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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"party identification"”.
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Television and political party identification in the states : is there a relationship?
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1985.
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Party identification: The covert influence on media's construction and portrayal of women's political identities
<p>Much scholarly attention has been paid to the differences and similarities that exist in media coverage of men and women. However, whether differences exist in media coverage among different groups of women remains largely ambiguous. This study aims to contribute to this understanding by …
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Running to win: The utility of the ticket-splitter theory in presidential elections
… Ticket-splitting is not, however, motivated by party identification. Instead the voter's evaluation of the candidate, pertinent issues, and party attitudes contribute to their choice. Candidates, therefore, can attract electoral majorities by communicating certain messages through the …
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Be Still My Heart: Determinants of Support for Capital Punishment Attitudes
… of the model. Attitudinal variables such as party identification, ideology, and religiosity are added, one-by-one, in the second stage of the model to determine their own individual effect on death penalty attitudes, and their effect on the preceding demographic variables. The result is a …
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The politics of pot : marijuana use and the potential for collective action.
… protest when separating the sample by political party identification. However, political rally attendance only shows significant relationships for marijuana users who describe themselves as politically independent.
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Racial, not rational : economic threat, symbolic racism, and affirmative action
… driven mostly by racial affect, ideology, and party identification. No matter the level at which economic threat is measured, objective economic conditions do not seem to influence one's attitudes about affirmative action.
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Conjecture and Evidence: Discovering the Costs of Contemporary American Political Ideals
… such a relationship is conditional upon the party identification of state leadership. The premise is tested by applying a series of multiplicative interaction models to a unique dataset spanning the first two years of the pandemic. Results confirm that measures of states’ structural capacity …
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Lovesick: the effects of political partisanship and COVID-19 vaccine perceptions on online romantic partner selection
… including variables such as vaccine perceptions, party identification, sensation seeking, and dating intention. Participants (N=97) were shown four avatar profiles of the opposite sex; each profile was displayed as vaccinated or unvaccinated and Democrat or Republican. Once exposed to these dating …
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Migration, Polarization, and Sorting in the American Electorate
… model estimates the separate prob- abilities of party identification in U.S. congressional districts among migrants and non-migrants.</p><p>Based on an empirical application using the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Elec- tion Study, I find that a significant number of district satisfy the sorting …
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Selected political, personality, and socio-economic characteristics of Virginia Tech Army ROTC cadets
… students in the areas of political orientation, party identification, attitudes toward an All-Volunteer Army and U.S. military involvement overseas, and scores achieved on the personal competence and strongmindedness scales. This thesis also examined the perceived levels of importance the cadets …
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Proximity, Politics and Policy Attitudes in the North American Context
… either amplify or mute the effects of political party identification or ideology on policy attitudes. An innovative aspect of this research is the integration of spatial data through geocoding (appending latitude–longitude coordinates to) respondent-level data and calculating distances to …
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Study of United States Senate voting behavior : the issue of "law-and-order", 1969-1970.
… factors. The relationship between a senator's party identification, region, tendency to support the president and political ideology and his voting behavior on law-and-order proposals was analyzed through nonparametric statistical tests. Supporters of law-and-order were typically Republican, …
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Individualized religious styles : a latent class analysis of religion and its implications for political attitudes and family formation outcomes.
… such as one's political views, political party identification, views on abortion and the death penalty. The results indicate that the six latent classes derived from the analysis serve as a significant indicator on the political outcome variables. In the final analytical chapter, the six …
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The Intersection of Threat, Disposition, and the Political
… such as biological sex, race/ethnicity, party identification, etc. However, there has not been as much focus on the psychological characteristics that make up the individual – their disposition. In this study, I argue that threat contexts will also cause those with certain dispositions to …
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The Prairie Campaign and Kennedy Caucus: A Study of Amateur Groups in North Dakota
… 3. Perceived issues differently 4. Had lower party loyalty 5. Were more likely to bolt the party</p><p>The goal is to determine if these caucuses were a cadre of younger, more educated party members motivated more by ideological concerns rather than party identification and thus, more likely …
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The political field and public relations : Competing discourses in New Zealand’s first MMP election
… election in 1996. The parties were: The National Party, the New Zealand Labour Party, New Zealand First, Act and The Alliance. The election itself was of historic importance because it was the first to be held in New Zealand under an electoral system of proportional representation. The theoretical …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Democratization and Democratic Backsliding
… over the 1891 to 1906 period. For causal identification, I exploit the fact that Norwegian districts with a greater geographical potential for hydropower generation were significantly more likely to industrialize after the nationwide introduction of hydroelectricity in 1892. In line with …
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Rinkėjų apsisprendimo (ne)balsuoti paralelių paieška Baltijos šalių, Lenkijos ir Ukrainos kontekste /
… the analyzed countries. However, age, education, party identification and political interest are one of the most commonly used variables in the voter turnout research. So based on these aspects the Baltic States, Poland and Ukraine are not that different from other consolidated democracies. But …
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Environmentalism and Environmental Constitutional Ballot Initiatives in Florida: The Elements of Support for Amendment One in 2014 in the Context of Current Environmental Attitudes.
… in levels of environmental support nationally by party, Tea Party attitudes, ideology, and certain demographic characteristics. For Floridians, the differences between the most pro-environmental respondents and the most anti-environmental are narrower; partisan identification itself is not …
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It’s more than just ‘how women think’: explaining the nature and causes of gender gaps in political preferences
… create gender gaps in vote choice and party identification (Kaufmann and Petrocik, 1999; Norrander, 1999; Kanthak and Norrander, 2004). The partisan gender gap has done a great deal to shape modern American politics. A majority of the last five presidents won office with thin margins of …