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Burden, Barry C. "Candidates' positions in congressional elections /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487951214940721.

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Brown, Adam Robert. "Strategic politicians in gubernatorial elections." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3311418.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed Aug. 1, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-137).

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Murakami, Go. "Candidates' ethnic backgrounds and voter choice in elections." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/50203.

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Do candidates' ethnic backgrounds matter in elections? More precisely, do they change voters' perceptions about the candidates, and ultimately change their vote choice? If so, in what way and how much? And perhaps more importantly, why? This doctoral thesis attempts to answer these questions using experimental and observational election surveys in Japan and Canada. In the experiments, I aim to estimate causal effects of candidates' ethnic minority status on vote choice, test three relevant theories by examining three moderated effects, and propose two causal mechanisms. With a Canadian Federal

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Pensute, Chanintorn. "Candidates, vote-canvassers, and voters in Thai Provincial Administrative Organisation elections." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2015. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/9299/.

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This thesis focuses on the study of the provincial elections in Thailand in which direct elections of the head of Provincial Administrative Organisations (PAO) have emerged since 2004. This thesis uses participant observation and in-depth interviews to explore the practices of political campaigning, the candidate selection process, the work of vote canvassers during the election cycle, money politics and provincial voters’ behaviour during the PAO head elections in the Dao and Noraburi provinces during the 2012 and 2013 elections. The aim of this thesis is to understand the changing trends of

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Lacerda, Fábio. "Pentecostalismo, eleições e representação política no Brasil contemporâneo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8131/tde-02062017-103551/.

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Esta tese investiga a recente mobilização política dos evangélicos no Brasil. Seu objetivo é analisar certas suposições encontradas na literatura sobre o crescimento evangélico (sobretudo pentecostal) e seu impacto político na América Latina e, em particular, no Brasil. Essas suposições dizem respeito à relação estabelecida entre político evangélico e eleitor; ao crescimento da presença evangélica nos legislativos brasileiros; à «força» eleitoral dos candidatos evangélicos e das igrejas pentecostais; e ao apoio de eleitores evangélicos a candidatos que sinalizam a mesma religião. Para realizar

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Johnson, Joel W. "Electoral systems and campaign finance in legislative elections." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2009. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3371953.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.<br>Title from first page of PDF file (viewed October 13, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Aldao, Sharlin. "Women candidates and television advertising : an examination of the 2006 mid-term elections /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131464733.pdf.

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Campbell, Kristin Lynn. "Struggling to set the campaign agenda: candidates, the media, and interest groups in elections." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1547.

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Democracy is best described as a struggle over competing ideals and values. One of the most important places where this struggle takes place is in the electoral arena. My dissertation examines the struggle between candidates and their respective messages in this arena. Focusing on fourteen Senate races from 1998 and 2000, I examine, in depth, how the struggle over competing ideals takes place (or in some cases, does not take place) and whether some candidates are more successful than others at navigating their message through the political environment to voters. This study examines the impact

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Miller, Paige Thomason. "Live From New York and Straight to Washington: an Explorative Study of Internet Audience Perceptions of the Portrayals and Appearances of Presidential Candidates on Saturday Night Live." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115121/.

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This thesis examines if and how the Internet viewers of Saturday Night Live skits were influenced by the video skits. the viewers’ online comments were read, categorized and analyzed for content to explore and discuss how the viewers “read” the text of the online video skits. Each video in which candidates John McCain, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama appeared is summarized and analyzed through viewers’ comments. a sample of skits including actors’ portrayals of McCain, Palin, Clinton, Obama and Joe Biden is also summarized and analyzed to find and discuss how the viewers’ percep

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Neto, Antonio Sabino da Silva. "A disputa pelo trofÃu da seguranÃa pÃblica: uma anÃlise sobre os policiais militares nas eleiÃÃes de 2014 no CearÃ." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2016. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=17161.

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nÃo hÃ<br>O tema de pesquisa desse trabalho estÃ situado na anÃlise da construÃÃo de lideranÃas policiais militares no espaÃo da polÃtica cearense. Especificamente, pretendo compreender como no ano de 2014, policiais militares utilizaram de suas experiÃncias na polÃcia para consolidar um capital polÃtico capaz de conseguir a adesÃo do voto a um cargo legislativo no CearÃ. Na busca de lanÃar luzes sobre este perÃodo, Ã possÃvel observar que no "tempo da polÃtica", momento em que a coerÃÃo social Ã eminentemente emblemÃtica para que os eleitores se manifestem a partir da adesÃo por meio do voto

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Feldner, Melissa L. "An examination of how gender stereotypes affect voters' perceptions of state Supreme Court candidates." Ohio : Ohio University, 2006. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1131735219.

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MacColl, Megan Gwynne. "Candidates, Campaigns, and Political Tides: Electoral Success in Colorado's 4th District." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/450.

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The race between Republican Cory Gardner and Democratic incumbent Betsy Markey for Colorado's 4th Congressional District was a partisan fight for political momentum. In the 2010 campaign cycle, Republicans looked to retake the historically Republican 4th District as part of a national strategy to win back the U.S. House, while Democrats tried desperately to hold on to both. Cory Gardner was only one of fifty-four Republican challengers to defeat a Democratic incumbent in 2010, but the Gardner-Markey race is particularly interesting as a case study of voter motivation and the mediating forces,

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Crawford, Jordan. "The ideological gap behavioral trends of the politically active, 1976-2004 /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5669.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 11, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.

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Gallo, Carlo. "Russian duma elections in the territorial districts : explaining patterns of proliferation of independent candidates, 1993-1999." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2005. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1763/.

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Russian political parties remained weak and under-institutionalised in the 1990s, with profound implications for the viability of the country's democratic project. This research is concerned with explaining one glaring sign of party under-development - the success of independent candidates in federal parliamentary elections. Its originality rests on focusing on the uneven geographic concentration of independents' electoral success, given that existing accounts have confined themselves to the national, average picture. A second point of originality is the choice of multilevel modelling as the t

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Cho, Sungdai. "Third party candidates and sophisticated voters : spatial competition and strategic voting in multicandiate American presidential elections /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9962511.

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Powell, Thomas James. "The effect of the urban/rural divide on attitudes toward U.S. presidential candidates." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20572.

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This research seeks to understand the urban/rural political divide in the United States. The main focus is the extent this divide is manifested in attitudes toward presidential candidates. Are rural Americans, for example, more likely to vote for a ‘rural’ candidate over an ‘urban’ candidate? The main hypothesis was that there would be a positive relationship between voters’ geography and their attitudes toward candidates who had a similar geographic background. The urban/rural divide in the U.S. has a long history and is particularly expressed in politics. More recently, this divide has been

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Swindle, Stephen. "The electoral and structural determinants of party versus candidate voting /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9812497.

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Kelley, James Brendan. "REPUTATIONAL EFFECTS IN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: MEASURING THE IMPACT OF REPEAT CANDIDACY AND INTEREST GROUP ENDORSEMENTS." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/602577.

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Political Science<br>Ph.D.<br>This dissertation consists of three projects related to reputational effects in legislative elections. Building on the candidate emergence, repeat candidates and congressional donor literatures, these articles use novel datasets to further our understanding of repeat candidacy and the impact of interest group endorsements on candidate contributions. The first project examines the conditions under which losing state legislative candidates will appear on the successive general election ballot. Broadly speaking, I find a good deal of support for the notion that candi

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Riley, Justin A. "Rethinking Candidate Character Trait Evaluations: Polynomial Curvature Modeling and Variation Over Time." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1619032105711706.

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Stokes, Atiya Kai. "The quest for the multiracial mandate African American candidates, white voters, and campaign strategies in state legislative elections /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1365.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.<br>Thesis research directed by: Government and Politics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.

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Lazarus, Jeffrey. "Strategic entry in US House elections : assessing the causes and effects of interaction among incumbents and challengers /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3144331.

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Yang, Karen J. "Media coverage of establishment and non-establishment candidates in Argentina's 2003 presidential election." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1142292637.

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M, Sjöberg Fredrik. "Competitive Elections in Authoritarian States : Weak States, Strong Elites, and Fractional Societies in Central Asia and Beyond." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-156150.

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Why do some authoritarian states have competitive elections? This study shows that whenever there is a balance of power between candidates, competitiveness will ensue. Electoral fraud is often widespread in autocratic states, but if no single candidate or party is in a position to monopolize electoral support the result will be competitive. The contribution here is to analyze the relative strength of all the actors involved in a parliamentary election and to show that electoral returns reflect the district level balance of power, even in autocracies. Three main sources of candidate-level elect

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Taylor, Justin B. "When do voters really have a choice? The effects of the electoral environment on the emergence of primary competition in the U.S. Congress." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1116802288.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005.<br>Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xiii, 177 p.; also includes graphics Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-177). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Turner, Michael Thomas Eugeniusz. "Incumbency effects in English Local Elections 1974-2010 : assessing the advantage of electoral defence." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/2994.

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The study of electoral defence and its stated advantages are an integral part of American political science. Post-war, much academic literature has emerged in an attempt to identify and explain rising re-election rates of congressional incumbents and the political consequences of such a phenomenon (Mayhew 1974; Fiorina 1977; Cain, Ferejohn & Fiorina 1987; Gelman & King 1990; King 1991). Conversely, the study of political incumbency in Britain can be attributed to a handful of scholars who tend to consider the repercussions at parliamentary level (Williams 1967, King 1981, Cain, Ferejoh

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SÁNCHEZ, FRANCISCO. "Political communication and virality in the US presidential campaign : A CDA analysis of the 2016 US presidential candidates’ discourses and performances in late night shows." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-36460.

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The current study set out to shed light on the performances that 2016 US presidential candidates used during their interventions on the late-night comedy shows. Following the methodologies ofCritical Discourse Analysis, the aim of the thesis was to uncover and, therefore, analyze, the type of discourses that candidates used in the shows and how they combined them. There was establisheda special focus on the rhetorical styles used by each candidate, as well as the emotional content ofthe discourses, unexpected situations and comedy performances, with the aim to find the elements which lead to v

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Busher, Amy Beth. "Framing Hillary Clinton a content analysis of the New York Times news coverage of the 2000 New York senate election /." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04282006-110950/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Cynthia Hoffner, committee chair; Mary Stuckey, Mchael Bruner, committee members. Electronic text (65 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 26, 2007; title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-59).

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Bergé, Jean-Henri. "Du candidat à l'élu, analyse transversale des contraintes, directes et indirectes, qui rythment une campagne électorale." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM1035.

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Quels sont les éléments qui ont une influence sur le vote ?En tentant de répondre à cette question fondamentale en démocratie, les travaux de recherche ont mis au jour les différents paramètres à prendre en compte lors d'une campagne électorale. Aussi, quand un candidat ne propose que des avantages individuels pour les électeurs, le débat ne s'élève pas au-dessus des satisfactions personnelles de chaque électeur. Promesses, distribution de prébendes et autorisations dérogatoires au droit commun ne constituent alors qu'un catalogue de propositions diverses. Les systèmes de valeurs, les principe

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Simões, Catarina Isabel Feitor. "Funcionalidades da regulação da cobertura jornalística em período eleitoral em Portugal: estudo comparativo das eleições legislativas de 2011 e 2015." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18473.

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Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciência Política<br>O presente estudo trata das funcionalidades da regulação da cobertura jornalística em período eleitoral em Portugal, designadamente, as eleições legislativas de 2011 e 2015. Responde-se à questão de partida: como é que o novo regime jurídico, a Lei n.º 72-A/2015, que regula a cobertura jornalística em período eleitoral, se adequa ao contexto nacional dos órgãos de comunicação social? Durante 40 anos vigorou legislação criada em 1975, de cariz préconstitucional, que regulou a cobertura jornalística em período eleitoral. Trata-se de matéria sensível

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Jameson, Marie. "Voting Paradoxes Caused by Dropping Candidates in an Election." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2007. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmc_theses/198.

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Voting theory is plagued by seemingly contradictory results, called voting paradoxes. For example, different methods of tallying votes can result in different election results; these voting paradoxes give contradictory answers to the question of what the voting population “really” wants. This paper studies voting paradoxes brought about by considering the effect of dropping one or more candidates in an election after the voting data has already been collected. Dropping a candidate may change the election results for the remaining candidates. This paper adopts an algebraic framework to approach

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Luntz, F. I. "Candidates, consultants and modern campaign technology." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234280.

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Marty, Thomas. "Mobilisations politiques et expertise électorale : la question de la « représentation proportionnelle ». Histoire sociale de la réforme électorale sous la Troisième République." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100148/document.

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Au début du vingtième siècle, après deux décennies sans réforme électorale, le mode de scrutin devient un sujet de controverse. Cette étude se propose d’examiner les conditions du choix de la représentation proportionnelle par les membres de la Chambre des députés française ainsi que par d’autres militants. Au-delà de la rééligibilité législative, c’est à travers le changement du mode de scrutin (introduction du scrutin de liste et de la représentation proportionnelle) que le problème de la réélection apparaît sous la Troisième République. Les professeurs de droit constitutionnel, tant à Paris

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Keir, Warren Neill. "Voter behaviour and constitutional change in Australia since 1967." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/31139/1/Warren_Keir_Thesis.pdf.

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Australian Constitutional referendums have been part of the Australian political system since federation. Up to the year 1999 (the time of the last referendum in Australia), constitutional change in Australia does not have a good history of acceptance. Since 1901, there have been 44 proposed constitutional changes with eight gaining the required acceptance according to section 128 of the Australian Constitution. In the modern era since 1967, there have been 20 proposals over seven referendum votes for a total of four changes. Over this same period, there have been 13 federal general elections

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Kelbel, Camille. "Itineraries of Spoiled Children: An Analysis of Candidate Selection Processes for European Elections." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/276946.

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This PhD dissertation analyses the processes used by political parties to select candidates for the European elections, making the unique institutional setting and electoral dynamics of the European Parliament a “litmus test” for party organisations. By applying an institutional design theory to the ways parties nominate their candidates for the EP, I can test a wide range of pre-existing postulates about parties’ behaviours, and can do so across many different countries (thus considering various electoral settings and socio-political arenas) while also accounting for the multi-level setting i

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Luhiste, Maarja. "Candidate gender and electoral success in party list proportional representation (PR List) systems." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4371.

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This thesis studies women politicians’ journey along the path from candidates to elected representatives in party list proportional representation (PR list) systems. While past literature provides sufficient evidence that more women are elected in proportional electoral systems than in majority / plurality systems, there is limited research explaining the differences in women’s representation across varying types of PR list systems. This thesis aims to fill that gap, by focusing primarily on the election of women across preferential (open and ordered list systems) and non-preferential (closed

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Dunn, Scott Wilson. "Candidate and Media Agenda Setting in the 2005 Virginia Gubernatorial Election." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31807.

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This study content analyzed candidate press releases and newspaper articles from the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial election in order to determine which issues, strategies, and audiences were most salient on candidate and media agendas during the campaign. Monthly cross-lagged correlations were used to measure agenda setting effects between the two major party candidates, among the four newspapers, and between candidates and newspapers. These correlations showed that the candidates maintained consistent issue agendas throughout the campaign but shifted their strategy and audience agendas fr

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Sylvester, Shannon Palor, and Shannon Palor Sylvester. "Candidate Tweet Usage by Journalists in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625187.

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This paper sets out to determine the impact that Twitter has in political journalistic reporting of television broadcasts. It specifically focuses on the 2016 U.S. presidential election from Labor Day (September 4, 2016) to Election Day (November 8, 2016). Transcripts from the following major news agencies were pulled to extract Twitter mentions within the story: CBS, CNN, FOX, MSNBC, and NBC. Pulling from 900 transcripts, about 40% (350 transcripts) of the transcripts used tweets from candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as evidence in their stories. Of the transcripts that refer

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Ingmire, Brock. "Gubernatorial candidates in polarizing times: examining gubernatorial discourse through political interviews." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19224.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of Communications Studies<br>Soo-Hye Han<br>The rise of partisan political news over the past two decades has influenced how political candidates discursively construct their image. While there is an extensive literature devote to presidential discourse, little is known about what gubernatorial discourse looks like and how they construct their image. This study examines how gubernatorial candidates discursively construct their image in a hyperpolarized electoral environment. An extensive content analysis of gubernatorial political interviews (n = 94), and specifica

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Pérez-Mares, Marco Alejandro. "On the Economic Effects of Policy Responsiveness: The Role of Candidate Selection for General Elections." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/34.

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Policy responsiveness to the demands of the whole is important because it is a determinant of growth and development: Institutions that make governments more inclusive favor economic progress and factors that make governments more exclusive inhibit prosperity. Growth-enhancing policies likely to please the citizenry include policies that ensure the prevalence of the rule of law, policies that protect property and intellectual rights, and policies that foster competition, access and the perfection of markets. In contrast, growth-retarding policies likely to initiate from the representation effo

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Llaudet, Elena. "Electoral Institutions, Party Strategies, Candidate Attributes, and the Incumbency Advantage." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11579.

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In developed democracies, incumbents are consistently found to have an electoral advantage over their challengers. The normative implications of this phenomenon depend on its sources. Despite a large existing literature, there is little consensus on what the sources are. In this three-paper dissertation, I find that both electoral institutions and the parties behind the incumbents appear to have a larger role than the literature has given them credit for, and that in the U.S. context, between 30 and 40 percent of the incumbents' advantage is driven by their "scaring off" serious opposition.<br

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Cottrill, James B. "A product of the environment: environmental constraint, candidate behavior and the speed of democracy." Texas A&M University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/1549.

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Elections are the engine that drives democracy. The central question of this dissertation relates to the speed of that engine: How long does it take for elections to reflect changing preferences in the electorate? The findings presented in this dissertation suggest that electoral change is the result of a gradual process of natural selection in which the political environment, rather than district service activity, is the key variable. Comparing elections data across different types of district environment, I find evidence that the environment affects levels of competition and electoral outcom

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Hermawan, Ary. "Framing the 2014 Indonesian Presidential Candidates in Newspapers and on Twitter." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613420.

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The 2014 Indonesian presidential election was the first election in the world's largest Muslim democracy where social media played an important role. Social media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter, became a public forum where Indonesians debated about and framed the presidential candidates - Prabowo Subianto and Joko Widodo - in what was said to be the closest and most polarizing election in the nation's history. A content analysis of two partisan newspapers, two independent newspapers, and tweets showed that both legacy media and social media focused on the personality frame when describi

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Sutton, Matthew Luke. "A candidate's use of aggressive communication and the electorates' response predicting presidential election outcomes /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2005. https://eidr.wvu.edu/etd/documentdata.eTD?documentid=4053.

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Endres, Kyle Leon. "Self-financed candidates and how voters perceive them." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2012-05-5807.

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The increasing number of candidates relying on their personal wealth and corporate experience in their bids for elected office raises the question: how do voters perceive these non-traditional candidates and their willingness to spend their personal money in order to win elected office? Using both an experimental design and data from the 2009-2010 election cycles, I test for the effects of self-financing one’s political campaign on voter support for the candidates and their vote share in the general election, respectively. I find that partisans’ evaluations of candidates decrease when alerted

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Brox, Brian Joseph Shaw Daron R. "Candidates, parties, and campaign effects in congressional elections, 1992-2002." 2005. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/1518/broxb44134.pdf.

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Brox, Brian Joseph. "Candidates, parties, and campaign effects in congressional elections, 1992-2002." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/1518.

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Sayers, Anthony M. (Anthony Michael). "Riding style, party ethos : nominations, candidates and local campaigns in Canadian federal elections." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7499.

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Despite having the appearance of a single event, federal elections in Canada concatenate nearly 300 individual constituency contests. Yet little is known of how constituency campaign teams operate, or how they interact with each other. In order to provide a better understanding of local campaigns, this thesis describes and explains the nature of local riding associations, the candidates they select, and the environment in which they operate. In so doing, it traces the impact of both riding and partisan forces on the character of constituency politics, and on Canadian politics more genera

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"Implicitly Biased: Voter Perception of Latina Political Candidates." Doctoral diss., 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.49267.

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abstract: The 2016 election brought to light a political climate change in the United States and showed that questions scholars and pundits alike thought were answered perhaps had not been completely addressed. For some, the main question left unanswered was what would it take for a woman to become President of the United States? For others, the question of fear politics and the effects of social media were raised. Perhaps, the most intriguing was exactly who has influence over US elections? While these, and other, questions were asked in the context of the presidential election, they are also

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King, Aaron. "Unfolding Ambition: Strategic Candidacy Decisions in Senate Primary Elections." Diss., 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/7147.

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<p>Theories of ambition have taught us that higher offices are valuable commodities to certain politicians, and under the right circumstances, the benefits of running for an office outweigh the associated risks. Yet some ambitious politicians emerge as candidates while others do not. In this dissertation, I present a Theory of Strategic Candidacy Decisions to explain how primary elections unfold. With new comprehensive data on the timing of candidacy decisions, I test several hypotheses regarding the determinants of electoral and fundraising success, the timing of strategic candidacy decisi

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Vaishnav, Milan. "The Merits of Money and "Muscle": Essays on Criminality, Elections and Democracy in India." Thesis, 2012. https://doi.org/10.7916/D832030W.

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This dissertation seeks to understand how democratic elections can coexist with a significant number of politicians implicated in criminal wrongdoing. Specifically, it seeks answers to three questions. Why do parties nominate candidates with criminal backgrounds? Why do voters vote for them? And what does their proliferation mean for democratic accountability? To address these questions, I draw on a wide body of quantitative and qualitative evidence from India, the world's largest democracy. I argue that parties are attracted to criminal politicians because they have access to financial res

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