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The Questionable Death Of Jim Crow: How Systemic Racism Impacts Voting Accessibility By Ways Of Wait Times, Icarus Laduke-Lott May 2023

The Questionable Death Of Jim Crow: How Systemic Racism Impacts Voting Accessibility By Ways Of Wait Times, Icarus Laduke-Lott

Political Science Theses and Capstones

Racial identity and perception thereof are consistent themes throughout the history of the United States. Countless studies have attempted to measure the impact of this factor on everyday life, with present research finding the lives of non-white individuals to be needlessly burdened due to systemic and individual prejudice. But how does this extend to the realm of political accessibility? And if the impact is great, can we truly claim that the era of Jim Crow is over? To address this question, I utilized the data collected by the Cooperative Election Study in 2020, working to emphasize the impact of systemic …


Categorizing Written Responses With A Dictionary Approach, Maxime St-Jean Apr 2023

Categorizing Written Responses With A Dictionary Approach, Maxime St-Jean

Reports

No abstract provided.


Ideology And The Incumbency Advantage, Gabe Degraeve Apr 2023

Ideology And The Incumbency Advantage, Gabe Degraeve

[Archive] Belmont University Research Symposium (BURS)

Incumbents win reelection at a staggering rate (upwards of 75%) the causes of this are well understood and examined. The numerous material benefits (access to a larger staff, fundraising ability, name recognition, etc.) paired with the psychological benefits (scare-off effect, lack of high-quality candidate, etc.) make it very hard for a potential challenger to win in an election against an incumbent. There however has been a decrease in the incumbency advantage over the past several election cycles. Since both the material and psychological benefits are still present, another factor is likely contributing to this decrease. Ideology has become …


Does Money Matter In House Elections?, Jake Matise Apr 2023

Does Money Matter In House Elections?, Jake Matise

Political Science Theses and Capstones

Although campaign spending has always been prevalent in American political society, the aftermath of decisions like Citizens United has led to higher amounts of election spending than ever before. But does spending have an observable effect on the outcome of elections? This paper evaluates the effect of campaign spending on winning an election using data from the 2020 House election cycle. The data I used consists of every House election from 2020, with seats ranked on a competitiveness scale from “safe Republican/Democrat” to “toss-up” (as categorized by 270ToWin), as well as recording incumbent or challenger victories, and the amount of …


Political Participation Among Canadians: Are Young People Disengaging? Public Report (8) 2023-03-30, Maxime St-Jean Mar 2023

Political Participation Among Canadians: Are Young People Disengaging? Public Report (8) 2023-03-30, Maxime St-Jean

Reports

No abstract provided.


The Right To Rebel And The Insurrection At The Capitol: What Causes Support For The Events Of January 6th, Tanner Butler Mar 2023

The Right To Rebel And The Insurrection At The Capitol: What Causes Support For The Events Of January 6th, Tanner Butler

Undergraduate Research Journal

On January 6th, there was a riot at the Capitol of the United States where protestors attempted to overturn the 2020 Presidential Election. While attempting this, the protestors took over the halls of Congress. This study will be looking at what is causing people to support this political violence. The focus will be to see if people's beliefs that the protestors were within the right to rebel that John Locke lays out in his social contract theory are important for explaining the support for the riot. Survey data provided the basis for statistical analysis that demonstrated a strong connection between …


Perceived Party Differences, Election Outcomes, And Satisfaction With Democracy, Hannah M. Ridge Mar 2023

Perceived Party Differences, Election Outcomes, And Satisfaction With Democracy, Hannah M. Ridge

Political Science Faculty Articles and Research

Multiple studies have identified a significant gap between electoral winners’ satisfaction with the functioning of their democracy and electoral losers’ satisfaction. This disparity is attributed to the diverging policies the parties would enact. For this to be true, citizens must perceive true differences among the parties. Using thirty-one post-election surveys from twenty-five countries, this study finds that the win-loss satisfaction gap is conditioned by the perceived differences among the political parties in the democracy. The effect of winning or losing on citizens’ satisfaction is significantly larger when citizens identify greater differences among the parties. This effect is driven by the …


C-Dem Advisory Council Meeting February 15, 2023, C-Dem Research Project Feb 2023

C-Dem Advisory Council Meeting February 15, 2023, C-Dem Research Project

Meeting Notes

No abstract provided.


La Liberté D'Expression Et Les Propos Haineux: Les Attitudes Des Canadiennes Et Canadiens, Antoine Thériault Feb 2023

La Liberté D'Expression Et Les Propos Haineux: Les Attitudes Des Canadiennes Et Canadiens, Antoine Thériault

Reports

No abstract provided.


Elections And Post Traumatic Stress: Evidence From The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, Timothy Fraser, Costas Panagopoulos, Kevin Smith Jan 2023

Elections And Post Traumatic Stress: Evidence From The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, Timothy Fraser, Costas Panagopoulos, Kevin Smith

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

The 2020 U.S. presidential election saw rising political tensions among ordinary voters and political elites, with fears of election violence culminating in the January 6th riot. We hypothesized that the 2020 election might have been traumatic for some voters, producing measurable symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). We also hypothesized that negative sentiment towards the opposing party correlates with PTSD. We measured PTSD with a modified PCL-5, a validated PTSD screener, for 573 individuals from a nationally representative YouGov sample. We modeled the association between affective polarization and PTSD, controlling for political, demographic, and psychological traits. We estimate that 12.5% …


Won't You Be My Senator?: Nuanced “Friends And Neighbors” Voting In U.S. Senate Elections, 1968–2018, Charles R. Hunt Dec 2022

Won't You Be My Senator?: Nuanced “Friends And Neighbors” Voting In U.S. Senate Elections, 1968–2018, Charles R. Hunt

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Recent experimental scholarship shows that local “place identity” continues to matter to voters' assessments of candidates, echoing early findings by Key (1949) and others demonstrating electoral boosts in candidates’ home areas. But it is yet to reexamine these “friends-and-neighbors” effects in the observational context, nor does it parse differences between effects of local candidate roots and current candidate residency. This paper closes these gaps using an original county-level dataset of incumbent reelection races for the U.S. Senate from 1968 to 2018 (N = ∼34,000 county-years). I show that the friends-and-neighbors effect is more nuanced than previously thought, applying to candidate …


What The Hell Is Wrong With America? The Truth About Racism And Justice For All, James E. Wright Ii, Stephanie Dolamore, Rajade M. Berry-James Sep 2022

What The Hell Is Wrong With America? The Truth About Racism And Justice For All, James E. Wright Ii, Stephanie Dolamore, Rajade M. Berry-James

Journal of Public Management & Social Policy

No abstract provided.


Votes And Voices: Minority Languages And Electoral Substate Nationalism In Spain And The United Kingdom, Valeryn Shepherd May 2022

Votes And Voices: Minority Languages And Electoral Substate Nationalism In Spain And The United Kingdom, Valeryn Shepherd

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Substate nationalist political parties are a key component of the electoral politics of Spain and the United Kingdom. The demographic support that these parties receive is often tied to speakers of regional languages. In this paper, six regions in the two countries - Scotland, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Galicia - are examined using geographic data analysis to determine whether communities with a high level of minority language speakers are more likely to vote for substate nationalist parties. In most of the cases, I find that there is a strong connection between the two.


Pursuit Of The Vote: Factors Utilized In Resisting Discrimination In Democratic Elections, Matthew Nicholson Apr 2022

Pursuit Of The Vote: Factors Utilized In Resisting Discrimination In Democratic Elections, Matthew Nicholson

Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects

Suffrage movements make use of various social and political factors to pressure their governments to expand the scope of voting rights. Using McAdam’s political process model, I will analyze how disenfranchised groups’ use of nonviolent demonstration, appeals to international pressure, and appeals to religion, affects their success. This will also highlight patterns that emerge when groups are willing to instigate violence in pursuit of their goals. Most studies examine these variables in the context of the pursuit of independence or revolution, whereas this study focuses on groups wishing to remain within a system given their desired reforms. I will analyze …


For Our Future: Why Suffrage Must Be Extended To Disenfranchised Youth, Nolan Mchugh Apr 2022

For Our Future: Why Suffrage Must Be Extended To Disenfranchised Youth, Nolan Mchugh

Honors Projects

Is our democracy truly representative if large portions of our population consistently fail to make their voices heard at the polls? 18-24 year olds consistently turn out to vote at the lowest levels of any age group, and yet these are the voters who will live the longest with the policy decisions being made today: how can we improve voter turnout and civic engagement in the next generation to ensure our democracy is truly "by the people and for the people?" To answer this question, we must turn to another group whose voices are not heard at the ballot box, …


Compassion, Respect And Governance: How Legislative Gender Quotas Influence Physical Integrity Rights, Daniel Partin Apr 2022

Compassion, Respect And Governance: How Legislative Gender Quotas Influence Physical Integrity Rights, Daniel Partin

Helm's School of Government Conference - 2021-2024

This paper addresses the substantive political outcomes of legislative gender quotas and considers the influence of gender quota rules upon the governmental respect for physical integrity rights that are observed within states.


Ballot Measures In The Tristate: An Examination Of Ohio, Indiana And Kentucky, Shauna Reilly Jan 2022

Ballot Measures In The Tristate: An Examination Of Ohio, Indiana And Kentucky, Shauna Reilly

The Journal of Economics and Politics

This paper explores the development, use and challenges facing the use of direct democracy in the Tristate area. Specifically, we examine how ballot language suppresses participation in direct democracy measures.


C-Dem Annual Report 2022, Allison Harell, Laura Stephenson Jan 2022

C-Dem Annual Report 2022, Allison Harell, Laura Stephenson

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.


Polarization And Campaign Dynamics: C-Dem Forum Presentation, Sarah Lachance, Richard Johnston Jan 2022

Polarization And Campaign Dynamics: C-Dem Forum Presentation, Sarah Lachance, Richard Johnston

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Canadian Provincial Elections During The Covid-19 Pandemic: C-Dem Forum, Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau, Holly Ann Garnett Jan 2022

Canadian Provincial Elections During The Covid-19 Pandemic: C-Dem Forum, Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau, Holly Ann Garnett

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Partisanship And American Nationalism: C-Dem Forum, Leonie Huddy, Alessandro Del Ponte, Jacob Martin, Caitlin Davies Jan 2022

Partisanship And American Nationalism: C-Dem Forum, Leonie Huddy, Alessandro Del Ponte, Jacob Martin, Caitlin Davies

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Electoral Democracy In A Post-Pandemic World: Centring The Citizen C-Dem Forum Presentation, Sabreena Delhon Jan 2022

Electoral Democracy In A Post-Pandemic World: Centring The Citizen C-Dem Forum Presentation, Sabreena Delhon

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Pluralism In Canada: Black Canadian Lives Matter? Attitudes On Racial Inequalities In Canada, Ruth Dassonneville, Nadjim Fréchet Jan 2022

Pluralism In Canada: Black Canadian Lives Matter? Attitudes On Racial Inequalities In Canada, Ruth Dassonneville, Nadjim Fréchet

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Covid 19 And The Polarization Of The American Public: C-Dem Forum Presentation, Matthew Lebo, David A. Armstrong Ii, Timothy B. Gravelle, Hannah Verrips Jan 2022

Covid 19 And The Polarization Of The American Public: C-Dem Forum Presentation, Matthew Lebo, David A. Armstrong Ii, Timothy B. Gravelle, Hannah Verrips

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Diversity And Canadian Electoral Democracy: Western Allienation And Gender, Jared Wesley, Lisa Young, Loleen Berdahl, Lauren Hill Jan 2022

Diversity And Canadian Electoral Democracy: Western Allienation And Gender, Jared Wesley, Lisa Young, Loleen Berdahl, Lauren Hill

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Pluralism In Canada: Intergroup Relations And Belonging: Evidence From The Canada Report Of The Global Pluralism Monitor, Daniel Westlake, Caroline Dick, Keith Banting Jan 2022

Pluralism In Canada: Intergroup Relations And Belonging: Evidence From The Canada Report Of The Global Pluralism Monitor, Daniel Westlake, Caroline Dick, Keith Banting

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Diversity And Canadian Electoral Democracy: Racial Discrimination At The Polls? The Case Of Jugmeet Singh, Matthew Polacko, Allison Harell Jan 2022

Diversity And Canadian Electoral Democracy: Racial Discrimination At The Polls? The Case Of Jugmeet Singh, Matthew Polacko, Allison Harell

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Collaborative Research On Elections: Élections Québec, Monica Rosales Jan 2022

Collaborative Research On Elections: Élections Québec, Monica Rosales

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Collaborative Research On Elections: Elections Saskatchewan, Michael Boda Jan 2022

Collaborative Research On Elections: Elections Saskatchewan, Michael Boda

C-Dem Forum 2022

No abstract provided.


Do Question Topic And Placement Shape Breakoff Rates, Luke Plutowski, Elizabeth Zechmeister Jan 2022

Do Question Topic And Placement Shape Breakoff Rates, Luke Plutowski, Elizabeth Zechmeister

Workshop: Survey Design Under Constraints

No abstract provided.