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THE IMPACT OF THE PRINT MEDIA ON VOTER BEHAVIOUR
Print media has long been recognised as a significant influencer of voter behaviour, shaping public opinion through news coverage, editorials and investigative journalism, this paper examines the role of print media in democratic societies, exploring how news papers and magazines impact voter decisions during electoral cycles.
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Electoral Participation and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria
The quality of democracy is largely determined by the level and nature of citizens’ political participation. In Nigeria, however, democratic participation continues to face challenges linked to institutional weakness, electoral malpractice, insecurity ...
Amobi Chiamogu, Uchechukwu P. Chiamogu
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This study explores the critical role of voter education in shaping electoral patterns and voter behaviour in Nigeria, particularly focusing on underrepresented communities. Despite extensive voter education efforts by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and civil society organizations, Nigeria continues to face challenges such as low ...
Olumuyiwa Joseph Olaoye +2 more
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Voter emotional responses and voting behaviour in the 2020 US presidential election*
Political polarisation in the United States offers opportunities to explore how beliefs about candidates – that they could save or destroy American society – impact people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviour. Participants forecast their future emotional responses to the contentious 2020 U.S.
Heather C. Lench +5 more
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Sluggishness, Endogeneity and the Demand for Local Public Services [PDF]
Earlier studies estimating the demand for local public services by means of the median voter model have typically assumed exogenous regressors and static set-ups.
Dahlberg, Matz, Jacob, Johanna
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Bringing Government Back to the People? The Impact of Political Decentralization on Voter Engagement in Western Europe [PDF]
This paper examines how political decentralization affects levels of voter engagement. Political actors have often justified processes of political decentralization as means to “bring government back to the people.” While these claims are consistent with
Meguid, Bonnie M.
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La música en las campañas y su efecto en la conducta de los electores. El Caso de la campa��a presidencial de Barack Obama [PDF]
The paper addresses the role that music plays in electoral campaigns in general, particular emphasis is placed on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008.
Andrés Va ldez Zepeda +2 more
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Drivers Wanted: Motor Voter and the Election of 1996 [PDF]
The first presidential election following implementation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 was also the first in the lifetimes of most Americans in which a minority of the voting-age population bothered to vote.
Knack, Stephen
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Expected Benefits of Voting and Voter Turnout [PDF]
This empirical study seeks to identify key aggregate-level economic and non-economic determinants of the expected benefits from voting and hence aggregate voter turnout.
Garey C. Durden, Richard J. Cebula
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Sharing Competences: The Impact of Local Institutional Settings on Voter Turnout [PDF]
Institutions are common predictors of voter turnout. Most research in this field focuses on cross-country comparisons of voting systems, like the impact of compulsory voting or registration systems.
Peter Bönisch +2 more
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