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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"voter decision-making"”.
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The Impact of Campaign Visits on Predicted Voter Choice in the 2016 Presidential Election
… impact of campaign visits on levels of predicted voter choice within the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Data on discrete events throughout the campaign were collected to first determine the impact of particular newsworthy events on predicted voter choice. The data show that the impact of these …
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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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Information and identities in dynamic electoral environments
… in democracies are complex. One of the key tools voters use to simplify the information environment in elections is the party-label heuristic. However, party labels themselves change and with considerable frequency. Therefore, this dissertation investigates the consequences of party-label changes …
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The social media revolution and political activism. A case study of Zimbabwe
… public and private communication spaces to shape voter decision-making and consolidate its political messaging. In contrast, the CCC and other progressive forces, constrained by state repression, adopted alternative strategies that heavily relied on social media platforms to bypass censorship and …
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Mind the gap: Issue positions, candidate preferences, and motivated reasoning in U.S. presidential elections
Democratic norms suggest that voters should support candidates with whom they agree on the important issues of the day. When voters perceive disagreement between themselves and their preferred candidates, they often experience cognitive dissonance and react by engaging in motivated reasoning, …