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Political Psychology Analysis of Voter Behavior in the Election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Makassar Sakkarang Subdistrict Community Makassar City [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
This research analyzes changes in voter behavior in Sangkarrang Sub-district, Makassar City, using a political psychology perspective. The main focus of this study is to understand the fundamental factors that drove the significant increase in voter ...
Maulani Madpirah
doaj   +1 more source

Cooperative learning strategies to raise attainment in mathematics with pupils aged 11–16 years: A systematic literature review

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Cooperative learning is a widely adopted teaching method to improve academic achievement. This review synthesises existing research on the use of cooperative learning within a school setting for pupils aged 11–16 years. Such a review has not been undertaken to date and will present an evidence base for educators considering implementation ...
Patricia Hampson, Zhe. Li, Allen Thurston   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Turnout Decline in Romanian National Elections: Is it that Big?

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia, 2015
According to official data, Romanian voter turnout decreased by half for the period 1990-2012. Gaps between official and self-reported turnout are larger than those from similar countries.
Comşa Mircea
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Vote Centers as a Strategy to Control Election Administration Costs

SAGE Open, 2014
The rising costs of election administration in an era of fiscal stress have motivated some local officials to test the feasibility of ideas for reducing election costs while enhancing voter convenience and perhaps even increasing voter turnout.
David H. Folz
doaj   +1 more source

Trying to Turn up the Turnout: Youth Wings and the Youth Vote in the 2015 General Election

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2015
The political participation of 18 to 24-year-olds in British general elections is substantially lower than for other age groups. As a result, young people are frequently labelled in the media as being disaffected with traditional politics.
Sarah Pickard
doaj   +1 more source

Absolutely Relative: How Education Shapes Voter Turnout in the United States. [PDF]

Soc Indic Res, 2023
Kim Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Voter Turnout and City Performance [PDF]

, 2014
We study the impact of exogenous variation in Italian municipal elections'voter turnout rates on city performance scores and elected mayors' indicators of valence. First, we build a simple model of voluntary and costly expressive voting, where the relative weight of ideology and valence issues over voting costs determines how people vote, and if they ...
LO PRETE, Anna, REVELLI, Federico
openaire   +2 more sources

‘Self’ and ‘othering’ as a byproduct of large‐scale assessment: An investigation into the Gaokao retake policy

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract While Gaokao, the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE), has been extensively discussed outside the Chinese academic circle, the retake policy of the test has not received much attention. Moreover, Gaokao research in China has predominantly examined the effectiveness of the retake decision in relation to students' demographic ...
Yifeng Cheng, M. Obaidul Hamid
wiley   +1 more source

Americans discount the effect of friction on voter turnout. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022
Mazar A, Tomaino G, Carmon Z, Wood W.
europepmc   +1 more source