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Showing 1 to 20 of 114 for “"partisanship"”.
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Personal Values and Partisanship in America
<p>This thesis explains the role universal values play in several aspects of American political life.</p>
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The Role Of Partisanship In Selecting Ideal Communities
There has been much debate as to whether partisanship matters on the local level in the United States. This thesis specifically seeks to test whether partisanship plays a role in an individuals’ selection of their ideal communities. Using data from the Kinder Houston Area Survey from 1982–2013, …
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Partisanship, Friendship, and Censorship in Online Social Networks
… to influence campaigns, examining factors of partisanship, friendship, and censorship in today’s online social networks. We begin in the first chapter with an overview of social media and the key behaviors of the users of these platforms and the platforms themselves that we will be studying. …
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Special Interest Partisanship: The Transformation of American Political Parties
… the puzzle of contemporary special interest partisanship. After tracing partisanship across several measures, I develop a continuum of group-party relationships, running from fluid, unstructured interactions (akin to political pluralism) to highly institutionalized alliances (as we might see …
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Partisanship and Judicial Decision Making in U.S. Courts of Appeal
Partisanship is found in voter and Congressional behavior. Members of the federal judiciary should behave similarly. I utilize cases involving the Republican and Democratic parties from 1966 to 1997 and examine the voting behavior of federal Courts of Appeal judges. I utilize both cross tabulations …
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Jefferson's Baptists: Evangelical Partisanship in the Early American Republic, 1800-1830
After the Revolution, opportunistic settlers from Virginia began streaming over the Allegheny Mountains to settle frontier lands to the south and west. Numbered among them, Baptists came in droves, spreading not only the evangelical gospel, but also Thomas Jefferson’s unique brand of Republican …
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Partisanship and Opportunities for Additional Bipartisanship in Tech Immigration and Privacy Reform
… this paper seeks out opportunities for bipartisanship, specifically in the legislative realms of tech privacy and immigration reform. Constituencies, committee assignments, fundraising and other environmental factors can help determine a politician's level of interest in tech issues. …
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The happy median? : an examination of the role of partisanship on social spending
This thesis examines the effect of party-level partisanship on social spending outcomes. Building a model in which party-politician bargaining plays a central role in determining the passage of bills, this paper develops a theory predicting the superior performance of moderate parties in proposing …
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The impact of a voting registration law on turnout and partisanship : a case in Kansas
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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The impact of a voting registration law on turnout and partisanship : a case in Kansas
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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He is not one of U.S.: partisanship, perceptions of anti-Americanism & their consequences for democracy
… patriotism, and respect for the nation. Beyond partisanship, psychological and political orientations—system justification, populism, affective polarization, and social-dominance orientation—consistently increase perceived threat to national identity, revealing patterns in who is likely to …
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Partisanship, Election Reform and Decision-Making in the North Carolina Supreme Court: A Case Study
In 2002, the North Carolina General Assembly made several changes to the system of popular elections for the state\'s appellate courts, including the removal of partisan labels from the ballot, starting with the 2004 elections. This particular change presents an opportunity for a natural experiment …
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Lovesick: the effects of political partisanship and COVID-19 vaccine perceptions on online romantic partner selection
Many studies have reported the positive relationship of perceived political similarity with dating intention in the world of online dating. However, there are currently no studies which consider this relationship alongside coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine status and their combined influence …
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States Of Inequality: Government Partisanship, Public Policies, And Income Disparity In The American States, 1970-2005
… with increases in inequality. Second, I show how partisanship influences income disparity by identifying policy mechanisms that respond to changes in government partisanship and that also relate to changes in inequality: state public sector employment, minimum wages, and public welfare spending. …
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The successful diffusion of gender-affirming care bans in the U.S.: how partisanship functions as a mechanism of policy diffusion
… anti-trans policies, are increasingly linked to partisanship and that this results in conservative controlled states adopting policies that restrict democratic rights and freedoms.
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Constrained Partisanship: A Comparative Study of Policy Choices and Party Discourses in the British and Spanish Crisis Experiences (2008-2014)
This thesis explores the role of partisanship in shaping the policy choices and legitimizing discourses of governments during the global financial crisis. To do this, it uses comparative case studies, examining the experience of left- and right-wing governments in both the UK and Spain between 2008 …
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“Put a crapaud in a suit and people will vote for the PNM”: A critical examination of patronage, loyalty, and the structuring force of party partisanship in Trinidad
… examines an unflattering aspect of political partisanship in Trinidad: the ambivalences of being a party loyalist. Extensive scholarship on Trinidadian politics points to the confluence of race and patronage shaping political decisions yet less is spoken of the conflicting subjectivities of …
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All the president’s people? The origins of affective attachment towards political leaders
… political leaders. Drawing on scholarship about partisanship, social identity, and leader-follower relationships, this study proposes Pres-ID as an alternative conceptualization of partisanship in democracies where the traditional notion of affection to political parties is weak or absent. Across …
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Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour Party and foreign affairs 1955-63
… The Cold War was at a critical level and bi-partisanship in international affairs was expected. With Gaitskell's accession this appeared to end, marked in particular by the disputes over Suez, the independent nuclear deterrent and Britain's application to join the European Economic Community. …
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Information and identities in dynamic electoral environments
… our understanding of voter decision-making and partisanship. First, I create an original dataset of party-name changes across 43 democracies from 1990-2017, allowing scholars to quantify instances of party relabeling. Second, using these data paired with electoral surveys, I demonstrate that …
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