PCD Journal
Vol 9 No 1 (2021): PCD Journal Volume 9 No. 1 2021

A New Approach for Allocating a New Party's Budget during an Election Campaign

Irit Talmor (Sir Harry Solomon School of Management)
Osnat Akirav (Western Galilee College)



Article Info

Publish Date
09 Jul 2021

Abstract

During pre-election campaigns, parties make great efforts to persuade constituents to vote for them. Usually, new parties have smaller budgets and fewer resources than veteran parties. Generally, the more heterogeneous the party’s electorate, the more critical the issue of resource allocation. This paper presents a method for new parties to efficiently allocate campaign advertising resources and maximise voters. The model developed uses the Pareto principle and multi-criteria approach, integrating the party’s confidential data together with official open-to-all data. We implemented the model on a specific new party during the intensive political period before the April 2019 elections in Israel, finding that the model produced clear and unbiased results, and this made it effective and user-friendly for strategy teams and campaign managers.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

PCD

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Social Sciences

Description

PCD Journal is an initiative to promote works and reports written in high-quality academic standard on the dynamics of power, conflict, and democracy in developing countries, particularly in South and Southeast Asia. Themes on practices of human rights, popular representation, and ...