@article{van der eijk_2020, 
  title={SSHOC D 9.6 Demarcation Report of Electoral Studies User Community}, 
  DOI={10.5281/zenodo.3725823}, 
  abstractNote={This report is Deliverable D9.6 of the SSHOC project. It provides a precondition for subsequent reports<br> D9.7 (Design and Planning of a Knowledge Graph), and D9.9 (Production of a user validated Knowledge<br> Graph). Knowledge graphs are infrastructural tools, in the form of models of knowledge in a<br> substantive domain that connect otherwise isolated silos of information about, for example,<br> publications, data-sets, events, people, tools, etc. They allow the identification of relationships between<br> the objects in these different silos that would otherwise be difficult to detect. Knowledge graphs are<br> therefore potentially important aspects of the infrastructure that SSHOC aims to develop for the social<br> sciences and humanities, and that would promote re-purposing and re-use of scientific publications,<br> data and analytical results; multidisciplinary collaboration; and increase the potential for societal<br> impact.<br> WP9 is tasked with the development of a knowledge graph in the field of electoral studies. This<br> development requires first of all a clear description and demarcation of this subtantive field and its<br> user community, which will be provided in this report.<br> The definition and demarcation is achieved by elaborating key aspects of the field. These aspects are<br> discussed in subsections 2.2 – 2.6 of this report, and relate to, respectively, the varieties of elections,<br> electoral outcomes, candidates and voters, rules of the game, communications and comparative<br> approaches that are characteristic for the field, separately as well as in their possible combinations.<br> After having defined the field in terms of its distinctive aspects, the question is addressed how to<br> identify and reach its important user communities. It is argued that this can only be achieved through<br> organisational features of such user communities, which can be located in, respectively, professional<br> organisations, dedicated scholarly conferences, dedicated publication outlets, and dedic [...]}, 
  publisher={Zenodo}, 
  author={Van der Eijk, Cees}, 
  year={2020}, 
  month={Mar}
  }