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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"Political attitudes"”.
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Age, status inconsistency and political attitudes
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Perceived Knowledge and Defense of Political Attitudes
… tested if perceived knowledge about a political issue predicted people’s willingness to engage with relatively weaker versus stronger belief-threatening information on that issue. Study 1 assessed people’s perceived knowledge on four political issues and, for each issue, manipulated …
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After the honeymoon: The Obama effect on political attitudes and participation
… of a <em>lasting</em> Obama Effect on the political attitudes and behaviors of Obama supporters from 2008. Defining the Obama Effect as the extraordinary enthusiasm surrounding Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, I argue that a <em>short term</em> Obama Effect was clearly present in 2008 based on …
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Public Policy Preferences and Political Attitudes: Exploring the Generational Divide among African Americans
… there have been dramatic increases in education, political representation, business ownership, and occupational position. Yet, for all of the economic, social and political advances made in the African American community, many young people are still subjected to inferior schools, housing and …
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A study of the relationship of several variables on the political attitudes of adolescents
… the influence of three variables on current political attitudes of secondary school adolescents at two suburban-rural high schools in the northern Virginia area. Ability, grade level, and sex were examined to determine their influence on attitude measures essential to the develoµnent of …
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The Impact of The Academic Major on The Political Attitudes and Behavior of College Students
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T06:46:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7804002.pdf: 4040151 bytes, checksum: efe54356b1aeeba8d7d1d94a4d31e2c8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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The Message or The Messenger: The Effects of Political Attitudes and Source on Perceptions of Media Bias
… to seek outlets that they believe share their political attitudes and worldview (Knobloch-Westerwick & Meng, 2009, Tsfati & Capella 2003, Niven 2002, Stalder, 2009, Pew Center, 2009). Researchers Vallone, Ross, and Lepper (1985) were some of the first to describe empirically an observation they …
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A study of the relationships between housing patterns, social class and political attitudes in three Auckland electorates
… a natural egalitarianism of social habits and attitudes had flourished. The critical voices of this earlier period feared that as New Zealand's economy evolved further, so would the degree of social demarcation within society. They expected that these changes would show up most rapidly, and …
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Political Socialization in Colombia's Schools: The Impact of Three Secondary Institutions on Student Political Attitudes and Behavior
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T23:26:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7013346.pdf: 17934521 bytes, checksum: b7c528989faf2963ca0743b72e585750 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1969
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Individualized religious styles : a latent class analysis of religion and its implications for political attitudes and family formation outcomes.
… differences between these religious classes and political outcome variables, such as one's political views, political party identification, views on abortion and the death penalty. The results indicate that the six latent classes derived from the analysis serve as a significant indicator on the …
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An Inquiry Into the Effects of Statutory Climate on the Political Attitudes and Behavior of State-Level Public Administrators
… examines ways in which differences in states' political activity laws affect the political attitudes and reported behavior of senior state government employees. Of particular concern is whether a stringent little Hatch Act engenders any "chilling effects" that may lead these workers to shy away …
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Young People’s Demography in Democracy: The Effect of Youth Cohort Size on Youth Political Attitudes and Behaviors in Democratic Societies (1995-2020)
… contrary, the traditional literature on youth political attitudes and political participation generally asserts that young people in Western democracies are shunning institutionalized politics such as voting, for non-institutionalized politics such as protests. Young people are also argued to …
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Affective Intelligence, The Political Persuasion Process, And Outcome Intent: An Experimental Test
Political communication scholars aim to understand the effect of messages on political attitudes and behavior. Past scholarship has identified three sources of influence in forming attitudes and behavior: affective, cognitive, and personality factors. While much attention has been paid to the …
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Putting the winner-loser effect in context: presidentialism & democracy in the Americas
… the winner-loser effect on individual citizens’ political attitudes and behaviors. The process of electoral politics mandates that voters win or lose in tandem with their preferred political candidates. As such, the relationship of such voters vis-à-vis the government and the political system …
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Financial stocks and political bonds: stock market participation and political behavior in the United States and Britain
… the effect of stock market participation on political behavior. Some observers claim that financial assets—stocks and mutual funds—have a causal effect on political behavior. The “investor class theory” asserts that as people invest in the stock market their partisan attachments shift …
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Decentralisation and State-Citizens Relations: the Case of Ukraine
… for exerting citizenship – affects citizens’ political attitudes and behaviours is not yet well understood. If a small body of evidence converges on the existence of a positive effect of decentralisation on subnational electoral participation in Western countries, the wider external validity …
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The Religious Paradox: Examining the countervailing impacts of religious and spiritual beliefs on socio-political outcomes
… across cultures and history, yet their socio-political impacts are often ambiguous and poorly understood. This thesis examines forms of religious identification to address two fundamental gaps in the literature on religion’s impact on political attitudes. The first oversight addressed by this …
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Ethnic identity among people of Mexican descent: a comparison of self reference, perception of similarity, and interaction preference
… of ethnic identity as they relate to ethno-political attitudes and hypothesized structural determinants. While this study indicates that the three measures may each tap into separate dimensions of the self concept, it is determined that statement of interaction preference is the measure most …
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