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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Reelection"”.
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Mood and moderation: Alternative images of Senate reelection seeking behavior
Representation requires a degree of responsiveness on the part of legislators to voter preferences. This effort examines a model of responsiveness built on an ideological voter-senator linkage and implicitly confined to only the last stage of each senator's term and finds it wanting. Given …
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Corruption, information, and reelection chances of incumbent parties' presidential candidates in developing countries
… (2) whether information on the radios enhances reelection chances of the incumbent parties in developing countries and (3) whether or not information about corruption changes the response of voters. Analyzing 48 elections from 33 developing countries using probit, the study finds: (1) corruption …
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Trusted Assistants: A Look at the Governing and Reelection Roles of the Vice President
… influence and his involvement in a presidential reelection campaign. The period for this thesis will begin with Richard Nixon's vice presidency and end with Al Gore's. To find a connection I will create factors that will examine both governing influence and reelection campaign involvement.
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Presidential Term Limits: Political and economic effects of reelection in Latin America (1990-2010)
… in how many times a president can run for reelection. In some countries presidents can be reelected for an unlimited number of terms; others allow presidents to be reelected for up to two consecutive terms; others establish that presidents must wait at least one or two terms before …
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Incentive Contracts for Politicians
… reward the politician in case of a successful reelection; b) reelection threshold contracts which mean that a politician should only have the right to stand for reelection if he has fulfilled certain requirements during his term of office. The results suggest that both types of incentive …
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Congressional primaries and legislative behavior
… on representation. Close elections may increase reelection-oriented legislators’ responsiveness to the interests of their constituents. However, time, effort, and resources spent campaigning in the district means time taken away from governing in Washington DC. Further, the increased focus on …
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The Permanence of Race: Governor Deval Patrick and the Deracialization Concept
… Deval Patrick's first administration and reelection campaign. The study use critical discourse analysis to explore how race as a discursive social construct was present in the speeches made by Governor Deval Patrick from June 2007 through June 2010. The discursive presence of race is also …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Elections
… the study of incumbency advantage as the rate of reelection of Irish politicians is one of the highest in the world. Moreover its electoral system of proportional repre- sentation with a single transferable vote (PR-STV) creates strong incentives for incumbent candidates to cultivate a loyal …
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Revealed corruption and electoral accountability in Brazil: How politicians anticipate voting behavior
… happens because mayors attempt to preserve their reelection chances by signaling fiscal responsibility. The second chapter shows how mayors that are not directly audited, but are in municipalities close to those with mayors exposed as corrupt, tend to seek reelection under different parties more …
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The Dynamics of Congressional Behavior: Natural Experiments in Roll Call Voting, 1947--1997
… voting behavior influences their prospects for reelection. More specifically, I focus upon two factors thought to have an influence on members' roll call voting behavior: political parties and constituencies. I find that members who switch party affiliation while serving in Congress make …
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Dissent From Bourbon On-Party Rule: The 1878 Georgia Fourth District Congressional Election
… and John King, supported Harris's campaign for reelection. Persons was ably assisted by a local Jewish merchant, Raphael Jacob Moses.</p>
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A Comparative Pentadic Analysis of Mediated Presidential Discourse During 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina
… of his rhetorical leadership. Following his reelection in 2004, President Bush faced one of the worst natural disasters in the nation's history: Category 4 Hurricane Katrina. In its aftermath, Katrina became known as "one of the worst mishandled disasters ever." Utilizing Kenneth Burke's …
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Local Television News, Political Participation and Political Knowledge
… participation, and incumbents have lower reelection rates.
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International Organizations as Information Providers: How Investors and Governments Utilize Optimistic IMF Forecasts
… and thus increase government's chances for reelection.</p>
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National Power and Military Force: the Origins of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980-1984
… times. Two-weeks following Reagan's landslide reelection victory, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger articulated six tests for when and how to use military force, which surprisingly seemed to call for restraint. Through the examination of three case studies, the Reagan administration's …
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Continuity and change in congressional campaigns
… which are both motivated by their pursuit of reelection and their limited ability to learn about the effectiveness of their campaign strategies. From my longitudinal analysis, I reveal novel insights about how past experiences contextualize how MCs respond to their present circumstances. …
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"Make no little plans." : big moves for the post-industrial city
… fear and apprehension leveled in the face of reelection-minded city leaderships, institutionalized planning bureaucracies and developer-driven market forces. The notion that cities evolve in well-proportioned, single-serving digestible bites is as untenable as the notion that a singular …
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What's the Public Got to Do With It? The Impact of Public Opinion on Judicial Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of Abortion Case Outcomes
… which are heard within two years of that judge’s reelection and includes all competitive judicial elections from 1980-2018. While public opinion continues to be highly significant to judge decisions on abortion cases, when the case was heard was not significant. The third paper examines the …
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Presidential Power, Historical Practice, and Constraints
… States, and economic wellbeing may lead to reelection of a president.
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The Relationship Between an Incumbent Governor's Popularity and State Legislative Election Outcomes: A Contemporary Assessment of the Coattails Phenomenon
… years, when an incumbent governor is seeking reelection. The consistent statistical significance associated with both variables representing the governor's popularity indicates that partisan "cues" may be pertinent factors that help determine voting behavior in state legislative elections.
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