Browsing by Subject "Public Opinion"
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Are State legislatures responding to public opinion when allocating funds for tobacco control programs?
(Health Promot Pract, 2004-07)This study explored the factors associated with state-level allocations to tobacco-control programs. The primary research question was whether public sentiment regarding tobacco control was a significant factor in the states' ... -
Challenges To Measuring Public Opinion: The Insincere, The Social, And The Measurement Approach
(2022)Scholars often recognize public opinion as a valuable metric of the collective will to compare against decisions of political leaders, but the value of public opinion also lies in its ability to serve as a ‘collective mirror.’ ... -
Do Citizens in Authoritarian Countries Censor Themselves?
(2014)Citizens' opinions in authoritarian countries are overlooked in the current research on authoritarian regimes. It is also hard to get the true opinions from the citizens. Because they might fear the consequences of disclosure ... -
Does Everyone Have a Price? The Demand Side of Clientelism and Vote-Buying in an Emerging Democracy
(2012)Public opinion tools are used to look at voter motivations to engage in clientelistic practices and their variation across structures of competition. -
How Voters Use Issues
(2021)Issue voting, where citizens select candidates based on their own policy preferences, exists as an ideal form of candidate selection in a representative democracy, with politicians being elected because they match the policy ... -
PARTAKE survey of public knowledge and perceptions of clinical research in India.
(PLoS One, 2013)BACKGROUND: A public that is an informed partner in clinical research is important for ethical, methodological, and operational reasons. There are indications that the public is unaware or misinformed, and not sufficiently ... -
Preferring Refugees: How German Attitudes Changed During the European Refugee Crisis and Along Historical State Divides
(2017-05-15)The 2015 refugee crisis brought 1.3 million migrants to Europe; of those, one million sought asylum in Germany, bringing profound social and political repercussions. Germany is now challenged with aiding and integrating ... -
Seeking the Beijing Consensus in Asia: An Empirical Test of Soft Power
(2011-04-15)The empirical study of soft power presents a challenge for social scientists. Conventional wisdom asserts that China’s soft power is growing alongside its hard power, but few scholars have been able to demonstrate this phenomenon ... -
The Politics of Gender Socialization
(2016)This manuscript is comprised of three papers that examine the far-reaching and often invisible political outcomes of gender role socialization in the United States. These papers focus primarily on two areas: political confidence ... -
Three Papers on Culture, Time, and Attitudes
(2021)This dissertation uses the lens of cultural sociology to understand variance in people’s attitude reports over time. Across three studies, I use a variety of panel surveys and statistical approaches to understand how and ...