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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Political candidates"”.
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Women Political Candidates and the Paradoxes of Rhetorical Style: The Effects of Gender and Status on the Rhetorical Style of Barbara Boxer's, Carol Moseley -Braun's, and Patty Murray's 1992 and 1998 Senate Campaigns
… rhetorical problems for women senatorial candidates. Two rhetorical techniques are revealed which explain how the female candidates studied attempted to reconcile the incompatibilities in their political image and discourse which arose mainly from their status as incumbents. The candidates …
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The effects of debater styles on audiences during televised political debates
… viewers found most appealing in state level political candidates during organized, televised events. The author acknowledges that many studies of this nature are conducted on the national level. The author chose to analyze the same type of material on a lower level of government to determine …
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CEO Icon to GOP Hopeful: A Quantitative Analysis Exploring Politically Motivated Celebrity CEOs
… of celebrity CEOs potentially transitioning to political candidates. Using Carly Fiorina's campaign for Senator of California, this study identified how young voters perceive celebrity CEOs as politicians, their identification of celebrity CEOs, and the evaluations of CEOs and their companies. …
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The wages of fear: How gender, ideology, and symbolic threat influenced the voting behaviors of white southern women in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections
… women; whether these decisions influence political affiliation of partners/spouses/family; and whether threat is weaponized to influence voting behaviors. This study uses three sources of data: the 2016 ANES Time Series Study, the 2020 Time Series study, and a third source consisting of …
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Cracks in the Glass Ceiling
Bias against female political candidates has been a hot-button issue, especially during and after the 2016 election, and the media is not exempt from being a part of the discussion. The overall question that this article proposes is whether there is a definitive bias against female political …
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Shouldering Giants: Campaign Consultants and the Professionalisation of American Election Campaigns.
… there is an inherent paradox in the American political cultural: that there is a strong distaste for any professionals spawned in the political process, despite that process being so complex (increasingly so) that professionals are required to navigate its courses on behalf of potential …
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Man Behind The Curtain: The 2004 Election from a Historical Perspective
… display of modern democracy. It illustrated that political candidates market themselves as though they were products to be bought from a store. By utilizing newspaper articles, autobiographies, and various other sources, this study seeks to show several things. First, it illustrates the evolution …
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Political Responses against Terrorism and Hypothetical Voting Intention.
<p>This paper explores the impact of political responses against terrorism and how they are linked to hypothetical voting intention. After September 11, 2001, terrorism became a major concern of democratic governments and their residents. Terrorism poses a constant unseen threat that people want to …
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Headlines as networked language : a study of content and audience across 73 million links on Twitter
… who have shared content from particular political candidates. The "content graph" of the news ecosystem - the set of similarities and differences at the level of the actual coverage - is often assumed to be tightly linked to the "audience graph"; and the two are even defined in terms of …
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Political silence, the feminine style, and Aids: The role of surrogate speakers at the 1992 presidential nominating conventions
… a national health crisis and a highly publicized political issue that each party knew had to be addressed. Until this point, presidential candidates had remained relatively silent on the issue without consequence. Due to the nature of the subjects relating to AIDS (i.e. sex, homosexuality, drug …
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The Implications of A Distributed Autonomous Organization On Political Campaign Finance Regulations
… regulations on the contributions received by political candidates and parties has faced scrutiny over many years due to the fact that certain donors need not disclose their identities. With the rise of “dark money," which refers to “political spending to influence the decision of a voter, …
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Memory for Positive, Negative, and Comparison Ads: Studying Semantic Associations Between Candidates and Issues Using EEG
Political advertisements are a ubiquitous force during political campaigns. The 30-second TV spot is a particularly prominent form of political advertising, securing the bulk of advertising expenditures. Although political TV ads arouse contempt and condemnation from politicians, the media, and …
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The Performance of Gender Archetypes in Political Campaigns
In this study, I examine how congressional candidates present gendered identities on their campaign websites. In my theory of candidate gendered identity, drawn from literature on presentation of the self and gender performativity, I argue that candidates construct their personal identities in …
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The Impact of Person-Centered Communications on Political Candidate Evaluation: An Experimental Investigation
… person-centeredness has not been explored in the political realm. This project investigated how person-centered communications can influence impressions and evaluations of political candidates. In the first study, person-centered (PC) messages were shown to impact candidate trait ratings. …
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Seeing is Believing: The Strategy Behind Campaign Imagery and its Impact on Voters
… low cost (practically and strategically), political candidates can realize enormous benefits by designing campaign images that appeal to voters’ policy preferences.
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Social Networking and the Web Campaign: Observations from the 2010 Election for the U.S. House of Representatives
Scholars and political candidates have frequently viewed online political participation as a weaker and less meaningful form of political involvement than traditional, offline activities. This thesis presents an overview of the literature on political participation and the Internet in order to …
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Religious Politics: An Individual Level-Examination Of The Political Implications Of Faith In Brazil
… religious marketplace has been its impact in the political realm; more specifically, in the number of political candidates that have identified themselves as evangélicos. The presence of evangélicos in power seems to be the most studied facet of the growth of Pentecostalism in Brazil. However, the …
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Bumpkin rising: the development of American identity through the country bumpkin character in American manners plays
… in addition to entertainment can be seen in our political candidates.
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Do We Want Them to Understand Each Other? Perceptions of Political Perspective-Takers
1 PDF file (ix, 80 pages)
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Essays on Political Economy
… dissertation is a collection of three papers on political economy that explore several of the most salient political events in recent decades, including the rise in affective polarization, protests, and high levels of corruption in developing countries. These events can severely affect the …
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