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Showing 1 to 20 of 140 for “"Democrats"”.
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Evangelical Democrats and role conflict.
… the GOP could present a dilemma for Evangelical Democrats, whose religious and political identities are perceived by many to be in conflict with one another. The present study tests whether Evangelical Democrats seek to avoid role conflict by having lower levels of investment in either the …
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The Twilight of the Texas Democrats: The 1978 Governor's Race
This dissertation examines the results and strategies used in the 1978 Texas gubernatorial election to determine what issues, demographics, and campaign strategies led the Republican Party nominee, Dallas businessman Bill Clements, to defeat the Democratic nominee, Attorney General John Hill, to …
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The rise of the Reagan Democrats in Warren, Michigan, 1964-1984
… suburb of Warren, Michigan, as formerly loyal Democrats defected to vote for George Wallace, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. This study examines three controversies that contributed to this "Democratic defection." The first was the 1970 effort by federal officials to require open housing in …
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Ideological Differences Between Whigs, Republicans and Democrats in Iowa, 1838-1860: Real or Illusory?
The problem. There has long been historical controversy surrounding political parties of the Jacksonian period. This thesis focuses on Iowa's political parties in the legislative process to determine whether there is ideological concensus or conflict on selected issues in the period from 1838 to …
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Populism as resonance machine: Affect, the Sweden Democrats, and the 2018 Swedish General Election
… of the nationalist populist party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), with the 2018 Swedish General Election – in which SD grew more than any other party – as my core focus. Adopting an affectively conscientious approach, I analyse the machinery, musterings and mobilisations that fuel populism’s …
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Are We Out of the Woods Yet? How Democrats and Progressives Need to Rethink their Message Framework
… and their wellbeing to win elections. What do Democrats and progressives need to fix so they can deliver better messages? To better understand the dynamics that impact the Democratic Party’s capacity to create messaging I believe one must look at the relationship between the Democratic Party as …
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Transnational Party Alliances : Analysing the Hard-Won Alliance Between Conservatives and Christian Democrats in the European Parliament
… alliance between Conservatives and Christian Democrats in the European Parliament (EP), entered into by the British and Danish Conservatives in May 1992 and renewed after the 1994 European elections. What factors promote, respectively impede, the formation and evolution of a transnational …
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Study of voting alignments in the 1977 U. S. House of Representatives : a policy dimension approach.
… repeated for the three party groups (Northern Democrats, Republicans, and Southern Democrats) to determine if the political alignments of party members were similar in different policy areas. The correlation coefficients for the party groups were consistently smaller than the correlation …
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RESISTANCE TO MANDATED HEALTHCARE CHANGE: USING PSYCHOLOGICAL REACTANCE TO PREDICT RESPONSES TO THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT INSURANCE COVERAGE REQUIREMENT
… attitudes towards the longevity of the ACA. Democrats were found to have significantly less negative attitudes towards the ACA and towards the longevity of the ACA and Democrats also reported a lower likelihood of the ACA being repealed in comparison to Independents, Republicans or …
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"""For God, Mac, and country"": The political worlds of midwestern Germans during the Civil War era"
… enjoyed a rich and unique political culture. As Democrats and as foreign-born citizens, German midwesterners remained actively involved in party politics throughout the Civil War. German Democrats focused on the draft, civil liberties' violations, taxation, the increase in federal power, evolving …
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The Propensity to Borrow out of Expected Permanent Income
… test it using Equifax data. We demonstrate that Democrats experience a strong, positive shock to their expectations about their future real income around the 2020 presidential election. Our difference-in-difference analysis finds that in response Democrats were 0.08% more likely to take on debt …
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Reconstruction Unbound: American Worldviews In A Period of Promise and Conflict, 1865-1874
… misrepresent how two leading political factions, Democrats and northern Republicans, thought about and argued over Reconstruction. Democrats and northern Republicans, despite all their disagreements with each other, both attempted to situate the reconstruction of the southern states in a context …
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A Vast and Varied Opposition: The Shifting War Democrat - Peace Democrat Continuum in Civil War Pennsylvania
… continuum. This continuum ranged from the War Democrats, whose support for the Union war effort aided the Republican administration of Abraham Lincoln, to the Peace Democrats, whose obstructionist principles aimed to derail the North's commitment to win the war. This work argues that different …
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Style Over Substance? The Effect of Perceptions of the Economy and Affect Toward the President on Trust in Government
… This study finds significant differences between Democrats and Republicans in the trust they afford the government via affect toward the president, suggesting a difference in how self-identified Democrats and Republicans view the president's role in government.
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‘DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HIS RACE’: BLACK OFFICEHOLDERS AND THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF FREEDOM IN WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, 1865-1877
… from emancipation in 1865 through 1876, when Democrats gained control of the state government and brought Reconstruction to an end. It considers the struggle for black office holding in the city, the black men who held office, the dynamic political culture of which they were a part, and their …
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Essays on the Economics of Climate Action
… 21,000 participants to show three things. First, Democrats, “typical” members of the US climate movement, internalize these externalities and are more likely to email Congress when doing so can inspire others to join them. Next, Democrats are much more likely to try to recruit other Democrats than …
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R. Walton Moore and Virginia Politics, 1933-1941
… was an advocate for Virginia's anti-organization Democrats. These Democrats were generally supportive of the New Deal and its programs, but wielded little political power because of the tight control with which Byrd and Glass distributed patronage. This essay traces Moore's three major efforts to …
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Politics of Electoral Reform: The Case of the United Kingdom’s 2011 Referendum on the Alternative Vote
… for those individuals contacted by the Liberal Democrats. Contact by the Liberal Democrats, contrary to the expectations had an impact in the negative direction of the position endorsed by the Party.
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Tippecanoe and the Party Press Too: Mass Communication, Politics, Culture, and the Fabled Presidential Election of 1840
… they the province of only one party that year. Democrats were neither listless nor baffled: in fact their vote total on behalf of President Martin Van Buren was much larger than what they'd posted in 1836. Democrats---or at least their leading national newspaper---had sought to win support in …
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