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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Public Opinion Survey"”.
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Fiscal and institutional factors and taxpayer culture as explanations for the 2018 VAT increase in South Africa
… a desk review and statistical analysis of a public opinion survey. By examining the underlying dynamics that influence fiscal policy decisions, it explains how fiscal and institutional factors and taxpayer culture interacted to bring about the decision to increase the VAT rate. It finds that …
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Explicit Estimates for Cell Counts and Modeling The Missing Data Indicators in Three-Way Contingency Table by Log-Linear Models
… common problem in the process of research in public health, clinical sciences and social sciences. Ignorance of missing values in the analysis can produce biased results and low statistical power. The focus of this study is to expand Baker, Rosenberger and Dersimonian (BRD) model approach to …
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Communicating the modern entrepreneurial university in the 21st century: a case study of academic capitalism and media messaging in the pursuit of revenues and national prominence at Louisiana State University
American public universities have passed through three stages of development: the religious, the philanthropic/land-grant, and the federal research university. Squeezed by government budget cuts and demands for more money to pay for research and faculty raises, U.S. higher education has entered a …
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Interest groups, public opinion, and path dependence: how Canada and the U.S diverged on healthcare policy
… a system of universal coverage through national public insurance, the United States repeatedly failed to achieve universal healthcare reform and infamously maintains its hybrid public-private system to this day. Scholars of comparative politics have produced numerous competing accounts of the …
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Political representation of the poor in the U.S. political system : a discussion of theory and practice
… The primary "informal" mechanism examined is the public opinion survey. The normative framework is grounded in the notion that being poor in an affluent nation is an attached, personal interest--a substantive understanding of the interests of the poor cannot be determined through intellectual …
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Lygių galimybių politikos įgyvendinimas Lietuvoje homoseksualių asmenų atžvilgiu /
… have been allowed to fully participate in public life. Although the Lithuanian legal system prohibits any discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, while people of non-traditional orientation still experience it, hear insulting and obscene comments, experience attacks and …
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The Feeling Economy: The Power of Emotions in U.S. Political Media
… politics. Using a nationally benchmarked public opinion survey, I explore the relationship between social media usage and ideological extremism and illustrate how exposure to ideologically extreme content on social media platforms influences self-reported ideology and policy support among …
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Increasing Speed Limit Compliance in Reduced-Speed School Zones
… through an in-depth literature review, a public opinion survey of Utah drivers, and an evaluation of the effects of speed monitoring displays (SMDs) in school zones. The main focus of the literature review was to determine how to increase and maintain speed limit compliance within school …
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Kiwi Kinksters: BDSM in Auckland, New Zealand
… against if their proclivities were made publicly known. Thus, the next section of the dissertation uses a public opinion survey to investigate how New Zealand (primarily Auckland) residents perceive BDSM and BDSM practitioners. The results from this survey demonstrate that most …
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Genetics-based research at the Minnesota State Fair: the impacts of public engagement on participatory experience
Public engagement and education of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) have become prominent topics in politics, just as the broader ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of research have become immersed in genetics-based research discourse. While STEM education rates …
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Weighted Policymaking: Federal, State and Local Politics of Obesity
… obesity shift this condition from a private to a public problem necessitating a collective solution and an understanding of it as a public policy issue. This dissertation approaches obesity from three perspectives: individual, state and federal. Using public opinion survey data, Chapter One …
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Woodland Owners Motivations for Involvement in Landscape Scale Forest Stewardship
… scenario. Cross boundary collaboration and public -private partnerships are necessary to move in the direction of large scale forest management. Understanding the attitudes, actions and motivations of PF owners is critical to success in this task.;In this study we conducted a public opinion …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Democratization and Democratic Backsliding
… violate democratic norms lose significant public support, or whether voters tend to form little constraint on democratic backsliding. To examine this fundamental question, I study a novel natural experiment created by the fact that Donald Trump’s incitement of the January 6 insurrection at …
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Explaining the India-U.S. Strategic Partnership: The Impact of Middle-Class Identity
… discourse analysis and a traditional large-n survey in a single study. This research design consists of, first, using discourse analysis of India’s select popular textual sources, and then employing the thematic categories generated from the discourse analysis to design and conduct a large-n …
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Challenges To Measuring Public Opinion: The Insincere, The Social, And The Measurement Approach
<p>Scholars often recognize public opinion as a valuable metric of the collective will to compare against decisions of political leaders, but the value of public opinion also lies in its ability to serve as a ‘collective mirror.’ Measuring public opinion provides us the ability to examine our …