Sentences with phrase «voting behavior»

Unfortunately, it may not be reflected in actual voting behavior.

Since I have a Ph.D. in political science (albeit from a Canadian university), some people expect me to know something about voting behavior.

A psychological study of voting behavior suggests an answer and points to a simple fix.

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.

Also, let's ignore that such a system could have a profound impact on voting behavior and assume that the proportions of votes per candidate in each state would be consistent to what we saw in the actual election.

These findings are very important in understanding how aging affects voting behavior generally, especially as older adults are a critical voting population.»

This categorization is very helpful: we can identify religious groups with distinctive voting behavior while also showing substantial political differences between «traditionalists» and «modernists» in each major tradition.

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.

Note that this collection of nominal Protestants, Catholics, Jews, and others closely resembles the fully secular group in voting behavior.

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.

Using this measure of distance, DW - NOMINATE is able to recover the «dimensions» that inform congressional voting behavior.

Unlike Coronel, he was working off a walk list that included only those Democrats who, through past voting behavior, seemed likely to vote in this election.

And it's not surprising because after party affiliation, the number one determinant of voting behavior nationally is ethnicity.»

But several Republicans said they were afraid that emphasis was missing the way voting behavior is changing here.

Holbein's study is the first to link large - scale school administrative records and individual voting behavior.

«The Klan's efforts to link voting behavior to its social agenda in the 1960s disrupted long - established voting patterns in the South,» Cunningham explains.

To find out, Lenz teamed up with Andrew Healy, a political scientist at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, and tested the simulated voting behaviors of 7000 people with a series of 29 surveys and experiments.

The model also showed that these intuitions matched up with real - world voting behavior.

We did not survey «likely voters,» but it is reasonable to suggest that public opinion intensities, reflected by Champions and Dissidents, could translate to more active voting behavior.

Regardless of these amusing possibilities, it is unlikely that the Alabama Supreme Court will side with Price's brazenly unconstitutional power grab if party identification is as good a predictor of voting behavior there as it is in the legislature.

It is Campbell's contention, on the basis of ingenious mining of many data sources — longitudinal and other large - scale studies from which we can extract voting behavior, political attitudes, and various background factors that might explain them — that it is community, place, that plays a central role in cultivating the idea of voting as a duty.

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.

The authors also suggest that bad actors could use AI to create «automated, hyper - personalized disinformation campaigns,» in which «Individuals are targeted in swing districts with personalized messages in order to affect their voting behavior.»

Frank notes specifically the effect of union membership 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.

Voter intimidation is any concerted effort or practice by an individual or group to coerce the voting behavior of a particular class or demographic of voters.

For example, one theory of voting behavior is the Michigan Model.

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.

«This might be one election where polls drive voting behavior, as opposed to polls describing voting behavior.»

In short, if a sense of doom and gloom about society can influence people's voting behavior, it can influence the direction of a country — and it might already have for the US, the UK, and elsewhere.

For example, in a 61 - million - person experiment published in Nature, researchers show that political mobilization messages delivered to Facebook users directly impacted the voting behavior of millions of people.

From there you moved on to a study of 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.

Modern extensions of statistical mechanics (sometimes now called statistical physics) have been applied to everything from materials science and magnets to traffic jams and voting behavior.

Following this largely unexpected result, some explanations pointed to the role of a voter's age, gender or education in their voting behavior while others wondered whether the «Leave campaign» might have mobilized xenophobic attitudes by emphasizing a fear of foreigners.

To figure out the voting behavior of those not surveyed, Strasma applied what is called the nearest - neighbor algorithm.

Using personality data from 417,217 British and 3,167,041 United States participants, researchers tested regional levels of fear, anxiety and anger, comparing them to the traits historically correlated with political orientation (openness and conscientiousness) to measure the link between regional psychological climate and 2016 voting behavior.

In the following chart we see that, as it would be expected, the Common Core issue should greatly influence the voting behavior of Champions and Dissidents.

In our new study, we track the voting behavior of students who participated in the voucher experiment.

Traditional analytics firms used voting records and consumer purchase histories to try to predict political beliefs and voting behavior.

Moreover, while Facebook has been developing and promoting this tool, it has also been quietly conducting experiments on how the company's actions can affect the voting behavior of its users.

It's not clear how effective Cambridge Analytica's ads were in terms of changing people's voting behaviors.

To target them with personalized political messages and influence their voting behavior.

Traditional firms gather information from voting records and histories of consumer purchases to predict political beliefs and voting behavior.