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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"primary elections"”.
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Electability Politics: How and Why Black Americans Vote in Primary Elections
… do Black Americans make vote choice decisions in primary elections? This dissertation project answers this question by arguing that Black Americans are highly strategic voters and vote for the candidate that is perceived to be the most electable. I advance the argument that Black voters support …
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Candidate emergence and success: Evidence from women in state legislative primary elections
… influence competition, the electoral system and primary rules of a state, and traditional factors like incumbency, I test what factors determine the entry of women candidates into the primary race and what determines their success in gaining the nomination. I argue that many of these factors …
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Three essays in political economy
… an Empirical Test Using Florida's Elimination of Primary Runoff Elections", provides evidence from an empirical test of Duverger's Law and strategic voting, utilizing the 2001 decision by the state of Florida to eliminate runoffs in primary elections. Using a differences-in-differences …
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Assessing U.S. Senators' Response to a Competitive Primary Challenge with Increased Partisan Roll Call Voting
… United States discusses the notion that facing a primary election results in legislators voting in a more partisan fashion in the legislature. A common refrain of this analysis is that facing the primary election constituency (Fenno 1978) or even the threat of facing the primary election …
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Organized Labor's Influence on Local Elections: A Case History of Snohomish County, Washington
… were interviewed and results from the primary and general election 2005 were compiled. The findings support previous studies that candidates should have a strong coalition of endorsements from multiple sources, not just unions; and that monetary contributions are proportional to voting …
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A primer on primaries: Exploring the variation in U.S. primary election laws
… the variation in enfranchisement, or the type of primary, focusing on primary elections for offices below the level of the presidency (e.g., congressional, gubernatorial, state legislative, etc.). Some states’ primaries are open to all voters, while other states permit participation only by those …
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Congressional primaries and legislative behavior
Are competitive elections “good” for democracy? Competitive elections are said to symbolize the health of democracy, and their absence thus challenges the viability of the political system. But, there are actually competing expectations about the consequences of competition on representation. Close …
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Interactive Voice Response Polling in Election Campaigns
… that IVR polls conducted immediately before elections are generally accurate, but have raised questions as to their validity in other contexts. This study examines whether IVR polls generate measurably different levels of candidate support when compared to live interviewer polls, as a result …
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Do parties still matter? : the politics of gubernatorial nominations
Who controls the nomination in gubernatorial elections? This dissertation seeks to answer this simple question. Parties have classically been the organizations held responsible for throwing their collective effort behind a candidate and controlling the nominations. Yet, in recent years, scholars …
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Race of the century : Guy vs. Young, 1974 North Dakota U.S. Senate election
… the first time in the history of North Dakota primary elections and Guy's lead in the polls held steady, it appeared that Young would not be able to reverse the tide running against him.</p> <p>The reasons for the eventual reelection of Milton Young can be most effectively determined by …
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Party Time: The Working Families Party and the US Political System, 1998–2018
… albeit one that typically lacks a system of “primary” elections for selecting nominees, a core dimension of the Democratic and Republican parties. Regarding substance, the study documents the WFP’s recurring dilemma regarding its relationship with organized labor, finding that it starts off as …
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Essays in empirical political economy
… municipal, 2014 midterm, and 2016 presidential primary elections. During non-presidential elections, effects in high-minority areas are three times as large as those in low-minority areas, while no significant difference emerges from the 2012 presidential election. Finally, I use my estimates to …