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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Congressional Election"”.
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Dissent From Bourbon On-Party Rule: The 1878 Georgia Fourth District Congressional Election
<p>The 1878 Georgia Fourth District Congressional Election demonstrated the persistence of the Bourbon Democrat movement. The campaign and election exemplified the techniques used by Bourbons to gain and maintain their influence. In this paper, three methods were focal points: the one-party system, …
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Access to the vote in the 2006 midterm election : evidence from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study
The 2000 and 2004 U.S. national elections were plagued by problems which caused a significant number of citizens to be effectively denied access to the vote. This paper uses data from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) public opinion poll to measure whether certain electoral …
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The Effects of Mass Media Consumption on Accuracy of Beliefs About The Candidates in a Local Congressional Election
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Political Agenda-Setting in Cable News as a Possible Technique for Securing an Audience Niche
… and MSNBC during the week preceding the 2006 congressional election were analyzed. First- and second-level agenda-setting theories are used to examine how long and in what way federal politicians are portrayed. The results indicate distinct differences in political presentations between the …
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Distortion and Revolution in Texas U.S. Congressional Redistricting Politics: 1972-2014
Over 42 years and 22 US congressional elections between 1972 and 2014, Texas evolved from a state controlled by the Democratic Party since Reconstruction to one dominated by the Republican Party. This thesis examines the relationship between measures of district compactness and changing …
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Re-reading the new right: risk, media, and rhetoric in Republican environmental policy
… contract with America, unveiled during The 1994 congressional election. A re-reading of these signs seeks to replace the individual as a subject in the role of reflexive agent in a process of modernization which rejects the reassertion of the new right’s design for a social structure of moral …
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Higher education institutions, voter registration, voter education, and voter participation: a study of college students in the 2016 presidential and 2018 mid-term congressional elections
During both the United States 2016 Presidential Election and the 2018 Mid-term Congressional Election, voter registration and voter participation rates showed significant improvements over previous trends in voters ages 18-29. This study aimed to understand the various environmental factors, campus …
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Party positions and the seats/votes relationship with ideological voters
… of incumbents who seek their own individual re-election. Politicians seek to win their own seats in the legislature, but they must run under a common party label. In both single-member district and proportional representation systems, equilibrium platforms are shown to diverge substantially, …
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An examination of congressional elections
… examines a number of issues that arise in U.S. Congressional elections. In the first chapter, I look at the source congressional campaign contributions. I show that the source of a campaign contribution is an im- portant factor in determining the effect the contribution has. Specifically I find …
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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
… have only focused on state and local elections leaving scholars to speculate if the findings of those analyses are applicable to congressional and presidential elections. Previous studies at the local level suggest that African American political representation has the potential to …
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Social Links Abroad: The Role of Social Identity Theory in the Formation of Public Opinion Towards U.S. Foreign Policy
… Affairs, survey data from the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, as well as an original survey experiment utilizing Qualtrics, I show the self-enhancement tactic known as racial solidarity increases the desire of different social groups as expressed through race to feel more warmly …
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Essays on Election
… levels. The first chapter focuses on judicial elections in Houston, while the last two chapters forecast the 2024 national election. This first chapter examines whether changes in local crime rates influence voter behavior in partisan judicial elections. Using precinct-level crime and election …