Driving Bottom-Line Results with People Performance  Sucess Factors
The Pillars of Employee Performance Management
 SumTotal
 

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