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Showing 1 to 20 of 98 for “"Ballot"”.
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Ballot Readability and Plain Language
… to answer the following questions regarding ballot readability and plain language:</p> <ol> <li>Do voters distinguish the difference between traditionally composed ballots and plain language ballots?</li> <li>Do voters have a preference between conventional worded ballots and reworded ballot …
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The Impact of a Ballot Education Program on Arkansas Voters
… has educated Arkansas voters about statewide ballot issues for 10 years. The ballot issue education program, was evaluated during the 2014 election cycle to determine the program’s impact on voters. This descriptive study sought to describe program participants, to determine knowledge transfer …
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Ballot box and tinder box : can electoral engineering save multiethnic democracy?
The objective of this dissertation is to systematize the existing hypotheses in the electoral engineering literature and to test them in a set of selected case studies in order to answer a central question: does the electoral system affect the structure of political parties in ethnically divided …
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Elections Have Consequences: Moral Value Foundations Ensure Gridlock through the Ballot Box
<p>In the midst of unprecedented partisan polarization in the voting public and congressional gridlock in Washington, research in moral psychology has implicated reliance on differing moral value foundations between liberals and conservatives as a determinant of partisan divides. While Moral …
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Teacher union involvement in the English for the Children ballot initiative campaigns
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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The Usability Implications of Long Ballot Content for Paper, Electronic, and Mobile Voting Systems
… States presidential election over 131 million ballots were cast. A substantial fraction of those ballots, approximately 23 million (17.5%), were cast as absentee ballots either domestically or by overseas and military citizens (EAC, 2008). These numbers demonstrate that a demand exists in the …
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An Exploration of Efforts to Re-Define the Drug Problem Through State Ballot Measures
… has increasingly been challenged through state ballot measures introduced via the initiative process. While only eight percent of ballot measures historically are approved by voters (Initiative and Referendum Institute 2004), half of the 28 state ballot measures on illegal drugs have been …
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The Nexus between the Ballot and Bullet: Popular Support for the PKK and Post-election Violence in Turkey
This study examines the relationship between popular support for the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK), which is an ethnic insurgent and terrorist organization mainly operating in Turkey, and its terrorist activities during the pre-and post-election periods in Turkey . Popular support has been measured …
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The referendum lighthouse: how state-level initiatives drive voter turnout
This thesis examines the use of ballot initiatives at the state level to determine whether the presence of certain types of ballot initiatives cause an increase in voter turnout at the state level. This study is unique in that rather than focusing on individual level voting behavior to explain why …
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The Politics of Persuasion: Testing the Power of Local Elites
… had a significant influence on the success of a ballot measure: opposition by minority leaders, citizen groups, and established groups had no significant affect on the fate of the ballot measures. I conclude that business groups can successfully shepherd pro-business proposals through the …
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Environmentalism and Environmental Constitutional Ballot Initiatives in Florida: The Elements of Support for Amendment One in 2014 in the Context of Current Environmental Attitudes.
… opposition for a specific Florida constitutional ballot proposition on environmental land conservative acquisition reflect partisan and gender divides, and the impact of attitudes regarding an unpopular elected national official. Environmentalism appears to be further evidence of the “Big Sort” in …
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A critique on strike ballots in South Africa
… Act (LRA). The amendment stated that the "ballot" must now include any system of voting by members of the trade union that is recorded and is in secret. The Department of Labour has cautioned trade unions and employers' organisations to use the 180-day transitional period from the …
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Advances in cryptographic voting systems
… techniques for implementing verifiable, secret-ballot elections. We present the power of cryptographic voting, in particular its ability to successfully achieve both verifiability and ballot secrecy, a combination that cannot be achieved by other means. We review a large portion of the …
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Voter participation in nineteenth century British parliamentary elections
… century British elections. Before the secret ballot was introduced, votes of an individual were public record, making it easy to monitor votes case by a paid voter. After the secret ballot was introduced, monitoring paid voters was difficult, but it was still easy to monitor paid abstainers. …
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Gender Stereotypes and Candidate Evaluation
… The record-setting number of women on the ballot translated into a new high-water mark for the descriptive representation of women in Congress. While it is clear that female candidates were more successful in getting on the ballot during this election cycle than ever before, what remains …
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Who Really Votes? An Examination of Differential Voting Participation
… in some contests, but not others on the same ballot. Using aggregate voting data, simulated election experiments and survey data, I endeavor to establish that differential voting participation is indeed worthy of additional study and to analyze various aspects of differential voting …
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Essays on Empirical Political Economy
… the discontinuous allocation of single- and dual-ballot electoral rules across mayoral elections in Brazil, I compare the quality of politicians fielded and elected in these systems. In general, dual-ballot candidates from major parties are more politically experienced. This experience may be …
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