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Showing 1 to 20 of 334 for “"partisan"”.
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In Viewership We Trust? Exploring Relationships Between Partisan Cable News and Mass Partisan Sentiment
… trends: namely, sharply intensifying negative partisanship, partisan patterns of media trust, increasingly partisan content on cable news networks, and increased viewership of these networks. A large portion of this literature, as well as journalistic research, has predominantly focused on …
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Presidential power and partisan polarization
Since the publication of the first edition of Richard Neustadt's Presidential Power in 1960 the two political parties in the United States have grown further and further apart ideologically, especially in the United States Congress. This essay evaluates how that polarization has fundamentally …
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Student Partisan Identity and Online Discussions
… science and psychology. While political partisanship looms large over discussions of the national political climate’s influence on schools and classrooms, very little work exists that directly examines the effects of high school students’ political beliefs. Prior research on adults …
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Women as Party Leaders: Are the Barriers Partisan?
<p>Even though women make up roughly 51% of the population of the United States, they are underrepresented in all branches of American government. Although there has been recent literature on women in politics and women and parties, very little has been done on women in party leadership. Research …
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Enhancing democratic communication? Television and partisan politics in Palestine
… in the transition to democracy, the existence of partisan media may be able to fulfil a role in contributing to the democratization of Palestine. The two television channels do provide limited functions of democratic communication to their own factions, so between them they may benefit Palestinian …
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The Reluctant Partisan: Nathanael Greene's Southern Campaigns, 1780-1783
… command in the southern theater but developed a partisan approach due to problems he faced in the region. Greene effectively kept his army supplied to such an extent that it remained in the field to oppose the British with very little outside assistance. He reluctantly utilized a partisan …
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Explaining Partisan Change Among Catholics In The American Electorate
… policy attitudes account for limited change in partisan alignment among American Catholics. The analyses expose the long-term, durable nature of partisan attachment, as older generation Catholics who register as actively committed to their religion also remain committed Democrats. Therefore, …
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Twentieth-Century Elections in Illinois: Patterns of Partisan Change
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Partisan politics and the resolution of international economic disputes
… This dissertation investigates how government partisanship shapes settlement behavior across major ISDS claims, which involve substantial infringements on the property rights of foreign direct investment (FDI), and minor ISDS claims, which stem from government regulatory actions. I argue that …
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Partisan identification in Africa : an exploratory study in Mozambique
In this study the sources of partisan identification in Mozambique are examined. It examines whether reported identification with the governing or opposition parties is related to the kinds of factors usually identified in the comparative literature on partisan identification and voting behaviour. …
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The partisan politics that led to the Spanish-American War
This thesis explores how partisan politics played a major role in leading the United States into the Spanish-American War. With the unprecedented economic depression that began in 1893, many American politicians exploited a rebellion in Cuba to distract Americans from their own financial problems. …
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Getting the message: a transcendental phenomenology of youth experiences of persuasive (partisan) and informative (non-partisan) campaigns during the 2019 Canadian and United Kingdom general elections.
… question: "what experiences do youth have of partisan and non-partisan campaigns in electoral situations?" The rationale for researching this question is found within the field of campaign effects research, where myriad factors are explored, in order to understand how these integral facets of …
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A Blue-Green Divide? Elite and Mass Partisan Dynamics in Taiwan
… dissertation aims to investigate the bases of partisan differentiation and degree of polarization since Taiwan's 2000 presidential election. By employing American concepts and theories of partisan polarization, I analyze Taiwan's party politics at both the elite and mass levels. At the elite …
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Unintended Politics: The Prevalence of Partisan Opinion Expression in Incidental Political Discussions
… political discussions are more likely to contain partisan opinion expression on the same issue than purposive political discussions. In addition, the level of incivility did not differ between the two kinds of discussions. This study implies that non-political spaces may become more partisan than …
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The Soldier and the Citizen: Examining the U.S. Military’s Non-partisan Norms
… dissertation improves our understanding of non-partisan norms in the U.S. military. These norms are an essential part of American civil-military relations because they help ensure the military does not use its latent political power to influence domestic politics or become aligned with a …
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ECONOMIC VOTING DYNAMICS: ELECTORAL IMPLICATIONS OF MONETARY POLICY SHIFTS AND PARTISAN POLICY
… aspects. First, it refines the Rational Partisan Theory by developing a special case of the policy rule to the existing discretionary policy assumption. The refinement provides a macroeconomic interpretation of the diminished effects of inflation in congressional midterm elections since …
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Examining Partisan Advantage In Congressional Maps Using Simulations Based On Election Data
<p>Partisan gerrymandering has been and will continue to be a topic of interest in the coming years. States will soon begin their redistricting process following the 2020 Census. We introduce a method of simulating Congressional elections which provides a new way of examining and visualizing the …
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Meeting in the Middle: The Impact of Single-Party Dominance on Partisan Politics
… One of the most readily apparent results of this partisan atmosphere is the increase in the number of American states that are almost totally controlled by one of the two major political parties. This study seeks to examine the effect this single-party domination has on the policy positions of …
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