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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Presidential candidates"”.
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A Constructivist Analysis of Perceptions of 1980 Presidential Candidates
… on the development of persons' impressions of presidential candidates. The study sought to discover whether persons who differed in orientations to the 1980 campaign would also differ in reported attention to campaign messages and in systematic changes in the content and level of elaboration of …
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Corruption, information, and reelection chances of incumbent parties' presidential candidates in developing countries
… International Report, and yet in 2011 presidential elections the incumbent was reelected. A possible explanation for voting for corrupt incumbent parties is that voters are not informed or are misinformed about corruption. This study seeks to address (1) whether or not voters in …
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Gender and the Aggressive or Compassionate President: An Analysis of Electability for Presidential Candidates
… related descriptions on the evaluation of a Presidential candidate. In the first study, participants evaluated sentence descriptions of Presidential candidates. From the first study five sentences were selected that did not influence the participants decision to vote for that candidate, as …
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Social Media Campaign Strategies: A Case Study of Political Issue Framing by 2024 Presidential Candidates in Ghana
… it remains relatively unexplored how individual presidential candidates adopt social media to frame their messages on key political issues for voter engagement, especially in the West Africa region. To fill this gap, this study examines how the two major presidential candidates in Ghana, John …
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Running from the Periphery: An Exploratory Analysis of Women Presidential Candidates in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Utility of Minor Parties
… woman in Africa that has ever been voted into presidential office. Uncovering the dynamics perpetuating men's continued dominance in presidential office-holding in this region requires a deeper understanding of presidential candidacies particularly as they relate to gendered patterns of major …
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The 2000 presidential election: A content analysis of newspaper media coverage
… of journalistic integrity, media coverage of presidential elections should be fair and unbiased. This study examined the newspaper media coverage of George W. Bush and Al Gore, the two major presidential candidates in the 2000 election. This study examined all issues of the Las Vegas …
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What does money mean? : frames of wealth and economic identity in U.S. politics, 1980-2020
… dissertation, I interrogate the ways political candidates’, elite journalists’, and everyday peoples’ discourses address the U.S. political hierarchy in terms of the role(s) of money in politics and of wealth and wealth-based identities. I am interested in if and how groups in the U.S. use or …
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Political Authenticity and Cynicism on the 2016 Campaign trail
… and cynicism in the context of the 2016 presidential nominating process. Rhetorical criticism and fieldwork provide perspectives for the analysis of candidate announcement addresses, political campaign events in New Hampshire, and Republican and Democratic presidential primary debates. …
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God's army : religious conservatives at the 1992 Republican National Convention.
… had been an important voting bloc for Republican presidential candidates. They provided crucial monetary and organizational support, but they were often dissatisfied with their lack of prominence within the party. The 1992 Republican National Convention marked a turning point for both religious …
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An Examination of the No Child Left Behind Act
… of the proximity of this research to the 2008 US presidential campaign, a section of the project is devoted to the perspectives and opinions of presidential candidates, specifically, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton, on the Democrat side, and Mike Huckabee and John McCain, on the Republican. …
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Political silence, the feminine style, and Aids: The role of surrogate speakers at the 1992 presidential nominating conventions
By the 1992 presidential campaign, AIDS had become 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 …
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The politics of election coverage : a content analysis of Indiana's two largest newspapers during the 2008 presidential election
… goal of this study was to investigate the 2008 presidential election coverage of Indiana's two largest news publications - The Indianapolis Star and The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - and determine if any statistically significant differences exist. Utilizing the theories of framing and …
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The Construction of Candidate’s Political Image on Social Media: A Thematic Analysis of Facebook Comments in the 2014 Presidential Election in Indonesia
… explores the construction of the Indonesian Presidential candidates’ image during the 2014 presidential election from the perspective of Facebook users. I analyzed Facebook users’ comments derived from one of the candidate’s Facebook pages, Prabowo Subianto, by employing a thematic analysis …
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Searching for the President: Analysis of Search Engine Results from the 2008 Presidential Election
… McCain generated by Web searches for the 2008 presidential candidates. By examining the results of Google, Yahoo, and Ask.com searches, the study analyzed search engines as structural frameworks for online political information (Dahlgren, 2005) and examined the extent to which search engines …
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Voting the Bible, the Texan way : a comparative analysis of how megachurch pastors framed the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential election.
… many matters regarding politically conservative candidates. Looking specifically at the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, Texas led the 'Bible Belt' in conversations concerning politics and candidates, including the safety and sanctity of pulpits. Using framing and First Amendment theories, …
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Predicting Audience Tweet Engagement
… also with prominent figures like movie stars, presidential candidates, and even royalty. These celebrities have immense presences on social media, and each post they share has the potential to reach millions of people. As the sphere of social media influence grows increasingly large, it also …
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A Content Analysis Of 2004 Presidential Election Headlines Of The Los Angeles Times And The Washington Times
… proposed that the American perception of presidential candidates has been somewhat based on the mass media's increasing priming and agenda setting techniques (Scheufele, 2000; Kiousis & McCombs, 2004). Hence the research addressed two questions: Is there a bias for or against either …
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Campaign professionalism and the ‘birth’ of democracy. Analyzing the 2012 first multi-candidate presidential election in post-revolutionary Egypt.
This thesis studies the first Egyptian presidential election campaigns after the 25th January 2011 revolution. It aims to answer two questions: to what extent this election was professionalised and to what extent the levels of professionalism impacted the democratisation process of Egypt. To answer …
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