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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Policy preferences"”.
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Dealing with danger : threat perception and policy preferences
… the relationship between threat perception and policy preferences. The project takes a unified approach to studying the space of danger-mitigating political behaviors. It is designed to demonstrate that a single psychological model can apply to both citizens and elites and in both domestic and …
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21st century biomedical advances: Technology acceptance and policy preferences
… States. A new TA instrument was created, and two policy measures were assessed: “Who decides?” and “Who pays?” An on-line survey produced 353 usable responses to answer five research questions, the most important of which were “Were there any significant differences in the TA responses for the …
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Understanding the formation of American mental health policy preferences, 1952-1981
… Health Systems Act, that American mental health policy tipped over definitively into the outpatient-centered, drug-based model. In this quantitative study of the formation of policy preference, the delay between the feasibility of the outpatient-centered, drug-based model and its adoption was …
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Authoritarianism on Policy Preferences in Canada
… autonomy, is a popular explanation for political preferences and behaviour but it is misunderstood as existing only on the right; as either an all-powerful or insignificant predictor of policy preferences; and as a predisposition that is activated by threat. Our understanding of it is further …
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Public Policy Preferences and Political Attitudes: Exploring the Generational Divide among African Americans
… Black Elections Study (NBES), I examine public policy preferences and political attitudes of African Americans. I use bivariate and multivariate analysis to show generational gaps in attitudes about issues related to major party performance. I draw three major conclusions from this analysis. …
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God save this honorable court : religion as a source of judicial policy preferences
… Court behavior is structured largely by the policy preferences of the justices, political scientists ought to consider the source of those preferences. Religion is one force that can strongly shape a judge’s worldview and therefore her votes. In this paper, I examine the effect of religion on …
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Prospective Reappointment and the Monetary Policy Preferences of the Federal Open Market Committee Members
… impact on the decision making than the monetary policy.This research is contributing to the political economy literature in the area of Federal Reserve Bank of the United States of America. We have a unique data set as we do not use a dissent voting data. Even though dissent data sets are …
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Gun Control Policy Preference in Context: A Contextually Sensitive Model of Gun Control Policy Preferences
… values and contextual effects on gun control policy preferences. The research seeks to produce a contextually sensitive model of gun control policy preferences that accounts for the nature of the elite message war regarding the issue of gun control and for both long and short-term contextual …
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Pollution control investment decisions and policy preferences of senior managers of the Southern African fish processing industry
… decisions as well as the perceptions and preferences of managers with regard to various pollution control policy options. Descriptive statistics such as the modal class were used to summarize the distribution of opinions and viewpoints within the research population. Rank ordered …
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The Impact Of Black Political Representation On The Racial Attitudes, Policy Preferences, And Vote Choice Of Whites In Minority Majority Congressional Districts
… and therefore improve white racial attitudes, policy preferences for race-targeted legislation, vote choice, and candidate evaluation. Utilizing a representative sample of whites residing in congressional districts represented by an African American from the 2010 and 2012 Cooperative …
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PREDICTING POLICY: EXAMINING PERCEPTIONS OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, COLOR-EVASIVE RACIAL ATTITUDES, AND BELIEFS ABOUT CAPITALISM
… distribution predict redistributive economic policy preferences. I hypothesized that beliefs about capitalism, perceptions of wealth distribution, and color-evasiveness predict policy preferences when controlling for Satisfaction With Life (SWLS) and that critical consciousness action (CA) …
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Depolarizing Environmental Policy: Identities and Public Opinion on the Environment
… and on climate change in particular, have led to policy gridlock in the United States. While most Americans rely on their partisan identities to guide their policy preferences on highly polarizing issues, other non-partisan identities may also be relevant in informing environmental policy …
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How Voters Use Issues
… citizens select candidates based on their own policy preferences, exists as an ideal form of candidate selection in a representative democracy, with politicians being elected because they match the policy preferences of their constituencies. But, in practice, how much of voter decision-making …
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The limits of liberalism? : long-run petroleum prices and government intervention in petroleum markets in Japan, France, and the United States
… In each country regulatory, trade and other policy instruments were restructured to give the forces of supply and demand an increasingly important role in trade in crude oil and petroleum products. It was also found that convergence on liberal outcomes was partially reversed in some …
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A Comprehensive Examination of the Determinants and Consequences of Political Trust among Latinos
… What impact does political trust have on Latino policy preferences and vote choice? Utilizing survey data of Californians, evidence I find that acculturation and country-of-origin variables account for differences between Latinos and non-Latinos, and that socio-economic variables do not. Latinos …
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Effects of Messages About Genetics, Race, and Health on Public Opinion About Personalized Medicine and Health Policy
… opinion about personalized medicine and health policy. A series of three experiments embedded in online surveys were used to assess the impact of racial cues and controllability attributions on audience’s opinions about current health topics and policies related to personalized medicine and …
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It's in the mail : the effect of vote by mail balloting on voter turnout and policy outcomes in U.S. elections
… political participation and, in turn, shape policy outcomes. I investigate this relationship by analyzing the all-mail balloting method known as Vote By Mail. Using a data set of 3310 cases representing elections in 7 states, I show that the use of Vote By Mail produces an overall effect of a …
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The Commander's Sword & the Executive's Pen: Presidential Success in Congress and the Use of Force.
… higher levels of congressional support for their policy preferences on votes pertaining to foreign or defense matters after uses of force abroad. But, despite these findings, diversionary behavior is found to hinder rather than facilitate troubled presidents' abilities to influence congressional …
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The Culture of Green: The Role of Cultural Worldviews, Psychological Connectedness, Time Discounting, and Social Norms in Environmental Decisions
… at intertemporal decisions, social norms, policy preferences, and behaviors in the environmental domain. Looking closely at the environmental domain allows for a unique opportunity to examine whether or not cultural worldviews or social norms are motivating environmental behaviors (e.g. …
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The political economy of foreign investment : constructing cultural categories of capitalist legitimacy in India
… social sciences: Where do economic interests and policy preferences come from? How do interests and preferences shape political and economic behavior, government policy, firm strategy and ultimately market outcomes? The dissertation addresses this question by analyzing political contestation over …
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