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Showing 1 to 20 of 90 for “"presidential elections"”.
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Predicting Presidential Elections: An Evaluation of Forecasting
… available for predicting the winners of U.S. presidential elections. While historically the domain of individuals outside the scholarly community - such as political strategists, pollsters, and journalists - presidential election forecasting has become increasingly mainstream, as a number of …
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Korean Electoral Behavior: The 1992 and 1997 Presidential Elections
This is a study of Korean presidential elections. Its purpose is to determine how Koreans voted in the 1992 and 1997 presidential elections and to examine the factors that contributed to winners. In addition, the study compares the two elections by developing three models: candidate choice, voter …
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Political advertising in presidential elections and law making in the U.S. Congress
… areas including political advertising in presidential elections and legislating in the Congress. In the first chapter, we focus on political advertising, and the following two chapters investigate legislating output and success, as well as one special kind of legislation: earmark. …
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The effects of Conditional Cash Transfer programs on Latin American presidential elections
… dataset with information for all Latin American presidential elections carried out between 1990 and 2010 and show that investments in CCT programs have not had any significant effect on the electoral performance of incumbent candidates. Second, I explore multiple sub-national and survey data to …
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Macroeconomic Indicators of Working Class Voter Abstention in US Presidential Elections, 1948-2004
… WWII and the "puzzle of participation" in US presidential elections. More specifically, I seek to illustrate first how economic convergence within the West and then the transition from Keynesian to monetarist policy rhetoric reflexively diminish the degree to which US working class voters can …
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Running to win: The utility of the ticket-splitter theory in presidential elections
… often are the balance of power in elections, and constitute at least one-fourth of the American electorate. 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 …
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Mind the gap: Issue positions, candidate preferences, and motivated reasoning in U.S. presidential elections
… proximity. Using panel surveys from three U.S. presidential elections, I demonstrate that voters tend to spread their motivated reasoning efforts across issues and across processes. These motivated reasoning strategies are both more effective at reducing cognitive dissonance and more cognitively …
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Aggregate Electoral Change in United States Presidential Elections, 1828--1992: A Reevaluation of Realignment Theory
… returns in an attempt to identify critical elections and then building a theoretical structure to explain the findings. I attempt to cut through this dense theoretical structure and place the theory on a more deductive footing in four ways. First, I clarify the concept by identifying the …
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A normal vote approach to the nationalization of the American electorate: Presidential elections, 1828-1984
… also examine an extensive data set consisting of presidential election results from 1828 to 1984. A macro-level, longitudinal analysis of electoral behavior, and the estimate of the normal vote, requires a significant series of data."
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Aggregate electoral change in United States presidential elections, 1828--1992: A reevaluation of realignment theory
… returns in an attempt to identify critical elections and then building a theoretical structure to explain the findings. I attempt to cut through this dense theoretical structure and place the theory on a more deductive footing in four ways. First, I clarify the concept by identifying the …
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Political Participation in the Twittersphere and the Nigerian 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections: A Cultural Underpinning
This thesis explores the ongoing debate about the use of social media as tools of participatory democracy and aims to provide a better understanding of their applicability within a distinctly African context. Specifically, it investigates the role of Twitter as a new tool of political participation …
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The robust beauty of APA presidential elections: an empty-handed hunt for the social choice conundrum
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Participatory resources and African American voter turnout: A comparative analysis of the 1992 and 1996 presidential elections
This thesis examines differences between African American and White political participation. Drawing from the theoretical assumptions of pluralism and structural functionalism, the thesis conceptualizes that voter turnout can be evaluated by comparing socioeconomic, socioreligious, and political …
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Lietuvos Respublikos Prezidento rinkimų tvarka /
Regulation of the Presidential Election in the Republic of Lithuania In 1992 in the Referendum on the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania President‘s institution has been re-established.According to the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania is a democratic parliamentary republic. …
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The wages of fear: How gender, ideology, and symbolic threat influenced the voting behaviors of white southern women in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections
The purpose of this thesis is to determine whether gender, ideology, and symbolic threat predict the voting behaviors of white southern women; whether these decisions influence political affiliation of partners/spouses/family; and whether threat is weaponized to influence voting behaviors. This …
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Three essays in political economy
… on voting behavior, but it focuses primarily on presidential elections. We ask whether economically self-interested voting is unique to the presidential elections, or if it also extends to House, Senate and gubernatorial elections. In addition, for each office, we look for the presence of …
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