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A Theory of Presidential Nominations
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The Dynamics Of Compression On Presidential Nominations
The way in which political parties in the United States choose to nominate presidential candidates is a dynamic process. States operate with a great deal of autonomy as to when and what type of contest to hold, strategic candidates seek to enter the race at an advantageous time, and voters adjust …
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Nominations to the Supreme Court, 1893-1908
… Roosevelt, was selected with a purpose. The nominations during the first sixty years of the Court's existence have already been thoroughly investigated and set forth by Floyd E. McCaffree in his doctoral dissertation undertaken at the University of Michigan in 1938. Of what remained, the …
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Do parties still matter? : the politics of gubernatorial nominations
… effort behind a candidate and controlling the nominations. Yet, in recent years, scholars have noted a steady weakening of American political parties through a succession of major alterations in the political landscape: the loss of patronage-based organizations traditionally used to uphold …
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Analyzing the Effects of Preprimary Broadcast Media on Presidential Nominations from 1980-2016
<p>This study attempts to discover if broadcast media released during the preprimary period has an effect on the Presidential nomination process, and if so in what way? Several OLS regression models, based on Randall Adkins and Andrew Dowdle’s Presidential nomination forecasting models, were …
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Analysis of Senate voting behavior on Supreme Court nominations, 1969-1970 : a study of party membership, sectional representation and ideology.
… presents a brief survey of past Supreme Court nominations in order to acquaint the reader with the intricate processes of selecting Supreme Court justices. This introduction also contains a section in which theories of legislative voting behavior are presented. These theories are examined in …
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Preschool Play Behaviors: The Relationship to Sociometric Status, Divergent Thinking and Classroom Materials
… tests and a divergent thinking task. Positive nominations, negative nominations, and play rating scores were correlated with play behaviors. A negative relationship exists between onlooker and unoccupied behaviors and positive nominations and play rating scores. Most forms of group play were …
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Children’s Positive Peer Relationships and their Bullying Behaviors: A Latent Profile Analysis
… for classifying children based on positive peer nominations and contribute to the field’s understanding of high-status bullies who maintain social resources despite bulling behaviors (e.g., van der Ploeg et al., 2020). Both reciprocated and one-sided (i.e., received and sent) positive peer …
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Effect of students' behavioral characteristics on teachers' referral decisions in gifted education
… shows that biases exist in regard to teacher nominations for gifted programs in the areas of student gender, ethnicity, and SES. On the other hand, there is a lack of research regarding behavioral characteristics of the student and the impact of those characteristics on teacher nominations to …
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Essays on the evaluation of novel ideas
… ranks unproduced scripts based on anonymous nominations from film executives. This approach entails an inherent trade-off: low participation costs enable high response rates; but nominations lack standard criteria, and which voters see which ideas is unobservable and influenced by various …
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Contextual Influences on Peer Acceptance and the Social Behavior of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities
… Peer acceptance was associated with rates of nominations for Like to live with, Not like to live with, and Mean in the home and Nice, Least Popular, and Best Friend at work. Social status groups differed on rates of positive nominations across settings with popular peers receiving nominations …
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Attributional style: a comparison of assertive and aggressive children
… by subjects’ peers and teacher's behavioral nominations of subjects for aggressive or assertive status provided information about subjects’ social environment. Fourth and fifth graders identified as aggressive or assertive on the basis of teacher nominations were compared in terms of …
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Peer Sexual Harassment in Middle School: Classroom and Individual Factors
… (i.e., flirting, dating and opposite sex nominations). Moreover, this is the first study that has used classroom demographic factors (i.e., percent male and class size) to predict PSH. Thus, the current cross-sectional study adds to the literature by examining the associations of …
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Influence of Peer Group Norms on Aggression in Early Adolescence
… were followed over a one-year period. Peer nominations on aggression, social preference and peer perceived popularity were collected. Social networks were derived through Social Cognitive Mapping. Two important features were novel in this study. Following previous findings on group members' …
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Correlates of learning disabled students' social acceptance in mainstream classrooms
… with friendship ratings and moderately with peer nominations, suggesting that being less well known was significantly related to being rated as an undesirable playmate. Although LD students were perceived by peers as less physically attractive, less academically skilled, and less socially skilled, …
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Social status in the early adolescent peer system in the United States and China
… perceived popularity, and admiration) nominations of their peers. They also reported on their antisocial behavior and academic engagement at these time points. In both the United States and China, peer nominations of youth’s positive behavior were predictive of their heightened social …
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Friendship formation in early adolescence
… of Grade 7, participants completed sociometric nominations. Upon entry to Grade 7, they identified same-gender target peers who they had just met and with whom they thought they would become friends, and reported their perceptions of these relationships throughout Grade 7. Sociometric …
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Escape Beneath: An Original Game Score Inspired by an Analysis of Garry Schyman's Music
… industry. His music has received many awards and nominations throughout the years. Despite this, research and analysis into his compositions and techniques are almost non-existent. This thesis studies his techniques within the video-game scores for <em>BioShock</em>, <em>BioShock 2</em>, …
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The style and content of maternal consulting: Predictors of kindergarten children's peer competence?
… peer status and number of mutual best friend nominations. In addition, the content of mothers' consulting was associated with children's asocial behavior, exclusion by peers, hyperactive-distractible behavior, and perceptions of peer support. The findings highlight the importance of …
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A primer on primaries: Exploring the variation in U.S. primary election laws
Candidate nominations in the U.S. are governed by an intricate system of laws and party rules that vary substantially across the states. The reasons why these laws and rules differ—and the considerations that motivate state elected officials and party leaders to change them—are not well understood. …
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