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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Political Knowledge"”.
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Local Television News, Political Participation and Political Knowledge
… the study explores the relationships among political information, political participation, and the incumbency advantage. The study demonstrates that individuals living in media markets where the geographical boundaries of the media market are more congruent with the geographical boundaries …
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Political knowledge and social media use in the digital media system
… explores how social media exposure affects political knowledge among the American public. Political knowledge is central to any understanding of citizen competence, yet key questions remain about how to best increase citizens’ information levels. My dissertation project assesses to what …
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Political Sophistication: How Values and Social Capital Contribute to Political Knowledge and Cognition
… Schwartz should relate to social capital and political sophistication in particular ways. Individual value types that emphasize "other-orientation" should positively relate to social capital characteristics that increase information flows which in turn will relate to increased political …
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Effects of internet use on actual and self-perceived political knowledge, issue certainty and political participation
Current research on political knowledge focuses to a large extent on differences between Internet users and non-users. As Internet use is shown to constantly increase, more complex questions arise related to the impact of Internet on citizens' political involvement. This thesis takes a deeper look …
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More complicated than we thought: An examination of political knowledge, efficacy, and engagement in the comparative context
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Laughing Our Way To Stronger Democracy: Political Comedy's Potential To Equalize Political Interest And Political Knowledge In Community College Students
<p>Political comedy is the one off-line news source – albeit soft news – that young adults access in higher rates than older adults. They are tuning into political comedy to be entertained, but while watching, they also get a healthy dose of politics. For otherwise apolitical young people, does …
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Political science: quests for identity, constructions of knowledge
As the professional identity of political scientists has changed, so have their constructions of political knowledge. Political scientists initially defined themselves in terms of their ability to aid a modernizing polity. By the 1970’s, though, political knowledge was strongly affected by …
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THE SOCIAL MEDIA ROLE IN FORMING POLITICAL AWARENESS AMONG IRAQI YOUTH
… the relationship between social media use and political knowledge and participation among Iraqi youth during the October revolution in 2019. This study investigates the role of social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter) in forming political awareness and the relationship between social media …
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Motivated Reasoning, Ambivalence, And The Local Economy: Asymmetric Biases In The Formation Of Economic Perceptions
… the direction of partisan attachments, levels of political knowledge, and the local economic environment play in the formation of national economic perceptions. The findings show that, first, out-partisans are more prone towards motivated reasoning than in-partisans when evaluating the national …
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Political engagement and social networking sites exploring the relationship between social networking sites and political engagement in young adults
… of college age. Due to the increasing number of political figures and political information on SNS, this study analyzes the relationship between SNS and political engagement. Specifically, this study seeks to determine if adults' consumption of political information on SNS leads to higher levels …
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Candidates, the economy and voting behavior
… includes three independent but related essays on political behavior. The first essay, “Candidate Evaluation and Negative Partisanship: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election"", builds on existing literature arguing that candidates are playing more and more important roles in elections, …
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Understanding the politics of Hispanic American women: Attitudes and behaviors of an emerging elite
… purpose of this study to learn more about the political attitudes and behaviors of Hispanic women in the United States. A survey with questions taken from the National Election Study was completed by 101 Hispanic women and 106 Anglo women at Texas Woman's University. The questionnaire examined …
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Scaling Up Fact-Checking Using the Wisdom of Crowds
… We explore a solution to these problems: using politically balanced groups of laypeople to identify misinformation at scale. Examining 207 news articles flagged for fact-checking by Facebook algorithms, we compare accuracy ratings of three professional fact-checkers who researched each article …
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Die aanbieding van politiek as nuusonderwerp in Sarie, Rooi Rose en Fair Lady (1994-2005)
… a democracy, especially where women's levels of political knowledge are lower than those of men. Due to the fact that women's magazines are popular reading material amongst women, it is uniquely positioned to provide political information to them, apart from the fact that they have not been …
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Making Bureaucracy Accountable: Three Essays on Bureaucratic Accountability in China
… in the name of accountability could impact political support through the lens of an aircraft crash occurring in March 2022 in mainland China. I conduct a survey experiment by showing accountability information randomly to survey respondents. My analysis shows that accountability sanctions …
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Assessing the balance: Burkean frames and Lil' Bush
… is “the irony demo,” a slice of society whose political knowledge is gained from consumption of entertainment than it is from more traditional sources (e.g. the nightly news), its failure to live up to its satiric veneer may have a significant impact on this group’s political engagement.
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Assessing the balance: Burkean frames and Lil' Bush
… is “the irony demo,” a slice of society whose political knowledge is gained from consumption of entertainment than it is from more traditional sources (e.g. the nightly news), its failure to live up to its satiric veneer may have a significant impact on this group’s political engagement.
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Urban high school students' attitudes toward democratic citizenship: A comparison of students in the NJROTC program and students in traditional civics classes
… between civics education and increased civic and political knowledge; however, classroom instruction alone cannot provide all that is needed to promote a community of civic-minded individuals. Further, a survey of state level civics standards acknowledged the important relationship between …
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White Opinions Of United States Immigration: Testing Rival Hypotheses, 2004
Few issues in the contemporary American political and social environments are as salient and emotionally charged as the debate over immigration. The thesis tests several competing hypotheses concerning the determinants of public opinion – among white respondents – on immigration issues. These …
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