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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Election day"”.
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The Impact of a Ballot Education Program on Arkansas Voters
… 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 of county agents, to describe knowledge acquisition of program participants, and to measure …
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Liberalizing American Voting Laws: Institutionally Increasing Voter Turnout
… voting laws have on voter turnout in national elections in the United States. I analyzed voter turnout in the 2008 Presidential Election and the 2010 off year election in all fifty states to see if voting restrictions declined turnout. My results show evidence that the further away from …
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Early voting in the 2004 presidential election
… Fourth, the differences between early voters, election day voters, and non-voters. Fifth, what are the determents of casting an early ballot. Sixth, do early voting laws lead to more electoral participation. My findings suggest that early voting does not significantly change the way in which …
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Essays About Newspaper Political Endorsements
… of newspaper endorsements: their influence on elections, and the factors determining these recommendations. In the first chapter of my dissertation, "Newspaper Political Endorsements and Market Competition," I develop and estimate a simple structural model to identify the factors determining …
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Explaining Subnational Variation in Voter Coordination and Party Entry in Electoral Competition
… can impact: where parties choose to contest elections, which and how many parties are successful, and why some voters in a country might not have the option of casting a ballot for all parties on election day. The first and third papers concentrate specifically on the supply side of electoral …
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Voter turnout in Saskatchewan : how important are civic education and community participation?
… has decreased in both federal and provincial elections, especially in the past decade or so, and especially among 18-24 year olds. Provincially, turnout has fallen almost 20 percentage points over a four-year period. Saskatchewan voter turnout in federal elections has fallen almost 15 …
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Inconvenient Voting: Native Americans and The Costs of Early Voting
… in-person voting at polling places on election day. Yet, anecdotal evidence suggests that reforms intended to make the voting process easier do not have the same effect throughout the electorate. Instead, early voting is likely to exacerbate the lack of ability to meaningfully …
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International migration, electoral strategies and home country elections
… political parties to decide who to target during elections. By electoral targeting, I refer to those practices commonly used to get more votes, including: clientelism, home visits and the distribution of promotion and advertising materials. Because exposure to migration fosters political …
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The 2000 presidential election: A content analysis of newspaper media coverage
… integrity, media coverage of presidential elections should be fair and unbiased. This study examined the newspaper media coverage of George W. Bush and Al Gore, the two major presidential candidates in the 2000 election. This study examined all issues of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Las …
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Issue Publics Gone Wild Or The End Of Narrow Interests
… such as the decision of who to vote for on election day, on issues that are particularly important to them. This subset of issues is presumed to be relatively small in quantity for most individuals, allowing them to specialize in information gathering and attention. There is reason to …
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Masking the Second Amendment: Issue agenda building during the 2020 American presidential election
… tweets from the 2020 American presidential election to determine what issues and substantive attributes were most salient on interest group and candidate agendas during the "hot phase" of the campaign. Cross-lagged correlations were conducted during two time periods from Labor Day to …
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The Construction of Candidate’s Political Image on Social Media: A Thematic Analysis of Facebook Comments in the 2014 Presidential Election in Indonesia
… candidates’ image during the 2014 presidential election from the perspective of Facebook users. I analyzed Facebook users’ comments derived from one of the candidate’s Facebook pages, Prabowo Subianto, by employing a thematic analysis to examine an official posting’s comments on June 19, 2014 …
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The Impact of Campaign Visits on Predicted Voter Choice in the 2016 Presidential Election
… voter choice within the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Data on discrete events throughout the campaign were collected to first determine the impact of particular newsworthy events on predicted voter choice. The data show that the impact of these events dissipates prior to Election Day, leading …
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Voting the Bible, the Texan way : a comparative analysis of how megachurch pastors framed the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential election.
… played a role in moving the needle in various election outcomes, particularly concerning conservative issues. Stereotyped by many as a conservative and biblically focused state, Texas has become a forerunner in many matters regarding politically conservative candidates. Looking specifically at …
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It's not what you say, but how you say it: anger, audio, and the U.S. House of Representatives
… that anger may cause voters to turn out more on Election Day, but generally they do so in order to vote against anger.
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The taking of the Fifth : the contested 1960 election in the Indiana Fifth Congressional District
Elections are seldom covered in detail below the level of the national contests. Regional, district, and local elections often appear to be too provincial to be worth the time and effort to research and analyze in any detail."Taking the Fifth" is about a contested congressional race that was in …
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Causal inference with time-series cross-sectional data : with applications to positive political economy
… cross-sectional (TSCS) data are widely used in today's social sciences. Researchers often rely on two-way fixed effect models to estimate causal quantities of interest with TSCS data. However, they face the challenge that such models are not applicable when the so called "parallel trends" …
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A critical analysis of selected campaign speeches of Richard M. Nixon during the 1960 presidential campaign
… nomination in July and continuing until election day, the campaign lasted for over sixteen weeks.</p><p>This was a campaign of firsts. It was the first time two men so young had run for president. The election of either would have put America’s youngest elected president into office. It …
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Polling and political behavior : explaining inaccuracy in Italian polling
The use of polls during election campaigns has become increasingly commonplace, its main purpose being to predict elections results. Some literature highlights evidence that pre-electoral polls increase their predictive accuracy as the time between the interview and Election Day decreases. …
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