televised political satire: the new media - OAKTrust Home
... Could the growing viewership that supports late night televised political satire programming be significant enough to push a barely losing liberal candidate over the edge into victory, given that the majority of these shows are not only liberal leaning, but filter the information they present throug ...
... Could the growing viewership that supports late night televised political satire programming be significant enough to push a barely losing liberal candidate over the edge into victory, given that the majority of these shows are not only liberal leaning, but filter the information they present throug ...
Predicting User`s Political Party using Ideological Stances
... Ideological Stances. For example, a user who supports abortion and is against gun rights is more likely a Democrat. His/her other stances on issues like gay marriage, health care, flat tax, death penalty, etc. can aid in detecting his party affiliation with high accuracy. In this paper, we focus on ...
... Ideological Stances. For example, a user who supports abortion and is against gun rights is more likely a Democrat. His/her other stances on issues like gay marriage, health care, flat tax, death penalty, etc. can aid in detecting his party affiliation with high accuracy. In this paper, we focus on ...
Americans Roundly Reject Tailored Political Advertising
... learn a candidate they support carries out one or another real-life example of tailored political advertising, it will decrease their likelihood of voting for the candidate. These are two findings from the first nationally representative telephone (wireline and cell phone) survey to explore American ...
... learn a candidate they support carries out one or another real-life example of tailored political advertising, it will decrease their likelihood of voting for the candidate. These are two findings from the first nationally representative telephone (wireline and cell phone) survey to explore American ...
Kenneth Minogue: Politics - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... writes the script? In other words: “Who’s in charge here?” Politics gives a voice to all individuals, groups, and interests within a civil society. But a civil society is a rare achievement. More prevalent in history has been despotism, which vests that authority in the hands of a single master, who ...
... writes the script? In other words: “Who’s in charge here?” Politics gives a voice to all individuals, groups, and interests within a civil society. But a civil society is a rare achievement. More prevalent in history has been despotism, which vests that authority in the hands of a single master, who ...
Introduction - GeocitiesSites.com
... A new classification of political systems presented here is an answer for one question that obsessed me since 1986 (as I recall): “Why a small city-state of Rome for a few hundred years won almost every war step-by-step building an empire. (What was the reason for such aberration of the statistics?) ...
... A new classification of political systems presented here is an answer for one question that obsessed me since 1986 (as I recall): “Why a small city-state of Rome for a few hundred years won almost every war step-by-step building an empire. (What was the reason for such aberration of the statistics?) ...
Environmental Protection and Free Trade: Direct and Indirect Competition for Political Influence by
... environmental movement is that environmental groups can provide block votes, given the large membership of these organizations. However, according to Olson (1965), the large membership of an interest group is not necessarily an advantage, and it is still uncertain whether environmental groups are ab ...
... environmental movement is that environmental groups can provide block votes, given the large membership of these organizations. However, according to Olson (1965), the large membership of an interest group is not necessarily an advantage, and it is still uncertain whether environmental groups are ab ...
Empowering the Marginalized Voter: Clientelism in Heterogeneous
... Merton’s analysis represents a body of literature, typically conducted through case studies, that positions clientelism as a mitigating force during political transitions. This research illustrates how nascent democracies, characterized by social disorganization and highly fragmented electorates, le ...
... Merton’s analysis represents a body of literature, typically conducted through case studies, that positions clientelism as a mitigating force during political transitions. This research illustrates how nascent democracies, characterized by social disorganization and highly fragmented electorates, le ...
Thai Politics: - Lynne Rienner Publishers
... later backed him generally did not attempt any comprehensive redistribution of incomes.3 They made no breakthroughs in equalizing educational opportunities, although the first Thaksin government gave the goal some attention. Redistributive taxation figured more prominently in the policy agenda of th ...
... later backed him generally did not attempt any comprehensive redistribution of incomes.3 They made no breakthroughs in equalizing educational opportunities, although the first Thaksin government gave the goal some attention. Redistributive taxation figured more prominently in the policy agenda of th ...
Political Neuroscience: The Beginning of a
... Smith, & Alford, in press). As Taber and Young (2013) pointed out, the field is experiencing “an exciting turning point” in which researchers are “looking inside the black box already” (p. 549). The use of neuroscientific methods to examine questions of political psychology brings with it clear adva ...
... Smith, & Alford, in press). As Taber and Young (2013) pointed out, the field is experiencing “an exciting turning point” in which researchers are “looking inside the black box already” (p. 549). The use of neuroscientific methods to examine questions of political psychology brings with it clear adva ...
Paper presented at the ESA 8th Conference,
... amount of research that shows how class can be seen as only one element (and typically an element of declining importance) in these processes. I do not wish to argue with this. Pakulski and Waters do point toward important theoretical problems within the traditional Marxist conception of class, and ...
... amount of research that shows how class can be seen as only one element (and typically an element of declining importance) in these processes. I do not wish to argue with this. Pakulski and Waters do point toward important theoretical problems within the traditional Marxist conception of class, and ...
Political Campaign Advertising Dynamics
... Brady 1993). We do not formalize them here, but instead provide the simple intuition. In addition, while we do specify a relation between campaign strategists and voters, we do not use an explicit game in this model. A game theoretic set up, however, is a possibility since adaptive learning models a ...
... Brady 1993). We do not formalize them here, but instead provide the simple intuition. In addition, while we do specify a relation between campaign strategists and voters, we do not use an explicit game in this model. A game theoretic set up, however, is a possibility since adaptive learning models a ...
US History AP Scope and Sequence-ELOs
... United States in this period of American History. 5. Analyze critical events, individuals, organizations, and processes in terms of their social, economic, cultural, political, and/or diplomatic impact on US History ...
... United States in this period of American History. 5. Analyze critical events, individuals, organizations, and processes in terms of their social, economic, cultural, political, and/or diplomatic impact on US History ...
The Effects of Youth and Adolescent Involvement on Value Patterns
... So, no wonder some of the research does not find any significant effects, if membership can only under certain conditions lead to the strengthening of existing values. In fact, the logic of the argument implies that value patterns are formed much before the actual participation experience, whereas t ...
... So, no wonder some of the research does not find any significant effects, if membership can only under certain conditions lead to the strengthening of existing values. In fact, the logic of the argument implies that value patterns are formed much before the actual participation experience, whereas t ...
From Passion to Politics: What Moves People to Take Action?
... could happen to our own community. Therefore, “I think it is important to convince the media of relentlessly and vividly reporting the realities of Darfur, that is, treating mass murder as important news.” The disparity between the extent of media coverage of Martha Stewart’s jail time and the genoc ...
... could happen to our own community. Therefore, “I think it is important to convince the media of relentlessly and vividly reporting the realities of Darfur, that is, treating mass murder as important news.” The disparity between the extent of media coverage of Martha Stewart’s jail time and the genoc ...
The Effects of Youth Involvement and
... So, no wonder some of the research does not find any significant effects, if membership can only under certain conditions lead to the strengthening of existing values. In fact, the logic of the argument implies that value patterns are formed much before the actual participation experience, whereas t ...
... So, no wonder some of the research does not find any significant effects, if membership can only under certain conditions lead to the strengthening of existing values. In fact, the logic of the argument implies that value patterns are formed much before the actual participation experience, whereas t ...
OPINION ON THE PROHIBITION OF FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
... them from states bordering on the Federal Republic of Germany and in which members of their ethnic community live, or they are donations of no more than 1,000 euros from an alien” (The Law on Political Parties (Party Law) (2002), Article 25), and partly – in the UK (except Northern Ireland)). Sweden ...
... them from states bordering on the Federal Republic of Germany and in which members of their ethnic community live, or they are donations of no more than 1,000 euros from an alien” (The Law on Political Parties (Party Law) (2002), Article 25), and partly – in the UK (except Northern Ireland)). Sweden ...
Myth of the Level Playing Field - University of Missouri School of
... tional barriers to creative measures that would, in theory, increase the diversity of viewpoints represented in political debate while privileging no viewpoint over any other, resulting in a better-informed citizenry and, therefore, better decisionmaking, better government, and better policy. Chief ...
... tional barriers to creative measures that would, in theory, increase the diversity of viewpoints represented in political debate while privileging no viewpoint over any other, resulting in a better-informed citizenry and, therefore, better decisionmaking, better government, and better policy. Chief ...
- Moody College of Communication
... on the U.S. healthcare system. The likelihood of this sort of inadvertent exposure to political difference in an otherwise apolitical space receives empirical support in both ‘‘face-to-face’’ and online contexts. In the face-to-face case, research suggests that the workplace is particularly likely t ...
... on the U.S. healthcare system. The likelihood of this sort of inadvertent exposure to political difference in an otherwise apolitical space receives empirical support in both ‘‘face-to-face’’ and online contexts. In the face-to-face case, research suggests that the workplace is particularly likely t ...
Politics and HIV/AIDS: An Overview
... aspects of HIV/AIDS, the papers from these research studies do not go into detail about the economic impacts of the epidemic. There is a growing body of evidence about the economic impacts—from household to national levels. But there is far less analysis about how political decisions determine respo ...
... aspects of HIV/AIDS, the papers from these research studies do not go into detail about the economic impacts of the epidemic. There is a growing body of evidence about the economic impacts—from household to national levels. But there is far less analysis about how political decisions determine respo ...
Paper-1, COMPARATIVE POLITICS
... race, the military strategy, cybernetics and software development, all these have created a lot of problems which go beyond the ability of any individual or any group of private individuals to solve them. These problems can be effectively tackled only by the government which has a claim to be based ...
... race, the military strategy, cybernetics and software development, all these have created a lot of problems which go beyond the ability of any individual or any group of private individuals to solve them. These problems can be effectively tackled only by the government which has a claim to be based ...
How Frequent is Organizational Political Behavior?
... (1994) included items such as “I have learned how things really work on the inside of this organization” and “I know who the most influential people are in my organization” (Ferris et al., 2002 p221). The results of the Chao et al study (1994) showed a positive correlation between politics and job s ...
... (1994) included items such as “I have learned how things really work on the inside of this organization” and “I know who the most influential people are in my organization” (Ferris et al., 2002 p221). The results of the Chao et al study (1994) showed a positive correlation between politics and job s ...
collapse or order? questioning state collapse in africa
... concerns of an entirely different order. First, state failure is believed to have evolved from a regional phenomenon to one reaching almost global proportions1. In recent analysis, the weak state capacities of countries like Sudan or Afghanistan are identified with the emergence of non-state actors ...
... concerns of an entirely different order. First, state failure is believed to have evolved from a regional phenomenon to one reaching almost global proportions1. In recent analysis, the weak state capacities of countries like Sudan or Afghanistan are identified with the emergence of non-state actors ...
PAR template 11-22 - FSU Local Governance Research Lab.
... of insulating local decisions from external political pressures (Lineberry and Fowler 1967; Lyons 1978). By insulating development processes, council-manager governments provide local officials an opportunity to respond to underlying economic problems and to match development policies to specific ne ...
... of insulating local decisions from external political pressures (Lineberry and Fowler 1967; Lyons 1978). By insulating development processes, council-manager governments provide local officials an opportunity to respond to underlying economic problems and to match development policies to specific ne ...
Phil 115 Political Philosophy
... - Dworkin’s argument against the hypothetical contract. This form of contract would be otiose if it were to legitimate obedience of the governed to government. Here we returned to the ‘practical reality’ that a hypothetical contract might nevertheless have. (We also mentioned a different challenge: ...
... - Dworkin’s argument against the hypothetical contract. This form of contract would be otiose if it were to legitimate obedience of the governed to government. Here we returned to the ‘practical reality’ that a hypothetical contract might nevertheless have. (We also mentioned a different challenge: ...
Partisans without constraint: Political polarization and trends in American public opinion ∗
... variation of responses on an individual issue in the population, where more variation corresponds to more people on the extremes and fewer in the middle), while aspects concerning with the coherence—“tightness”—of people’s opinions were generally overlooked. In contrast, in this paper we focus on th ...
... variation of responses on an individual issue in the population, where more variation corresponds to more people on the extremes and fewer in the middle), while aspects concerning with the coherence—“tightness”—of people’s opinions were generally overlooked. In contrast, in this paper we focus on th ...