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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Voting Patterns"”.
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Scale and the Interpretation of Voting Patterns in Virginia, 2003-2006
… analysis can give different interpretations of voting patterns, this research gathered data from a series of elections that took place in Virginia. These elections, which occurred between 2003 and 2006, span a variety of federal and state offices, with each presiding over a certain geographic …
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Iowa statewide voting patterns:1891-1912: naturalization does not create voting citizens
<p>Analysis of voting in political history can be problematic if sampling is used without regard for demographics, location, and participation rates. This project used population data, rather than sampling, from the township level, for the entire state of Iowa, beginning with the 1890 census …
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Developing methods for understanding the nature of voting patterns and party competition in Britain
… in order to improve our understanding of voting patterns and party competition in Britain. The thesis comprises five sections, each of which relates to a particular research focus. The first and principal section describes the process of determining a new method for decomposing electoral …
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(Dis)unity in the UN Security Council: Voting Patterns in the UN's Peace and Security Organ
… and West. While this was certainly the case, voting patterns in the UN Security Council present a more nuanced picture. Counterintuitively, France, the United Kingdom and the United States—three of the five permanent members of the Security Council (the Permanent 3 or P3) and members of the …
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“They’re bringing Drugs... They’re bringing Crime... They’re Rapists”: Exploring Latino Immigration, Crime, and Voting Patterns in the 2016 Presidential Election
<p>The political race for the 2016 United States President brimmed with conflict over an array of issues, notably Latino immigration from Mexico and Latin America to the U.S. The rhetoric of then Presidential Candidate Donald Trump centered around the idea that Mexico was not sending its finest …
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A comparative study of the respective voting patterns of Virginia High School students and adults in the 1956 presidential election
… correlation of .83 between pupils' and adults' voting throughout the State. Such a finding gave rise to speculation to the effect that the community environment had influenced pupils' political thinking to considerable extent. However, upon closer examination, it was noted that, in most cases, …
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A critical appraisal of South Africa's voting patterns on resolutions of the United Nations Human Rights Council in the period 2008- 2010 and 2013-2015
… many occasions in the UNHRC, it has been found voting opposite to these values. In this regard, it has been found aligning itself with the countries known for poor human rights records. Subsequently, this raises the question of whether the current foreign policy of South Africa is still driven …
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Congress and Early Federalist Military Policy: An Examination of Defense Related Roll Calls in the Second United States Congress, 1792-1793
… to discover the existence of congressional voting patterns. This method examines the voting behavior of paired congressmen to determine similar voting behavior. I separated the roll calls dealing with the issues of a stronger, reorganized militia from those pertaining to a more potent …
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A study of political and sectional voting alignments in the United States Senate, 1921-1929
… tests this conclusion through an examination of voting patterns in the United States Senate from the 67th through the 70th Congress (1921-29), Virtually every political history of the era touches upon Senate voting alignments, but there is no extant study with the scope, structure, and …
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The impact of foreign aid on voting inside the United Nations
… foreign aid donations and a recipient nation's voting patterns in the United Nations General Assembly. Tests in the past have not employed thorough methodologies to deal with the abundance of variables that influence a nation's voting behavior. The methodology created in this research focuses on …
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Evangelical Democrats and role conflict.
… aligned with the Republican Party in their voting patterns and opinions since the late 1970's. As a result, this alignment of Evangelical Protestantism with the GOP could present a dilemma for Evangelical Democrats, whose religious and political identities are perceived by many to be in …
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Why is the South so Conservative? A Marxian Analysis of Alienation, Religion, and Political Ideology Among Poor Southern White Voters
… to use Marxist theory of alienation to explain voting patterns among impoverished Southerners. This research is important in explaining the relationship among alienation, religiosity, politics of opposition, and their impact on voting trends in the southern portion of the United States. I will …
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Restoration, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Liberty at Last in Clarke County, Virginia, 1865-1879
… solidarity by demonizing blacks. Black and white voting patterns show how well the editors of the local newspaper, the Clarke Courier, encouraged the restoration of white supremacy with their negative writing about African Americans. White concerns about potential black challenges to their …
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Party system institutionalization and nationalization in dominant party systems
… in the regions and the unification of regional voting patterns in authoritarian countries.
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Using Geovisual Analytics to investigate the performance of Geographically Weighted Discriminant Analysis
… to examine the relationship between county level voting patterns in the 2004 US presidential election and five socio-economic indicators. This research builds on existing techniques to interpret the GWDA output and provides additional insight into the processes driving the classification. It also …
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Assessing changing relations between the Russian Federation and South Africa
… status as a major world power. The study traces voting patterns of Russia and South Africa within the UN Security Council, and discusses opportunities in the BRICS forum (spanning four continents) for bilateral economic engagement. Collaboration with South Africa in the Security Council and in …
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Three essays on environmental and regulatory economics
… translate into policy changes, as proxied by voting for Republicans and by changes in representatives’ voting behavior. We find that a 1% increase in a state’s unemployment rate decreases the probability of a respondent prioritizing environmental protection over economic growth by 0.21-0.67%. …
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The Impact of Disasters on Politics: How Resilience Influence Disaster Requests and Voting in Communities
… share toscrutinize how resilience influences voting patterns at the county level. The findings underscorethat resilience significantly influences the probability of governors seeking disaster assistance,with a notable correlation between these requests and counties that supported the …
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Texas Annexation and the Presidential Election of 1844 in the Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana, Newspaper
… newspapers, the Congressional Globe and national voting patterns on Texas annexation were examined. Analysis of the editorial articles in the above newspapers offers the best possibility of understanding public sentiment toward Texas annexation and the presidential election of 1844. The evidence …
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Entering one-party dominant democracy in South Africa : political institutions, social demographies and party strategies, 1994-1999
… that rely on historical conditions and voting patterns driven by ascriptive identities, this study offers an explanation of events that focuses on the role of political institutions and social demographics in structuring the incentives that shape strategic choices made by political …
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