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Efficacy of inoculation strategies in promoting resistance to political attack messages: Source credibility perspective.
(2003)
Taken together, the results of this dissertation indicate that inoculation is an effective resistance option for candidates in deflecting the influence of political attack messages delivered in both political advertising ...
An examination of the influence of technology inclusion in determining the outcome of school bond issue elections in Oklahoma.
(2001)
Multiple regression was used to identify any significant predictors of affirmative voting percentages at the .05 level of confidence, and a regression equation was developed from this analysis. Only one variable, the ...
The intersection of feminism and Indianness in the activism of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller.
(2002)
My work offers a comparative examination of the use of feminism and Indian identity in the careers of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller. While they took different paths to political activism, Harris as the wife of a United ...
(Not so) Divine comedy: A content analysis of humorous political ads.
(2000)
The current study is a content analysis of 379 humorous political advertisements from 1952 to 1996 in every election level from civic to presidential. Percentages, Chi Square analyses and one-sample t-tests are employed ...
Democratic stabilizing strategies: Public and private sector elites in Spanish regime politics.
(2002)
The dissertation examines the neglected role of regional elites in the process of democratic consolidation in Spain. Spain represents a case (or cases) of the successful consolidation of democracy, despite serious impediments ...
The destruction of the Trinity River, California (1848--1964).
(2007)
Abstract not available.
It's my party...: Examining women as partisans within the United States Congress.
(2002)
The present work utilizes multiple data sources and methodological approaches to offer a more thorough analysis of the nuances of women's legislative behavior. In the first section, interview data is combined with Member- ...
Ella Baker and the SNCC: Grassroots leadership and political activism in a nonhierarchical organization.
(2007)
In SNCC, both men and women worked side by side in rural America. Some of SNCC's successes were due to the work of the large number of Black and White women in the organization. The study describes how SNCC promoted the ...
Working in the 'gray' area of a "permanent campaign": The routine, political and campaign activities of congressional district staff.
(2001)
The district staff members of incumbents in the United States House of Representatives perform vital representational and electoral functions. Nearly half of all personal staff in the United States Congress work 'back home' ...
Multilateral military intervention analysis in the post-Cold War era.
(2001)
During the Cold War era, U.S. foreign policy goals concentrated on containing Soviet expansion. Containment was a simple, yet powerful, idea that provided a strategic vision of world politics in an essentially stable bipolar ...