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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Political Behavior"”.
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Ethnic Identification and Political Behavior
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Conspicuous Consumption and American Political Behavior
… of image in society. This proposal argues that political participation is susceptible to exploitation in the form of conspicuous consumption as defined by Thorstein Veblen. The analyses that follow will test the degree to which Americans who demonstrate more traditional forms of conspicuous …
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Psychology and the Explanation of Political Behavior
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Alternative explanations of social mobility and political behavior
<p>The review of the literature on political behavior of intergenerationally mobile Americans suggests that mobile individuals, as aggregates, take on an intermediate political position between manual and non-manual stable groups. This finding has been interpreted as an indication of an …
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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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International political behavior: historical analysis of Scandinavia and the Netherlands.
… Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, 1971
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… the relationship between economic informality, political behavior, and public goods provision. In three papers, it explores how seemingly nonpolitical everyday social institutions and collective action rooted in economic informality help extend the reach of the state and advance public policies …
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Essays on the Role of Identity in Economic and Political Behavior
… in the domains of education, work, and political participation. The first essay studies beliefs about experiencing racial or gender discrimination, or perceived discrimination, and its consequences for worker behavior. Using a large randomized controlled trial (RCT, N=5,000) in a …
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The determinants of political behavior : evidence from three randomized field experiments
My dissertation explores the political behavior of different groups, including immigrants, the youth, and uneducated and marginalized citizens - focusing on their registration and turnout decisions, as well as vote choices, political interest, and competence. I conducted three randomized field …
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Religion and Political Behavior: Studies of Political Tolerance, Voting, and Public Opinion
Religion in the study of politcal behavior has produced varied results because of a lack of clarity on the conceptualization of religion and a methodology that can adequately untangle the multiple meanings of religion. Using the technique of propensity score mathching, this dissertation breaks …
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District Magnitude the Tie that Binds: A Comparative Analysis of Political Behavior
… district magnitude is studied as it impacts political efficacy, political participation, satisfaction with government. A case study of Brazil is used to analyze how district magnitude impacts voting behavior and legislative careerism in an open-list proportional system. Results provide some …
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The Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfers for Political Behavior and Human Development
… the effects of CCTs on human development, the political behavioral consequences remain underexplored. In the dissertation, I address this gap by analyzing the effects of CCTs on political participation and policy. I also explore the implications of these effects for human development. </p><p>My …
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A League of Their Own: an Exploration of Fandom, Identity, and Political Behavior
This dissertation examines political fandom as a dimension of political social identity, investigating its relationships with political participation, social media engagement, and affective polarization. Scholarship has long analyzed partisan and ideological beliefs through Social Identity Theory, …
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African American Female Political Behavior in the Georgia General Assembly: Policy, Position, & Power
… politics since the 19th century. However, their political contributions have often been in non-traditional political settings – religious groups, schools, and civil rights and social movements. In the 1960’s, African American women gained political agency and began to occupy mainstream political …
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White Americans' Affect Toward African Americans: Predictive Power on Political Behavior and Measurement Problems
<p>The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact white affect toward African Americans has on whites' racial policy opinions. The study also identifies the difficulty of measuring affect in the traditional feeling thermometer. Moreover, the study introduces and tests a new method for …
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Voting for nostalgia?: Authoritarian nostalgia, social identity, and political behavior in post-authoritarian democracies
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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Soft Skills and Hard Work: Organizing as a Political Behavior Rooted in Relational Labor
… activists to recruit others and invest in their political engagement - a critical democratic practice. Existing explanations for organizing's emergence tend to focus on political organizations and available opportunity structures. However, organizing is a labor-intensive form of political …
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On the confrontation of classical democratic theory by the findings of contemporary political behavior research
… (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Political Science, 1964
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Unifying behavioral inquiry: integrating personality traits and situational effects in the study of political behavior
… developed a remarkable understanding of how the political environment influences individual political thought and action, but we have not made as much progress in developing our knowledge of the individual predispositions that citizens bring with them into the political world. In recent years, a …
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