Local Institutions and the Politics of Urban Growth
... space is limited. When population density is low and land is abundant, there is less incentive to protect scarce environmental resources. Thus, we expect measures of population pressure and urbanization to be positively related to pro-environment amendments, and the availability of open space to be ...
... space is limited. When population density is low and land is abundant, there is less incentive to protect scarce environmental resources. Thus, we expect measures of population pressure and urbanization to be positively related to pro-environment amendments, and the availability of open space to be ...
Voice of the Diaspora: An Analysis of Migrant Voting Behavior Orla Doyle
... Poland was generally more successful than the Czech Republic in persuading its citizens abroad to vote, with voters’ abroad accounting for 0.08% of the electorate in the Czech Republic and 0.20% in Poland. While this may simply reflect the fact that Poles are more inclined to leave their country9, i ...
... Poland was generally more successful than the Czech Republic in persuading its citizens abroad to vote, with voters’ abroad accounting for 0.08% of the electorate in the Czech Republic and 0.20% in Poland. While this may simply reflect the fact that Poles are more inclined to leave their country9, i ...
Is Public Opinion Stable? Resolving the Micro
... finding here is that opinions change and any effects (e.g., from a certain type of question at one point in time) quickly decay (e.g., Chong and Druckman 2010). For example, when individuals receive the terrorism version of the Patriot Act question, they likely become more supportive of the Act. Ye ...
... finding here is that opinions change and any effects (e.g., from a certain type of question at one point in time) quickly decay (e.g., Chong and Druckman 2010). For example, when individuals receive the terrorism version of the Patriot Act question, they likely become more supportive of the Act. Ye ...
Identifying patterns of social and political participation
... 1. Even the most stable democracies do not guarantee the ability to solve all issues using the established institutions for (conventional) political participation. 2. The concept of participation should thus not be reduced only to what takes place in the established (formal) institutions and other f ...
... 1. Even the most stable democracies do not guarantee the ability to solve all issues using the established institutions for (conventional) political participation. 2. The concept of participation should thus not be reduced only to what takes place in the established (formal) institutions and other f ...
POLI 209- Analyzing Public Opinion
... d) What is clear is that college appears to have an effect on attitudes. Young people with a college education have more liberal attitudes than those of the same age without a college education ...
... d) What is clear is that college appears to have an effect on attitudes. Young people with a college education have more liberal attitudes than those of the same age without a college education ...
Intolerance and Political Repression in the United States: A Half
... level (either over time or cross-nationally) has investigated the subtheory of pluralistic intolerance. In their microlevel research on South Africa, Gibson and Gouws (2003) discovered that intolerance can be both focused and pluralistic, in the sense that many groups, of various ideological affinit ...
... level (either over time or cross-nationally) has investigated the subtheory of pluralistic intolerance. In their microlevel research on South Africa, Gibson and Gouws (2003) discovered that intolerance can be both focused and pluralistic, in the sense that many groups, of various ideological affinit ...
From Passion to Politics: What Moves People to Take Action?
... From Passion to Politics: What Moves People to Take Action? mines (ICBL) and still is active in this organization. Her interests have since expanded, and she has had the chance to work with the UN among many other international organizations. International organizer, activist, teacher and writer, W ...
... From Passion to Politics: What Moves People to Take Action? mines (ICBL) and still is active in this organization. Her interests have since expanded, and she has had the chance to work with the UN among many other international organizations. International organizer, activist, teacher and writer, W ...
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... eyes of some observers (see, for example, Hedges, 2012)—can be understood as an attempt to challenge the neoliberal status quo by stirring up imagination and opening discursive spaces for the most radical of alternative visions of globalization. In what follows, I explicate my point in more detail. ...
... eyes of some observers (see, for example, Hedges, 2012)—can be understood as an attempt to challenge the neoliberal status quo by stirring up imagination and opening discursive spaces for the most radical of alternative visions of globalization. In what follows, I explicate my point in more detail. ...
International Politics
... • HST 208: The Making of the Modern Middle East • HST 239: Empire-building in Eurasia since 1750 • HST 249: Early Modern Europe 1600-1815 • HST 250: Europe in the 19th Century • HST 257: East Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries • HST 257: History of Central Africa • HST 261/LAS 261: National Latin ...
... • HST 208: The Making of the Modern Middle East • HST 239: Empire-building in Eurasia since 1750 • HST 249: Early Modern Europe 1600-1815 • HST 250: Europe in the 19th Century • HST 257: East Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries • HST 257: History of Central Africa • HST 261/LAS 261: National Latin ...
here - Dissent Magazine
... Howard | Reading Arendt’s On Revolution Robespierre’s version, there could be no virtue without terror, but also no terror without virtue – a dilemma that could not be overcome by the rhetorical institution of the Fête de l’Être suprême. At first glance, our contemporary situation could not be more ...
... Howard | Reading Arendt’s On Revolution Robespierre’s version, there could be no virtue without terror, but also no terror without virtue – a dilemma that could not be overcome by the rhetorical institution of the Fête de l’Être suprême. At first glance, our contemporary situation could not be more ...
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... political messages are conveyed among citizens. As a consequence of the campaign, citizens are more likely to perceive their associates’ preferences accurately. They are more confident in their assessments of associates’ preferences. And their judgments regarding the preferences of others are more a ...
... political messages are conveyed among citizens. As a consequence of the campaign, citizens are more likely to perceive their associates’ preferences accurately. They are more confident in their assessments of associates’ preferences. And their judgments regarding the preferences of others are more a ...
Curriculum Vitae - UNC School of Media and Journalism
... Digital Politics. (pp. 118-135). New York, NY: Edgar Elgar. Kreiss, D. and Welch, C.* (2015). Strategic Communication in a Networked Age. In V. A. Farrar-Myers and J. S. Vaughn (Eds.), Controlling The Message?: New Media in American Political Campaigns. (pp. 13-31). New York: New York University Pre ...
... Digital Politics. (pp. 118-135). New York, NY: Edgar Elgar. Kreiss, D. and Welch, C.* (2015). Strategic Communication in a Networked Age. In V. A. Farrar-Myers and J. S. Vaughn (Eds.), Controlling The Message?: New Media in American Political Campaigns. (pp. 13-31). New York: New York University Pre ...
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... come from unbiased, independent thinking. They instead claim that human beliefs often result from selective processing of information, and do not result from rational use of evidence (Haidt, 2013). People believe what they wish to believe even when they encounter opposing evidence (Jost et al., 2008 ...
... come from unbiased, independent thinking. They instead claim that human beliefs often result from selective processing of information, and do not result from rational use of evidence (Haidt, 2013). People believe what they wish to believe even when they encounter opposing evidence (Jost et al., 2008 ...
Whose Republic? - Scholarship@Cornell Law
... The Internet, I will argue, is crucial to the project of deepening democracy to include marginalized groups. I agree with Sunstein that the Internet may indeed revolutionize citizenship, but I suggest that it will do so in ways different from those he perceives. Cyberspace helps give members of mino ...
... The Internet, I will argue, is crucial to the project of deepening democracy to include marginalized groups. I agree with Sunstein that the Internet may indeed revolutionize citizenship, but I suggest that it will do so in ways different from those he perceives. Cyberspace helps give members of mino ...
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... somewhat biased, but rather that there is now an expectation that the press will provide unbiased information. At the start of the Republic, newspapers such as the Aurora were little more than public relations tools funded by politicians. In the nineteenth century, independence was a rarity. As late ...
... somewhat biased, but rather that there is now an expectation that the press will provide unbiased information. At the start of the Republic, newspapers such as the Aurora were little more than public relations tools funded by politicians. In the nineteenth century, independence was a rarity. As late ...
Explaining the Global Digital Divide
... analyzed cross-sectional data for the most advanced countries only (Hargittai 1999; Oxley and Yeung 2001), while others have examined data at one point in time but including developing as well as developed countries (Beilock and Dimitrova 2003; Guillén and Suárez 2001; Maitland and Bauer 2001; Norri ...
... analyzed cross-sectional data for the most advanced countries only (Hargittai 1999; Oxley and Yeung 2001), while others have examined data at one point in time but including developing as well as developed countries (Beilock and Dimitrova 2003; Guillén and Suárez 2001; Maitland and Bauer 2001; Norri ...
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... through networking, letters and (in rarer cases) publications. 3 In Staël's case, that agency leads us to the Paris-based peace discussions of May 1814 that established the terms for the peace with France, and for the Congress of Vienna. Although drafting of the Treaty of Paris was a less celebrated ...
... through networking, letters and (in rarer cases) publications. 3 In Staël's case, that agency leads us to the Paris-based peace discussions of May 1814 that established the terms for the peace with France, and for the Congress of Vienna. Although drafting of the Treaty of Paris was a less celebrated ...
Claus Offe Participatory inequality in the austerity state: a supply
... loss of credibility if the turnout on election day were to drop below the level of, say, 30 per cent of those eligible. Such outcome would be perceived as signaling worries of large parts of the electorate about either the relevance of the alternatives (candidates, platforms) between which voters ar ...
... loss of credibility if the turnout on election day were to drop below the level of, say, 30 per cent of those eligible. Such outcome would be perceived as signaling worries of large parts of the electorate about either the relevance of the alternatives (candidates, platforms) between which voters ar ...
Introduction: What the State Is
... realized clearly and not forgotten while dealing with this criterion is that it is really evolutionary: “Kinship-based divisions [in the society] gradually lose their importance in favour of institutional, political and economic divisions” (Tymowski 2008:172; emphasis added. – D. B.). In this respec ...
... realized clearly and not forgotten while dealing with this criterion is that it is really evolutionary: “Kinship-based divisions [in the society] gradually lose their importance in favour of institutional, political and economic divisions” (Tymowski 2008:172; emphasis added. – D. B.). In this respec ...
beyond the spectacle of terrorism - Institute for the Radical Imagination
... industries, and wholly unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly. Toni Morrison1 ...
... industries, and wholly unintelligible to ourselves except for what we see as through a screen darkly. Toni Morrison1 ...
Americans Roundly Reject Tailored Political Advertising
... Political advertisers have long had an interest in targeted advertising and tailored messages. As early as 1892 Republican National Committee chairman James Clarkson boasted that he had “with two years of hard work, secured a list of the names of all the voters in all the important States of the Nor ...
... Political advertisers have long had an interest in targeted advertising and tailored messages. As early as 1892 Republican National Committee chairman James Clarkson boasted that he had “with two years of hard work, secured a list of the names of all the voters in all the important States of the Nor ...
Political Spot Advertising: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the 1996
... television is the largest advertising medium in both countries. The choice of presidential campaigns instead of other local elections in Taiwan and the U.S. is based on the fact that these elections are equivalent and significant contemporary events within both cultural settings. Literature Review C ...
... television is the largest advertising medium in both countries. The choice of presidential campaigns instead of other local elections in Taiwan and the U.S. is based on the fact that these elections are equivalent and significant contemporary events within both cultural settings. Literature Review C ...
here - UNM Political Science
... Policymaking is often thought of as a linear process, but in reality, the creation and implementation of public policy can be dynamic and complex. Our sociopolitical and economic environments inform public policy through various ways, making some issues such as immigration and abortion for example, ...
... Policymaking is often thought of as a linear process, but in reality, the creation and implementation of public policy can be dynamic and complex. Our sociopolitical and economic environments inform public policy through various ways, making some issues such as immigration and abortion for example, ...
Slide 1: Public Opinion: What do you think
... in order to exercise power over politicians. Of course, elections are the ultimate form of public opinion when it comes to controlling politicians. However, public opinion polls do serve to fill in the gaps between elections. Public opinion plays an important role in forging responsiveness and is ce ...
... in order to exercise power over politicians. Of course, elections are the ultimate form of public opinion when it comes to controlling politicians. However, public opinion polls do serve to fill in the gaps between elections. Public opinion plays an important role in forging responsiveness and is ce ...