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Showing 1 to 20 of 433 for “"voters"”.
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How Voters Use Issues
… In this dissertation, I argue the debate of how voters decide is a false dichotomy and that pitting issue voting against non-issue voting has limited our understanding of political decision-making. Through a series of original survey experiments and analysis of multiple panel datasets, I show …
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Counting votes right : strategic voters versus strategic parties
… lower bound for the extent of strategic voting. Voters are strategic if they switch their vote from their favorite candidate to one of the main contenders in a tossup election. High levels of strategic voting are a concern for the representativity of democracy and the allocation efficiency of …
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The Impact of a Ballot Education Program on Arkansas Voters
… Public Policy Center has educated Arkansas voters about statewide ballot issues for 10 years. The ballot issue education program, was evaluated during the 2014 election cycle to determine the program’s impact on voters. This descriptive study sought to describe program participants, to …
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Party positions and the seats/votes relationship with ideological voters
… Chapter 3 is based on ideological voters. With purely ideological voters, party vote share depends on the distribution of voters in the entire country. Seat share depends on distribution of district medians. The seats/votes curve is therefore a combination of two different …
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Voting Behaviour in Hungary – Are Voters Sophisticated Optimisers or Clueless Rubes?
1) Új adatbázis alkotása a. A disszertáció első és egyik legnagyobb hozzájárulása az irodalomhoz egy új, mikroszintű adatbázis létrehozása. Az adatbázist a TÁRKI Omnibusz kérdőíves kutatásaiból építettük. Az Omnibusz kutatásai 1000 fős, a felnőtt (a 18 éves és idősebb) magyarországi lakosságot …
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How the Ethical Positions of Voters and Politicians Matter in a Democracy
… matters, are they likely to be punished by voters? Third, who distances from the ethical core of their society? Alternatively, who among citizens holds ethical views that align with the broader values of their society? In three different chapters of my dissertation, I provide empirical …
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School and Community Communications: A Study Comparing Informed and Actively Interested Voters
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Memory and voting: neuropsychological and electrophysiological investigations of voters remembering political events
… research: what kinds of campaign information do voters retrieve from memory and how do they use this information to make political choices? The first study examines a prominent claim in public opinion that states that citizens can vote for candidates whose issue positions best reflect their own …
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The political psychology of perceptions of Latino voters and of Latino politicians
In my dissertation, I examined how the American public perceives Latino citizens and Latino representatives, particularly with respect to perceptions of political ideology. Political scientists have made great strides with regard to the consequences of race in American politics, and my dissertation …
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Beyond Rocking the Vote: An Analysis of Rhetoric Designed to Motivate Young Voters
… announcements targeting 18- to 25-year-old voters. Pay Attention and Vote added to this effort to motivate young voters in its 2006 campaign. This thesis analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the Pay Attention and Vote campaign advertisements, measures their effectiveness, and adds …
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Collective Bargaining and Public Education Expenditures: Do Teachers’ Unions Propose and Voters Dispose?
<p>This dissertation examines how collective bargaining by teachers’ unions affects public school expenditures in the United States, under different collective bargaining laws. It offers a unified empirical framework to test for the relative influence of the budget-maximizing bureaucracy model and …
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Seeing is Believing: The Strategy Behind Campaign Imagery and its Impact on Voters
… has focused only on emotional effects. But can voters learn something with the sound turned off? Do voters use campaign images to make inferences about a candidate’s issue positions and ideology? I use a multi-method approach to examine how voters use the information contained in campaign …
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Political behaviour in the United Kingdom: An examination of Members of Parliament and Voters
This thesis builds on quantitative British politics scholarship with four papers unified by a strong emphasis on positivist theory, research design and cutting edge statistical methodology. I examine political behaviour among representatives in the UK's House of Commons and voting behaviour in the …
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Long Term Policy Goals Under Electoral Competition Given Varied Temporal Discount Rates Among Voters
… are held accountable to voter preferences, where voters tend to be myopic, making investment difficult. Further, the costs and benefits of an investment are often distributed unevenly across voters. Thus investments take a two dimensional shape, creating both cross-sectional and inter-temporal …
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Do Social Values Trump Economics for Wealthy Voters: An Empirical Analysis of "Trading and Voting"
… and theoretical election-contingent securities, voters could financially hedge against the outcome of an election so that social values and ideology were the only factors determining their vote. Mattozzi (2008) found that creating a portfolio of such election-contingent securities was realistic. …
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Voting behavior and social class among eighteen to twenty-one-year-old registered voters in Waco, Texas.
Using an eclectic methodology and a pragmatic definition of knowledge, Hans Morgenthau has constructed a model for understanding international politics. Two assumptions regarding human nature and group behavior undergird a structure build around two poles, "national interests" and "community." From …
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Political Participation as a Social Activity: Examining the Relationship of Facebook Endorsements and Political Participation in Young Voters
… influence on political participation in youth voters by applying the heuristic-systematic model of persuasion. The HSM of persuasion proposes that an individual takes the information that is most accessible and available and then applies that information before making a decision (Forehand, …
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