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Showing 1 to 20 of 541 for “"vote"”.
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Majority vote process on general sructures
The majority vote process (MVP) was one of the earliest interacting particle systems (IPS) to be explored, but little progress has been made except on Z and the d-ary regular trees Td, with d ≥ 5. This thesis considers the majority vote process defined on more general structures (S, N ), where S …
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Predicting the Vote Using Legislative Speech
… Court can attest, it is possible to guess vote outcomes based on statements made during deliberations or questioning by the voting members. In most forms of representative democracy, citizens can actively petition or lobby their representatives, and that often means understanding their …
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Union representation elections : campaign and vote
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1981.
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Increasing Polarization of the Youth Vote
… had attained the age of eighteen the right to vote. Having passed 96-0 in the Senate and 401-19 in the House of Representatives, the amendment was widely considered a bipartisan effort with minimal resistance from within the two major political parties. This paper seeks to determine how this …
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The determinants of vote choice in Portugal
… in Portugal to study the factors which determine vote choice among Portuguese voters. Covering three elections (the 1980 Presidential election, the 1982 Local elections and the 1983 General election) the study was started six years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974 which restored Democracy …
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Effect Of Candidate Spending On Vote Share
… on the effect that candidate spending has on vote share has produced conflicting results, with some research finding that only spending by challenger candidates has an effect on the vote outcome and other research finding incumbent and challenger spending roughly equally effective. The paper …
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Cross-pressures, communication behavior and the hereditary vote
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Communication, 1967
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Motivational Factors Affecting a Person's Intention to Vote
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T19:06:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7606822.pdf: 8452616 bytes, checksum: 346e96e8fcc2d0846caf57863a6d888b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Foreign policy issue ownership, interstate conflict, and U.S. vote intention
The literature on issue ownership shows that voters use ownership opinions when evaluating parties on salient issues. The audience costs literature shows that interstate conflict can significantly affect voter behavior. Due to these topics being studied in isolation from one another, it is unclear …
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Machine-aided analysis of vote privacy using computationally complete symbolic attacker
… and verifying the security property of vote privacy for electronic voting protocols in the provable security model. As an example, we consider analyzing the FOO electronic voting protocol introduced by Fujioka, Okamoto, and Ohta. Several automated analyses have been carried for the FOO …
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Electability Politics: How and Why Black Americans Vote in Primary Elections
<p>How 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 …
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Chasing the vote : developments in the ways political parties conduct election campaigns
… techniques allow campaigners to target voters in more precise ways, using personalised literature, email and the internet. Greater dependence on technology has led to the role of central party organisations becoming more dominant; many of the new approaches are also more costly than …
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Social networking sites and intent to vote in the 2008 presidential election.
… social networking sites and the users' intent to vote in the 2008 presidential election. By surveying a group of undergraduate students, most of whom are users, if not frequent users of social networking sites, the study attempts to find out what students feel is influencing whether or not they …
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"If the people vote, the people win!": The radical right in France
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Beyond Rocking the Vote: An Analysis of Rhetoric Designed to Motivate Young Voters
… to solve the continued problem of low youth voter turnout in the U.S. have included get out the vote drives, voter registration campaigns, and public service announcements targeting 18- to 25-year-old voters. Pay Attention and Vote added to this effort to motivate young voters in its 2006 …
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Opening the Chamber: Daughters of the Vote and Political Ambition in Young Women
… This thesis uses the Daughters of the Vote (DOV) program to investigate the efficacy of these initiatives and provide greater insight into young women’s political ambition. These findings highlight both the promise and limitations of political encouragement programs. This study employs …
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The Effects of Campaign Contributions and Vote-Trading on United States Sugar Policy
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000.
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A comparison of the small group decision-making techniques of majority vote and consensus.
… gap by examining the two processes of majority vote and consensus. Eighty subjects were divided into nine groups of approximately nine each. Each individual reached a decision concerning the best selective service system, and then the groups reached group decisions, three groups using the …
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Community carrots and social sticks : why the poor vote in a dominant-party system
In dominant-party states, why do individuals vote in elections with foregone conclusions when they are neither bought nor coerced? It is especially curious in these cases why the rural poor decide to cast their ballots. I posit that communities that collectively rely on the government for public …
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