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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Party Loyalty"”.
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Party loyalty among Democratic and Republican leaders : a case study of McLennan County, Texas.
An examination of political party loyalty of leaders within the Democratic and Republican parties of McLennan County. Texas, is the purpose of this study. More precisely, the study deals with the leaders' attitudes toward party loyalty, on both long and short terms. A comparison is made between …
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The Prairie Campaign and Kennedy Caucus: A Study of Amateur Groups in North Dakota
… 3. Perceived issues differently 4. Had lower party loyalty 5. Were more likely to bolt the party</p><p>The goal is to determine if these caucuses were a cadre of younger, more educated party members motivated more by ideological concerns rather than party identification and thus, more likely …
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Congressional primaries and legislative behavior
… where the reelection constituency is the party base. I investigate how primary competition affects legislators’ volume of activity, the issue content of this activity, and their levels of party loyalty. Using primary election data from the 1998-2008 election cycles and legislative behavior …
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Meeting in the Middle: The Impact of Single-Party Dominance on Partisan Politics
… study seeks to examine the effect this single-party domination has on the policy positions of Senate candidates of the minority parties in these states. It is hypothesized that minority party candidates seeking election in these states will be more likely to adopt policy positions more commonly …
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Reading between the (party) lines : how political news is seen and shared
… news is perceived and shared within and across party lines in the context of the 2016 US presidential elections. We begin by examining the impact of political context versus article content on the reader through a crowdsourced study, and follow up with a large scale analysis of story sharing on …
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Implications of Cadre Deployment on Local Government in Vhembe District Municipality
… posts in government, frequently on the basis of party loyalty rather than qualifications or merit, is known as "cadre deployment." Although cadre deployment has been discussed in South Africa, little is known about how it specifically affects local government organizations and service delivery, …
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Texas Annexation and the Presidential Election of 1844 in the Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Newspaper
… general, especially for the Whigs, and political party loyalty proved the decisive factors in the presidential election of 1844 and Texas annexation. The evidence gathered in this study indicates that Texas annexation deliberately became an issue in the presidential election by the Democratic …
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Ideological Differences Between Whigs, Republicans and Democrats in Iowa, 1838-1860: Real or Illusory?
… as well as in areas marked specifically for party loyalty, such as the return of Jackson's fine, party lines were clearly defined. Areas less traumatized by party rhetoric have a concensus based on sectional or county advantage. Overall parties do appear to be ideologically based and in …
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‘We vote for good things’: The moral economy of voting in South Africa, 2009-2019
… an increase in both abstention and opposition party support, making it a fruitful time to interrogate how voters make the decisions which ultimately determine the trajectory of democracy - supporting the ruling party, abstaining, or voting for the opposition. In contrast to the dominant …
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The post-conflict odyssey of German communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War, 1939-1989
… adherence to the politics of the Communist Party. Yet in so arguing, these scholars have failed to recognize the political difficulties the veterans faced and the means of ideological negotiation to which they resorted to preserve their Party loyalty at these critical historical junctures. …
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“Put a crapaud in a suit and people will vote for the PNM”: A critical examination of patronage, loyalty, and the structuring force of party partisanship in Trinidad
… in Trinidad: the ambivalences of being a party loyalist. Extensive scholarship on Trinidadian politics points to the confluence of race and patronage shaping political decisions yet less is spoken of the conflicting subjectivities of loyalists that are obscured by their exercise of …
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Printing Politics: The Emergence of Political Parties in Florida, 1821-1861
… men and local geographic loyalties to loyalty to party regardless of who was running to national and regional loyalties above local issues and men. Lastly, the central and most consistent aspect of Florida’s political party development was the influence of newspapers and their editors. …
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Candidates, the economy and voting behavior
… choice. Negative affection to the opposition party leads voters to be more loyal to their own party. A natural question then arises, that is, do candidates matter to negative partisanship? Do they promote strong oppositions by emphasizing negative advertising and campaigning? Are candidates’ …