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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Opinion polls"”.
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The politics of public opinion: Polls, pollsters and presidents
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Collective Memory of the War In Iraq: An Analysis of Letters to the Editor and Public Opinion Polls, 2003-2008
… an analysis of letters to the editor and public opinion polls, seeking to tie these representations of opinion to the concept of collective memory. With a three-pronged grounded theory approach, two working hypotheses and two research questions guided the research process. The first stage …
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Social network effects on information aggregation
… approaches of information aggregation: vanilla opinion poll, opinion polls where sociometric data is inferred from the population's own perception of social connectivity, opinion polls where sociometric data is obtained independent of the populations beliefs and data aggregation using market …
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Essays on Regional Recessions, Spatial Interactions and Forecasting
… a unique data set of daily political opinion polls in the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015. This work explores the forecasting capabilities of the recently developed fractionally cointegrated vector auto-regressive (FCVAR) model. The results show that the FCVAR model delivers superior …
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The Military, War and National Integration: Symbolic Treatment of the Military and War for Purposes of National Integration in Indian Mass Media
… of India, government press releases and public opinion polls.
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Trending in the Right Direction: Using Google Trends Data as a Measure of Public Opinion During a Presidential Election
During the 2016 presidential election, public opinion polls consistently showed a lead in the popular vote and Electoral College for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Following Trump's surprise victory, the political pundits and public at large began to question the accuracy of modern public …
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The pulse of expectations: The evolution of news making in United States presidential campaigns
… and the recent proliferation of public opinion polls. I argue that with the combination of heightened day-to-day coverage of campaigns (made easy by satellite technology) and the new omnipresence of poll data, campaign coverage has largely degenerated into a day-to-day series of …
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Reflections of Revolution: Le Figaro, Le Monde, and Public Opinion in France during the Algerian Conflict (1954-1962)
… Using these newspapers, as well as Gallup polls recorded at the time, this study explores correlations of what was reported in newspapers and how French public opinion evolved during the course of the war. These two major sources of information are shown to have given contradictory …
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Media and the Holocaust: A Comparative Thematic Analysis
… the Jewish population, to literal social opinion polls directly asking about respondents' thoughts on the event.
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The Middle East Peace Process and U.S. Special Interest Groups
… The quantitative data is collected from public opinion polls, the Congressional Record, government documents, the reports of the Federal Election Commission, and the monthly publications of the non-partisan Washington Report on Middle East Affairs from 1989-2011. The qualitative data is based on …
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Securitization and Refugee Resettlement Policy: Using Social Media to Understand Public Attitudes
This thesis answers the question of how public opinion toward refugees and asylum-seekers expressed in opinion polls compares with that expressed through commentary on news articles posted by Cable News Network (CNN) on social media. Using a study of 2,022 Facebook comments regarding the plight of …
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Criminologists' Opinions On Correctional Rehabilitation
… corrections has received much criticism. While opinion polls reveal the public is generally punitive, there is evidence that citizens also support the rehabilitation of offenders. It is less clear what contemporary criminologists think of rehabilitation. The current study seeks to address this …
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A Comparative Study of Parent Attitudes Toward Public Education
… study was an effort to determine the collective opinion of parents of Fairview R-11 students regarding the performance and status of the teachers and administrators as Fairview R-11 School, West Plains, Missouri. A survey was given to 247 parents and the response data was compared to national …
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Princípios andragógicos como meios de incentivar a leitura na área empresarial: uma análise no Projeto de Leitura da Dental Gold
… questions based on Likert Scale, a scale used in opinion polls for psychometric responses, created and applied in the company to employees, such as data collection instrument. For the analysis of the data were used basic statistical resources. From the data analysis it was possible to understand …
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Sounding the last mile: Music and capital punishment in the United States since 1976
… throughout much of the country. While studying opinion polls, quantitative data, and legislation can help make sense of this phenomenon, careful attention to the death penalty’s embeddedness in cultural, creative, and expressive discourses is needed to more fully understand its unique position …
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Political representation of the poor in the U.S. political system : a discussion of theory and practice
… "informal" mechanism examined is the public opinion survey. The normative framework is grounded in the notion that being poor in an affluent nation is an attached, personal interest--a substantive understanding of the interests of the poor cannot be determined through intellectual …
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Siting Community Wind Farms: An Investigation of NIMBY
… increasingly focus on renewables. Public opinion polls show that a majority of Americans support wind energy development but actual wind farm projects often face intense local opposition. This dichotomy between general support for wind energy but opposition towards siting a project nearby …
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Attitudes in Britain towards its Armed Forces and war 1960-2000
… and the Gulf War, a methodical view is taken of opinion polls, press coverage, and letters pages to establish trends at the political, elite and public levels. The media has been used as a reference throughout the thesis as a measure of opinion, but here is analysed for its own biases and …
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American Opinion on Diplomatic Relations with the Vatican, 1945-1965
… the appointment of a new Vatican envoy. Public opinion polls taken during this period indicated that Catholics were strongly in favor of sending another envoy to the Papal court but that Protestants tended to be indifferent--in spite of the increasing opposition coming from their denominations …
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