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Politicians and the Internet
<p>The topic for this thesis examines the utilization of senatorial websites by United States Senators as a new communication tool. Three different areas of content will be examined: informational content, interactive content and audio-visual content. Those three areas will be used to examine the …
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Incentive Contracts for Politicians
… studies the potential of incentive contracts for politicians using game-theoretic methods. Supplementing the election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts are considered: a) monetary incentive contracts which reward the …
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Music, Politics and Liquid Modernity : How Rock-stars Became Politicians and Why Politicians Became Rock-stars.
… have therefore tended to succeed where politicians have largely failed. In order to arrest this decline Featherstone claims that liquid modem politics has gravitated towards the ease of 'commodified consumer critique' than using this shift as an opportunity for 'serious political …
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When Politicians Misread the Public: Experimental Evidence that Politicians Underestimate Climate Policy Support and Norm-Based Solutions
Because of the systemic influence of politicians’ decisions, and the striking disconnect between public demand for climate action and governments’ limited responses, this thesis investigates: Do politicians underestimate public support for climate policies? The social norm literature shows that …
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The Emerging Image of Women Politicians in Texas
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How do politicians understand and respond to climate change?
… Thus national administrations, run by elected politicians, have a crucial role to play. It is the role of politicians to put in place the strategies, policies and incentives necessary to facilitate emissions reductions. How does this commitment at the level of the nation-state fit with a …
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The Dynamics of Democracy: Politicians, People, and the Press
… The results of this analysis are surprising: politicians exert influence on both the press and the public, while the press and the public remain largely exogenous to policy decisions. Chapter Five follows the results of the aggregate level analysis with a case study of the minimum wage, …
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Social Revolution vs. Nationalism: Misleadership of Senegalese Writer/politicians
… the solutions of the leading Senegalese writer/politicians do not exceed the petty bourgeois limitations of nationalism and reformism.
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A Social Analysis of Indiana Politics and Politicians, 1896-1920
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T20:25:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709223.pdf: 17700380 bytes, checksum: 30bb4c1a7a129bc599d58f582d4dcef8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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How the Ethical Positions of Voters and Politicians Matter in a Democracy
… the ethical views of their society. I find that politicians are generally punished by voters when politicians disagree with their broader political community’s views on ethical matters. Furthermore, this dissertation demonstrates that there is variation in the type of ethical issues that matter …
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Revealed corruption and electoral accountability in Brazil: How politicians anticipate voting behavior
… interpretation of this gap suggests that corrupt politicians often go unpunished because they react to the knowledge of themselves or others being investigated for corruption in unanticipated ways. This dissertation uses data from a long-running anti-corruption program in Brazil to expand on the …
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The political psychology of perceptions of Latino voters and of Latino politicians
In my dissertation, I examined how the American public perceives Latino citizens and Latino representatives, particularly with respect to perceptions of political ideology. Political scientists have made great strides with regard to the consequences of race in American politics, and my dissertation …
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Civil defense under the Truman administration: the impact of politicians and scientists
… the Truman administration. Both Washington's politicians and various atomic scientists embraced civil defense planning as a method of combating the Cold War and ensuring domestic national security. These efforts resulted in the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA). The FCDA was the …
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Popes, politicians and political theory: The principle of subsidiarity in 20th century European history
The transformation of the principle of subsidiarity from a philosophical principle in Catholic social teachings to a constitutional article in the 1992 Treaty on European Union has been a source of confusion for scholars of European integration. Political scientists have examined subsidiarity from …
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The Multidimensional Scaling of Politicians and Attitude Statements, Witha Comparison of Two Scaling Models
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T21:07:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7219928.pdf: 9639352 bytes, checksum: 3b2166f7ed72fc4e481aecfe6629122f (MD5) Previous issue date: 1972
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Recruitment, rhetoric and reform : new labour's politicians and the transformation of British welfare provision
… Beveridge. Widely supported by voters and politicians of all stripes, it remained largely intact into the early 1980s. Yet since then, the benefits system has been radically transformed into one of the developed world's least generous, with major implications for poverty and social …
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Understanding and Enhancing Information Use in the Public Sector: Insights from Politicians and Public Employees
… and party goals. The literature reveals that politicians tend to use information to a limited extent and selectively, often prioritizing personal or party interests over the effectiveness of public policies. Through four distinct studies, the thesis examines the information use behavior of two …
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