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Gender Dynamics in U.S. House of Representatives Elections
Branton, Regina - 2010
We examine the impact of a candidate's gender on electoral success in the primary and general elections, while controlling for other factors that may influence a candidate's success such as political experience, quality of the challenging candidates, and district-level demographics. The...
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Understanding Visible Political Participation : An Analysis of Yard Sign-Displays during the 2008 Presidential Election
Sokhey, Anand E. - 2010
Displaying a political yard sign is a conspicuous element of the election experience but an understudied act of …,000 households in Franklin County, Ohio from the 2008 presidential election cycle. In addition to traditional predictors of …
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Strategic Voting Decisions in the Absence of Democratic Experience and Strong Party Ties : A Natural Experiment in the 1990 German Unification Elections
Leiter, Debra Lynn - 2010
democratic experience and strong party ties. Utilizing the 1990 German Unification Election Study, I examine a natural experiment …
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Constituency Congruency and Candidate Competition in Primary Elections for the U.S. House
Carson, Jamie L. - 2010
election. Using GIS software, we are able to derive a measure of constituency overlap by focusing on the degree of congruency … candidates start with a strong voter base, we also find that they do better in the primary election …
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