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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Party affiliation"”.
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Analyzing Political Party Affiliation Versus Issue Orientation and Investigating Correlates of Party Affiliation
This thesis concerned political party affiliation and issue orientation. The purpose of this study was to ascertain if voters' orientation on issues agreed with those of their political party of choice. Three hundred and thirty-seven registered voters in the 138th Legislative District in Greene …
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Political Orientations and the Influences of Cohort Membership and Time: Patterns of Change in Tolerance, Confidence, and the Strength of Party Affiliation
… people running institutions and the strength of party affiliation) and enduring versus contemporaneous forces. Birth cohort membership and education are selected to represent the former and the time of survey and media use the latter. Three fundamentals of the present study differ from most prior …
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Parental influence on political development among late adolescents
… maternal and paternal parenting style, political party affiliation, attitude to authority, political conservatism (racial/social conservatism, religious fundamentalism, and punitiveness), and political identity. Results indicated that high levels of maternal acceptance were related to a …
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Race Self-Labeling Choices of Multiracial Individuals
… such as gender, social class, and political party affiliation influence the race self-labels chosen by multiracial individuals in the United States. In addition, I take into account factors of discrimination, socialization, and racial identity importance and their potential influence on race …
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The sociality, ontogeny, and function of corvid post-conflict affiliation
… up with their former opponent (former opponent affiliation) or by affiliating with a bystander (thirdparty affiliation). Post-conflict behaviour has been studied in many mammals but only in two bird species: rooks and ravens. Consequently, the prevalence and function of avian post-conflict …
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Partisan Politics and Green Foreign Direct Investment (Electrical Vehicle Industry in the United States)
… in 50 U.S. states with governors’ political party affiliation. I find that the left-wing party affiliation is strongly and positively associated with introducing pro-EV legislation. And states with a Democratic governor is not statistically associate with providing incentives to EV …
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An Investigation Into the Decision-Making Processes of Legislators Engaged in Public Policy Regarding Education
… purposefully chosen based on factors including party affiliation, location of district, gender, race, and years of experience so that a diverse representation was achieved. Each participant was assured anonymity and was represented solely as a participant number.</p> <p>Findings revealed that …
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The Prediction and Explanation of Actual Voting Behavior in a Presidential Primary Election
… their behavior. Political scientists added party affiliation along with other political characteristics of voters to explain their behavior. Social psychologists went beyond the prediction and explanation of voting behavior by surveying voters' beliefs and allowing for the control of them. …
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CEO Icon to GOP Hopeful: A Quantitative Analysis Exploring Politically Motivated Celebrity CEOs
… about political candidates. Finally, political party affiliation was found to significantly influence the findings of this study while gender and political cynicism did not. Theoretical implications and areas of future research in celebrity and politics are discussed.
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Politicians and the Internet
… in several different ways: gender and race, party affiliation, length of service in the senate, region of the country they represent, urban and rural states, and age of the Senators. The results showed 6 significant findings in the areas of content: Democrats had more informational content; …
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Political Affiliations of American Economic Elites: Wayne County, Michigan, 1844, 1860, as a Test Case
… the economic careers, ethnic origins, religious affiliations and family backgrounds of a carefully selected economic elite. What is obtained by the extensive documentation of over one-hundred and seventy-five individuals is the opportunity to study the relationship of these attributes to …
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The Unconventional Candidate: Agenda-Setting in Small-Town Politics
… climate, the intersectionality between race, party affiliation, and ideology makes for an interesting case study in the power of media and agenda-setting. This professional project employed a mixed-methods approach, combining content creation with quantitative social media analysis and …
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Interest group involvement in constituency election campaigns
… federal election as reported in the Constituency Party Association dataset created in 1991 for the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing. SPSSPC+ was used to analyze the relationships between variables in four main areas: political party affiliation, geographic variables, …
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Impact of Social Identity on Rape Legitimacy and Myth Acceptance
… be an ingroup or outgroup member based on the party affiliation of each participant. Results indicate that while there were no significant differences between Republican or Democratic participants overall, Republicans tended to trivialize the statements made by their ingroup politician more …
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Political Echo Chambers: The Internet Facilitates Identity Confirmation
… Additionally, irrespective of political party affiliation, participants were found to self-report that they chose more Republican-leaning weblinks. </p>
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Tuberculosis Awareness and Public Opinion on Expanding Health Insurance Coverage
… but was significantly associated with political party affiliation and education level in the initial analysis (p = .000, and .035, respectively). TB awareness was significantly associated with ethnicity (p = .003) and the education level of the participants (p = .004). When the opinion variable …
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Elections Have Consequences: Moral Value Foundations Ensure Gridlock through the Ballot Box
… attribution-emotion processes, and moderated by party affiliation, such that reactions were negative for Republicans and positive for Democrats. Results suggest that moral values may lead voters to elect politicians who are farther from the political center, perpetuating gridlock.</p>
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Reframing Environmental Messages and the Role of Identity in Wider Appeal
… framing, source of information, and political affiliation on receptiveness toward environmental messages. Furthermore, the current study expands on the original study by exploring a mediating relationship between receptiveness and behavioral intention. Participants (N = 406) were registered to …
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Who's Attending the Party? Elections, Parties, and Democratization in Postcommunist States
… important political actors--PR methods promote party politics whereas SMD methods do not. A third phenomenon--significant numbers of ambitious office seekers who have no party affiliation competing in SMD elections--strongly suggests that political parties are the key intervening variable in the …
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Support for Higher Education: Perceptions of Selected University Administrators and Legislators in Tennessee
… a significant difference between one's political party affiliation and perception of access to higher education being an issue. Democratic participants tended to perceive access to higher education as more of an issue than Republican participants. A significant difference was also found between …
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