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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"American public opinion"”.
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PREJUDICE TOWARD MUSLIM AMERICANS AND AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION
… question: What explains prejudice toward Muslim Americans in contemporary American society? Through a new theoretical framework --- the ``Band of Others,'' --- I empirically show that attitudes toward Muslim Americans follow an ethnocentric pattern. Those who dislike other minorities such as …
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American public opinion relating to the Roosevelt court proposal of 1937
… States. This proposal brought forth a surge of public opinion throughout the nation. Sharp divisions of opinion occurred concerning the merits of the President's suggested reform</p><p>The purpose of this study to dermine, (1) the reactions of the electorate to the proposal; (2) the reactions of …
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Testing American public opinion on the work of the United Nations
What do Americans think about the United Nations? Social scientists have put forward an array of viewpoints on the subject, focusing on such things as partisan differences in the attitudes of Americans towards the work of the UN to public skepticism of the organization’s objectives and …
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The U.S. Office of War Information and American public opinion during World War II, 1939-1945
… form, they are to obtain it, or in other words, public opinion can determine ends, but is less fit to examine and select means to those ends. (James Bryce, <em>The American Commonwealth</em> Vol. I, p. 361)</blockquote> <p>This study examines the United States government’s domestic information …
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Narrative Characteristics in Refugee Discourse: An Analysis of American Public Opinion on Afghan Refugee Crisis After the Taliban Takeover
… regarding these events, especially potential opinion shifts over time and the effect social media posts by established U.S. legislators might have had on online public perception. To this end, we investigate two datasets on the war in Afghanistan, consisting of Twitter posts by self-identified …
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America Looks at the Hungarian Revolution
In a democracy, public opinion shapes policies or at least influences them. American public opinion is shaped by the conditions in which Americans live. Americans have always been sympathetic toward revolutions in countries where democracy, as they understand it, is not present. This often …
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A Comparative Study of America's Entries into World War I and World War II.
… and World War II. Research was also conducted on public opinion.</p><p> In World War I, German actions angered Wilson and segments of the American public, persuading Wilson to ask for a declaration of war. While German aggression shaped American opinion in World War II, Japanese action forced the …
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Making the case for space: employing political communication to set domestic and international policy
… these questions. The first article focuses on American public opinion of space, the second deals with how space policy is set in the United States between the Executive and Legislative branches, while the third analyzes the role of the United States in governing space as a global commons, and …
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COP TOPICS: TOPIC MODELING-ASSISTED DISCOVERIES OF POLICE-RELATED THEMES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN JOURNALISTIC TEXTS
… scholars and researchers for insights into public opinion and perceptions. In recent years, scholars have been examining African-American authored periodicals to obtain similar insights. Hearkening back to the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement in the United States, the highly-publicized …
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Awards and public perception: exploring the relationship between the evolution of American military awards and the changing American public
… military is a tradition dating back to the American Revolutionary War. Since their inception, awards have been either adapted or created to suit the needs of the military of the time. Common among these needs are attempts to influence the American people’s perception of the government and …
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The Role of Winston Churchill in the First World War
… war. I have brought out his connections with American life through his family, his books and lectures, and his work as munitions minister. I have tried to show that this has affected American public opinion in favor of Britain.</p> <p>Certain questions have been strongly disputed as to his …
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Putting the winner-loser effect in context: presidentialism & democracy in the Americas
… cycle. Using survey data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP), I execute a comparative study of the winner-loser effect across 18 countries from North, Central, and South America. In total, this study includes fifteen dependent variables at the individual level to …
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Voting for Corruption: How Poverty and Inequality Undermine Democratic Accountability in Latin America
… the empirical implication of my theory using public opinion data from fifty-eight surveys collected in eighteen Latin American countries from 2004 to 2010 by the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP). I analyze this data in conjunction with survey-level indicators of corruption, …
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Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion on Human Evolution
… of evolution has long generated controversy in American society, but Americans’ attitudes about human evolution are often neglected in studies of “culture wars” and the nature of mass belief systems more generally (Berkman and Plutzer 2010; Freeland and Houston 2009). Gallup and other survey …