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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"political interest"”.
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Adaptiveness of political interest organizations to social change in the United States since 1960: a theoretical examination
… social change since 1960. These three types of interest organizations are selected because they are particularly likely to have become targets of increased popular demands for environmental protection, a value change that has constituted one of the most important aspects of social change during …
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Political Content And Political Behavior: Using Functional Theory To Test The Ability Of Political Content To Stimulate Political Interest
… up with Internet access--are engaging in formal political participation, compared to their parents. Digital natives lack the information needed to participate. This study examined the effects of interactive political content on digital natives' political information efficacy (PIE) through an …
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Laughing Our Way To Stronger Democracy: Political Comedy's Potential To Equalize Political Interest And Political Knowledge In Community College Students
<p>Political comedy is the one off-line news source – albeit soft news – that young adults access in higher rates than older adults. They are tuning into political comedy to be entertained, but while watching, they also get a healthy dose of politics. For otherwise apolitical young people, does …
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Political engagement and social networking sites exploring the relationship between social networking sites and political engagement in young adults
… of college age. Due to the increasing number of political figures and political information on SNS, this study analyzes the relationship between SNS and political engagement. Specifically, this study seeks to determine if adults' consumption of political information on SNS leads to higher levels …
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Korean Electoral Behavior: The 1992 and 1997 Presidential Elections
… models: candidate choice, voter turnout and political interest models. Using post election data from the Korean Social Science Data Center a multinomial logit regression was used in the candidate choice model. It shows that Korean voters selected their candidates mainly in terms of interest …
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Denizen politics : a comparative analysis of opposition to immigration in the European Union
… of individual belief about how extensive political membership should be that tends to reflect how denizens prioritize political and cultural aspects of membership. In situating exclusionism, I shed light on three puzzles: Which of an individual’s concerns are the strongest determinants of …
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Opening the Chamber: Daughters of the Vote and Political Ambition in Young Women
The political ambition gap between men and women is well-known, and many scholars argue it is a contributing factor to women’s underrepresentation in politics. Several women’s organizations have emerged to address the gender gap, but there is little empirical evidence on whether political …
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Exogenous Influences and Paths To Activism
… found that when the intervening variables, political interest, political awareness, exposure to media, altruism, and self-interest were introduced to both the recruited and spontaneous models, the direct effects of the variables were enhanced.
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Financial stocks and political bonds: stock market participation and political behavior in the United States and Britain
… the effect of stock market participation on political behavior. Some observers claim that financial assets—stocks and mutual funds—have a causal effect on political behavior. The “investor class theory” asserts that as people invest in the stock market their partisan attachments shift …
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Boipatong : the politics of a massacre and the South African transition
… cited as an example of state complicity in the political violence that shook the country during a period of negotiation and reform. This thesis considers the underlying forensic truths of the Boipatong massacre, but more importantly it examines the ways in which the meanings of the massacre were …
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Advancing Social Justice in Counseling Psychology: Enlisting Student Voices Through a Mixed-Methods Study
… survey and interview results supported political interest and spirituality as predictors of general activism. A general activism orientation was a strong predictor of social justice commitment specific to the profession of counseling psychology. Findings also revealed a need for future …
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Understanding the politics of Hispanic American women: Attitudes and behaviors of an emerging elite
… purpose of this study to learn more about the political attitudes and behaviors of Hispanic women in the United States. A survey with questions taken from the National Election Study was completed by 101 Hispanic women and 106 Anglo women at Texas Woman's University. The questionnaire examined …
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Miestiečio gyvenamosios erdvės modernizacija XX a. Du atvejai: tarpukario Kaunas ir sovietinis Vilnius /
… Lithuania is being seen as a reflection of political, social and cultural processes. The PhD thesis emphasizes the principal and structural similarities and differences between two modernization campaigns. In the paper is revealed the influence of different political systems on the processes …
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The modernization of the living space of the 20th century urban resident. Two cases: interwar Kaunas and Soviet Vilnius /
… Lithuania is being seen as a reflection of political, social and cultural processes. The PhD thesis emphasizes the principal and structural similarities and differences between two modernization campaigns. In the paper is revealed the influence of different political systems on the processes …
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Information And Voting In Senate Elections
… cast votes that are representative of their own political preferences. Research on such heuristics largely depend on presidential election data however, and it remains uncertain how voters respond to less salient elections where candidate information may not be as apparent and electoral …
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Political Sophistication: How Values and Social Capital Contribute to Political Knowledge and Cognition
… Schwartz should relate to social capital and political sophistication in particular ways. Individual value types that emphasize "other-orientation" should positively relate to social capital characteristics that increase information flows which in turn will relate to increased political …
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The politics of implementation : towards a pro-poor land legalization policy in Quito
… and Ward's reasoning of regarding the State as a political entity, and its policies of land as a proxy of its relation to the most vulnerable populations (Ward 1985). I ask how constitutional and legislative arrangements were implemented through different political moments, and in what ways their …
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Ideological Differences Between Whigs, Republicans and Democrats in Iowa, 1838-1860: Real or Illusory?
… has long been historical controversy surrounding political parties of the Jacksonian period. This thesis focuses on Iowa's political parties in the legislative process to determine whether there is ideological concensus or conflict on selected issues in the period from 1838 to 1860. Procedure. …
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After the honeymoon: The Obama effect on political attitudes and participation
… of a <em>lasting</em> Obama Effect on the political attitudes and behaviors of Obama supporters from 2008. Defining the Obama Effect as the extraordinary enthusiasm surrounding Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, I argue that a <em>short term</em> Obama Effect was clearly present in 2008 based on …
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From words to deeds: explaining China’s (Non)compliance with the global intellectual property rights regime since the country’s WTO entry
… enforcement capacity --because of the short term political interest in raising tax revenue and creating jobs.
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