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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Congressional Districts"”.
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The Impact Of Black Political Representation On The Racial Attitudes, Policy Preferences, And Vote Choice Of Whites In Minority Majority Congressional Districts
… threaten the future of minority majority districts, it is important to gain better insight into how black representation might impact the white community. Prior studies that do examine how whites react to African American political representation have only focused on state and local …
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Migration, Polarization, and Sorting in the American Electorate
… prob- abilities of party identification in U.S. congressional districts among migrants and non-migrants.</p><p>Based on an empirical application using the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Elec- tion Study, I find that a significant number of district satisfy the sorting condition. Aa multinomial …
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Do Social Values Trump Economics for Wealthy Voters: An Empirical Analysis of "Trading and Voting"
… an index of economic and social variables within congressional districts compared to the district’s vote for Trump in the election. Looking at wealthier districts where voters are more likely to have investments, I find that only variables relating to the social values of a district are …
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William Colmer and the Politics of the New Deal Labor Legislation 1933-1940
… set District Six apart from other Mississippi congressional districts. While the conservatism of Colmer's later career has been well documented, his earliest years in Congress have not. This thesis will focus on the liberal Bill Colmer, and his record regarding labor legislation helps measure …
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Political Consequences of Reapportionment on the Tenth Legislative District of Washington State
… only three different counties and legislative districts, but three different congressional districts as well. Each section, Whidbey Island, Camano Island, Bainbridge Island and the Northern part of the Kitsap Peninsula, can be observed both as a separate unit and as a member of an entire …
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Applications of Compter Vision: Skyline Extraction and Congressional Districting = A gépi látás alkalmazásai: skyline-kiemelés és választókerület-szabdalás
… problems from the fields of computer vision and congressional districting. The connection between the two seemingly distant subjects is image processing, which can be applied for both skyline extraction and circularity measurement. Hiking applications have a serious problem with the sensor …
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Political contributions, voter turnout, and the effects of redistricting
… redrawing of the geographic boundaries of U.S. Congressional Districts every 10 years after the completion of the U.S. Census. In both these cases, more competitive elections lead to more individual contributions, and the evidence suggests campaign contributions to different political campaigns …
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Soil Moisture-driven Drought Evaluation under Present and Future Conditions
… analysis for PLANning) model for the several congressional districts in Virginia. The result indicated that increases in agricultural drought in the future would lead to decreases in agricultural productions and job losses. Finally, a coupled framework using the VIC and MODFLOW models is …
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Iowa statewide voting patterns:1891-1912: naturalization does not create voting citizens
… the geologic regions were divided to form eleven congressional districts whose voting outcomes marginalized some groups and emphasized others. Political divisions based on population count crosscut the circumstances of location, rearranging the distribution of demographics and, thus, votes.</p> …
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Interest Representation as a Clash of Unequal Allies
… that interests with a presence across more congressional districts stand a better chance of having legislative allies on their key committees. It also reveals that interests with greater amounts of leverage over jobs and economic investment will be better positioned to win more allies on key …