Sentences with phrase «voting behavior of»

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.

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

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.

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.

My Princeton political science colleagues Nolan McCarty and Howard Rosenthal, together with Keith Poole at the University of Houston, have done a statistical analysis showing that the voting behavior of a congressman is much better predicted by his party affiliation today than it was 25 years ago.

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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.

The most offensive aspect of Romney's is its crude application of the theory that economic incentives not only influence but determine political behavior, including voting.

The rationalization of southern baptists is truly mind boggling — the idea that each church is «autonomous» as justification for outright racism is pitiful in this day and age — if the Southern Baptist convention had come out strongly and adamantly against this kind of behavior, I'd have at least a measure of respect for them — but to shrug off a blatant act of discrimination as the «work of the devil» and ignore the deacon's cowardice in wanting to avoid «controversy» is laughable — if it weren't for people having the courage to fan the flames of controversy, women and african american would not have the right to vote today — more evidence of the ignorance of most bible thumpers, and Mississippi in particular

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.

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

After all, it was only three years from the time that femi and gays first zapped the APA at a behavior therapy session to the time that the Board of Trustees voted in 1973 to approve removing homi from the list of mental disorders.

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.

Although Silver's legislative grants and votes qualified, his conviction was reversed because prosecutors also put in evidence of a lot of other behavior that might not qualify, and jury instructions didn't correctly describe the new standard.

«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.

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

There has in fact been a persistent puzzle among economists, especially the variety that believe that all human behavior is rational, concerning why it is that people vote in such large numbers when their vote almost never make a difference, not only at the Presidential level, but even at the level of local elections.

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

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 students.

The California Senate could vote to expel a Democratic member accused of inappropriate behavior toward young women in his office.

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

In separate federal court trials in Manhattan last year, each man's alleged «official acts» included a mixture of actual exercises of governmental power — like casting votes and providing funding — and more subtle behavior, like arranging meetings, providing job references and making phone calls.

Should they again fail, voters must make a resolution of their own: to hold accountable at the voting booth not only the wrongdoers, but those who aid and abet their behavior from the state's halls of power.»

Miles served as district manager for CB9 for 22 years until Tuesday night when the board voted to remove her from the position, citing «a longstanding pattern of misconduct» and «unprofessional behavior,» it said in a letter of removal.

Paladino believes that Reda's behavior is that of a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and declares that Reda is occupying his local position in Rockland County illegitimately by surviving a challenge to his leadership through the illicit procedure of being reelected by a «voice» vote.

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.

«What I think it means is there's a lot of cases where there's kind of inappropriate or unappealing behavior by politicians, and that kind of stuff isn't going to get prosecuted unless the government can really point to a specific vote or funding grant or official action,» Kramer said.

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».

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.

From there you moved on to a study of 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.

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.

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.

Although other studies have implicated right wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation in voting for radical right - wing parties because of the perceived threat of immigrants, collective narcissism has almost never been examined in the context of political behaviors such as voting.

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.

The two agencies» behavior fits a pattern, however: Last year, Spain reduced its contribution to the European Space Agency, and it paid its 2011 contribution to CERN in December of 2012, more than a year late, putting its voting rights in danger.

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

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.

Engage removes the randomness factor of online dating by providing a social networking platform that allows your friends to be your matchmaker, as well as a voting system to rate the behavior of Engage community members.

Suffragette dramatizes London women's struggle for the right to vote and the most ungentlemanly behavior of the police trying to stop them.

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.

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.

Dr. Jason S. Dean, vice chairman of the state education board, voted for the plan, but said it sounded as if expectations for student behavior were low or non-existent in the district or with Jackson leadership.

Importantly, these iShares ETFs have a clear proxy voting policy «consistent with the principle that «socially responsible» shareholders are concerned not only with economic returns and sound corporate governance, but also with the ethical behavior of corporations and the social and environmental impact of their actions.»

Technical analysis reflects the vote of the entire marketplace and, therefore, does pick up unusual behavior.

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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.