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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"vote choice"”.
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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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The Impact Of Black Political Representation On The Racial Attitudes, Policy Preferences, And Vote Choice Of Whites In Minority Majority Congressional Districts
… of Representatives, political scientists have devoted very little scholarship to examining how whites react to African American leadership. Given that African Americans remain under represented in government and current legal challenges threaten the future of minority majority districts, it is …
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Holy Books Or Pocket Books? Class And Values In American Politics
… and moral values have increasing influences on vote choice and partisan identification. It is also determined that moral values currently has more influence on presidential votes, but there is no clear indication that values are consistent indicators of House vote choice or partisan …
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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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The Role of Authoritarianism in the 2020 Election
… data is employed to predict 2020 presidential vote choice among white respondents, with particular focus on the sociopolitical conditions surrounding the election and the issues with which authoritarianism has been consistently associated.</p>
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Finding the swing voter : definitions and survey methods for voter classification
… to political information onto a theory of vote decisionmaking and then further onto measurable survey response. Using on-line processing based in emotion, voters form affective summaries about candidates, which store previous information as an emotional response. The act of voting is …
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The Determinants of Voting Behavior in Turkey
… religious, ethnic, and socio-economic factors in vote choice among Turkey’s citizens. Utilizing a large nationwide survey of 10,393 people conducted in 2010 in 59 provinces, this study finds that the most important cleavages among Turkey’s voters are religious (the degree of importance they place …
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Post-Materialism: Its Impact on Presidential Election Year Issues, 1972-2000
… supporters as defined by their presidential vote. This relationship also holds true for the 'most significant issue facing the nation' variable in the National Election Studies and presidential vote choice. These results are reproduced in a completely different data set of active political …
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Information And Voting In Senate Elections
… studies on information shortcuts and electoral vote choice show that challenges to classic democratic theory are largely exaggerated. Namely, there is now convincing evidence towards Americans having the ability to cast votes that are representative of their own political preferences. Research …
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Group Heterogeneity and Affective Polarization Within The Democratic Party
… affective polarization and its effects on vote choice in the general elections.
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Absent Mandate? The Role of Positional Issues in Canadian Elections
… issues have little effect on how individuals vote and that parties have little incentive to develop issue-based electoral strategies. Such a characterization of electoral dynamics is particularly prevalent in Canada. An enduring view holds that Canadian parties engage in "brokerage politics" …
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How Voters Use Issues
… constituencies. But, in practice, how much of voter decision-making is driven by political issue information? Much of the literature on this topic has narrowly debated whether the mass public uses issues at all, with influential work concluding that citizens seem largely unable or unwilling to …
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A Constructivist Analysis of Perceptions of 1980 Presidential Candidates
… interest in the campaign, measures of probable vote choice and certainty of that choice, measures of reasons for attending to or avoiding campaign messages, measures of reported exposure to a variety of campaign-related, mass-mediated messages, and measures of reported discussions concerning the …
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PREJUDICE TOWARD MUSLIM AMERICANS AND AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION
… plays a more important role in determining vote choice for hypothetical Muslim candidates than political orientations, authoritarian personality, and religious traditionalism. The subsequent empirical evidence also suggests that prejudice toward the band of others shaped the tendency to …
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SITUATIONS AND PUBLIC EUROSCEPTICISM: TOWARDS A RELATIONAL UNDERSTANDING OF DISCONTENT WITH THE EU
… as EU membership support and Eurosceptic vote choice. Our results provide empirical support to our presumptions and establish situations as significant indicators of both citizens’ perceptions of their countries’ membership in the EU and also their reactional electoral preferences from …
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A Comprehensive Examination of the Determinants and Consequences of Political Trust among Latinos
… trust have on Latino policy preferences and vote choice? Utilizing survey data of Californians, evidence I find that acculturation and country-of-origin variables account for differences between Latinos and non-Latinos, and that socio-economic variables do not. Latinos of Mexican origin are …
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An architecture study of a Byzantine-resilient processor using authentication
… messages and then using a full-set majority vote choice() function to calculate the group consensus value. Finally, the proposed synchronization protocol needed to provide synchronized virtual clocks on all nonfaulty processors is placed on top of a full message exchange (FME) known as a …
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Are Ethnically Heterogeneous Cities More Democratic? Explaining the Sub-national Component of Consociationalism in Post-Conflict Countries.
… propose a novel explanation for individual level vote choice for multiethnic parties that is caused by possessing higher levels of interethnic tolerance, as well as ethnic diversity and economic development at the local level. This dissertation shows that the presence of subnational …
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Candidates, the economy and voting behavior
… and negative partisanship is critical to vote choice. Negative affection to the opposition party leads voters to be more loyal to their own party. A natural question then arises, that is, do candidates matter to negative partisanship? Do they promote strong oppositions by emphasizing …
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