Sentences with phrase «on voting behavior»

Unlike previous elections, fear and worry played a heavy hand in both the 2016 Donald Trump and «Brexit» elections, changing the script on how personality shapes political behavior, according to an international psychological study on voting behavior.

To investigate these questions further, researchers from the UK, Poland and Portugal measured the effect of xenophobia — or the belief that immigrants to the UK threaten the country — on voting behavior.

The truth is that there's very little evidence that Cambridge Analytica's particular methods have any different effect on voting behavior than any other digital political campaign efforts.

But the truthiness of the narrative is irrelevant - only the level of influence the narrative has on voting behavior.

For federal elections, data - driven campaigns get two data points on voting behavior every two years: whether someone voted in a primary (and which one) and whether they voted in the general election.

Frank notes specifically the effect of union membership on voting behavior.

Not exact matches

In March, the Senate voted to ease regulations on all but the largest banks, which would raise the level at which banks are considered «systemically important» and exempts smaller banks from other rules aiming to curb risky behavior.

Those appointments are important because commissioners» votes can affect the behavior of corporations, influence the returns on your retirement savings, and shape the economy altogether.

Duterte, who won just under 40 % of the vote in a five - way presidential election last May, remains popular in the Philippines, despite his at - times bellicose behavior and his bloody crackdown on drugs, which has claimed thousands of lives.

On the equity side, some funds add «best of the worst» companies to encourage better corporate behavior via proxy voting, such as prodding energy companies to produce more renewable energy.

Primarily, however, it is the television industry itself that has been driven by attempts to develop theories and practices which would bring about certain predictable kinds of behavior — to get people to buy a particular brand, to prefer one product over another, to vote for a particular candidate, and so on.

Since it was a presidential election year, I decided to focus my social psychology course on the psychology of political attitudes: how they are formed, how they are maintained, and how they can predict voting behavior.

The Senate on Tuesday is scheduled to vote on a bill that's aimed at cracking down on lewd behavior on public transportation.

«When Sen. Velmanette Montgomery gives her life and her soul to work on a package of reforms to the juvenile justice system, which we certainly need in this state, and then Ruben Diaz Sr. decides that he's going to vote against it because he's upset the Republicans are debating it too long it's unreasonable and capricious and it's the kind of irrational behavior that we've had to endure for the past eight years,» Parker told me.

On Thursday, the board voted 6 - 2 to demand Paladino's resignation, with members calling him «unambiguously racist,» «morally repugnant,» and a person with «a pattern of racist and negative behaviors» whose words would have an «incalculable» impact on the children of color who constitute the majority of Buffalo's public - school studentOn Thursday, the board voted 6 - 2 to demand Paladino's resignation, with members calling him «unambiguously racist,» «morally repugnant,» and a person with «a pattern of racist and negative behaviors» whose words would have an «incalculable» impact on the children of color who constitute the majority of Buffalo's public - school studenton the children of color who constitute the majority of Buffalo's public - school students.

Why don't you focus on Stefanik's sneaky, lying behavior regarding her vote on the Affordable Care Act?

Given all this curious behavior, the voters in Clarkstown should take a long, hard look at Councilwoman Lasker's track record before blindly voting on row A in November.

If, as appears to be the case, the New Rochelle Police Department hushed up Latimer's car crash to shield her from unwanted attention on her relationship with Latimer you start to raise questions about ethical behavior by a sitting judge in New York State and conflicts of interest because one of three ways a Judge can be removed from the bench is to be impeached by a majority vote of the assembly then removed by a two - thirds vote a special court made up of judges of the court of appeals.

He went on to explain to Chairman Wolfe that actually his own behavior had some aspects of which he was complaining were coming from Ed Day saying that he was an independent legislator and referring obliquely to Chairman Wolfe's own arrogance stated he «would like not to have others decide for me what I need before I can vote on something».

From there you moved on to a study of voting behavior.

Unlike other studies that have looked at the influence of social media on election outcomes, their study, «More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior,» took into account such variables as incumbency, partisanship, media coverage, and socio - demographic makeup of the electorate.

Between Paul's outrageous behavior and Stan's distractions with a pending vote on a bill he proposed, well, you can cut the tension with a knife.

After allegations of sexually exploitative behavior appeared on Twitter one day before Oscar voting closed, James Franco was snubbed of his expected Best Actor nomination, a move which will help the Academy avoid a controversy like last year's Casey Affleck's win.

These prior studies are based largely on non-experimental comparisons of survey responses of similar students in public and private schools, whereas our study is the first to examine data on the actual voting behavior of students who participated in a choice lottery.

Although the research is mixed on Catholic schools» influence on test scores, their students are more likely to graduate from high school, attend college, earn higher wages, and engage in pro-social behaviors like voting and volunteerism.

Because wild cats have been blamed for killing millions of small mammals and birds each year, Fish and Wildlife officials Friday voted to prohibit the release, feeding and protection of cats on land the agency manages and discourage such behavior on other public lands.

According to one expert who researches how internet platforms influence voting behavior, it's extremely unlikely Cambridge Analytica's activities on Facebook impacted the outcome of the election more than Google's platform was exploited to support Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

This paper identifies problems with The DAO's mechanism design that incentivise investors to behave strategically — that is, at odds with truthful voting on their preferences and then outline potential attacks against The DAO made possible by these behaviors.

He revealed Cambridge Analytica quietly collected data on Facebook users and weaponised that data, in a sense, by targeting people with misinformation and specific ads designed to change their behavior (like, whether to believe in a cause or vote a certain way).

Angelina Pivarnick, the fiery party girl made infamous from her antics on The Jersey Shore, has been dating Chris Nirschel, the chef whose bad - boy behavior got him voted off of Season 7 of The Next Food Network Star.

In this issue's President's Message, Heather Peshak George encourages APBS members to vote in this year's APBS Board Elections and provides an update on plans for the 14th International Conference on Positive Behavior Support to be held in Denver, Colorado, March 1 - 4, 2017.

In this issue's President's Message, Steve Goodman and Rose Iovannone encourage APBS members to vote in this year's APBS Board Elections and provide an update on plans for the 15th International Conference on Positive Behavior Support to be held in San Diego, California, March 28 - 31, 2017.

But I feel that one day this behavior will end, as more and more Realtors insist on direct, voting, involvement.