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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"U.S. presidential elections"”.
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Mind the gap: Issue positions, candidate preferences, and motivated reasoning in U.S. presidential elections
… proximity. Using panel surveys from three U.S. presidential elections, I demonstrate that voters tend to spread their motivated reasoning efforts across issues and across processes. These motivated reasoning strategies are both more effective at reducing cognitive dissonance and more cognitively …
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Predicting Presidential Elections: An Evaluation of Forecasting
… available for predicting the winners of U.S. presidential elections. While historically the domain of individuals outside the scholarly community - such as political strategists, pollsters, and journalists - presidential election forecasting has become increasingly mainstream, as a number of …
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The Rise of Social Media in Presidential Campaigns
… social media, has fundamentally changed the way presidential candidates' campaign in the United States. The evolution of the internet has created a heightened level of scrutiny for candidates but has also provided a resource that grants unprecedented access and reach to potential voters. …
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Essays on Electoral Models
… people vote for candidates certain to lose in elections. Building on this idea, I provide a framework where the decision of whether to vote sincerely or strategically is an endogenous choice that responds to election-specific characteristics, rather than a characteristic of a voter. Using both …
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Political advertising in presidential elections and law making in the U.S. Congress
… areas including political advertising in presidential elections and legislating in the Congress. In the first chapter, we focus on political advertising, and the following two chapters investigate legislating output and success, as well as one special kind of legislation: earmark. …
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What Happened? An Examination of Critical Change in the 2016 Election
The 2016 U.S. presidential election results surprised many, after several groups many believed to be surefire voters for Democrats based on previous elections voted for Republican Donald Trump (Bump, 2016). Whenever a change takes place in voter patterns, one begins to hear phrases like “critical …
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Essays in Experimental and Public Economics
… analysis of the 1988, 1992, and 1996 U.S. Presidential elections.</p><p>To summarize, this thesis contributes to the literature on group incentive mechanisms, with chapter 1 being the first experimental study on inter-team competition with an endogenously determined prize level in a stage …