Browsing by Subject "elections"

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Ambition vs. Success in Latin America's Left
(2007) Weyland, Kurt
Analysis of Dimension Expansion in Spatial Modeling of American Voter Behavior
(2018-05) Parrott, Zachary; McIver, John; Jessee, Stephen
Understanding voter behavior has the potential to give us key insights and reflections on election outcomes and even serves useful in managing campaigns and predicting election outcomes. Yet political scientists have yet to create an accurate model of voting behavior. In fact, the most popular theories assert that there isn’t much political sophistication to understand or interpret. Spatial Theory however, asserts that there is political sophistication but in the form of an underlying ideological framework, or an Ideology. Spatial Theory seeks to understand and predict voter behavior by relying on ideological similarities between candidates and voters. But spatial theory isn’t perfect either. Spatial models may be one of the most predictive models of voter behavior, but it is undeniably missing out on some predictive feature that affects voting behavior. The goal of this research is to attempt to find these missing features and to see if they can be adjusted for. If these features exists and can be accurately adjusted for, they may complete the model. The most obvious of these potential features are common demographical features that have been known and empirically shown to have different voting behaviors as populations. I hypothesize that these demographic features affect a voter’s world view and value systems. I believe that if I adjust for the effects of these features in my measurement of ideology, my model will get closer to more accurately reflecting voter behavior.
Athenian Clubs in Politics and Litigation
(University of Texas at Austin, 1913-01-08) Calhoun, George Miller
The Case for No More Elections
(2022-04-05) Shettigar, Naran
Constitution and Bylaws
(2006-10-12) UT Pride and Equity Faculty-Staff Association
Constitution and Bylaws of the UT Pride and Equity Faculty and Staff Association
Is Electability Overrated?
(2019-11-05) Vanden Hoek, Conner J.
The LIBERATOR, Issue 5
(University of Texas at Austin, 2012-10-08) University of Texas at Austin; Maneen, Cassie; Smith, Cheyenne
PEFSA Officer Descriptions
(2009-04-09) UT Pride and Equity Faculty-Staff Association
These are the job descriptions of the PEFSA officers.
Pillars of Electoral Flaws: Election Security
(2022-03-10) Cowman, Connor
Pillars of Electoral Flaws: The Electoral College
(2022-05-02) Cowman, Connor
Progressivism En Vogue? An Analysis of Electoral Support for House Co-sponsors of H.R. 1384 (Medicare for All Act of 2019)
(2021) Trivisonno, Ross
In spring of 2019, Rep. Pramila Jayapal introduced H.R. 1384, the largest, most sweeping iteration of the late John Conyers’ longstanding ‘United States National Healthcare Act,’ this time dubbed the ‘Medicare for All Act of 2019.’ Despite ultimately dying in committee, it marked a massive revival and revision of the act first introduced in 2003. It was co-sponsored by 118 progressive Democrats in the House, roughly aligning with Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) membership – and then some. While not called to a floor vote, the bill served as marked political theatre and had something of a rallying effect on its co-sponsors’ campaign coffers/profiles with countless liberal PACs and special interest groups endorsing them, fundraising, and providing valuable unearned media attention. H.R. 1384 was the most definitive progressive-left policy of the 116th Congress, so how did its co-sponsors’ electoral performances fare afterwards? This research attempts to answer that question with a comprehensive electoral analysis of the era.
Raise Your Voice - Vote!
(2022-08) Brandt, Sarah; Bastone, Gina; Grotelueschen, Ryn; Jarzombek, Hannah
Teachers in a New Political Landscape
(Texas Education Review, 2020) Chevalier, Andrea; Gonzalez, Mary E.
Teachers’ positionality within the political landscape has evolved rapidly over recent election cycles. In Texas, nationwide teacher advocacy and anti-teacher state legislation motivated teachers to become politically involved. Increased teacher voting greatly impacted the 2018 election results, which led statewide leaders and legislators of the 86th Texas legislative session (2019) to center teachers as a key component of school finance reform. Moving forward, it is important to understand other factors that are interrelated with the positionality of the education profession, such as gender, class, and the ability to run for office. Additionally, in order to maintain their centrality in the legislative decision-making process, teachers must develop action plans collectively.
Why Don’t People Vote?: A Quantitative Study and Analysis of Voter Turnout in Mayoral Elections in Large American Cities
(2020-05) Patison, Michael
Voter turnout is one of the most important keys to a fully functioning representative democracy. Without an actively voting electorate, the American democratic experiment ceases to function properly. As such, voter turnout is of paramount importance in understanding the health of American democracy and the institutional and demographic hurdles that stand in its way. Most research on voter turnout as a general concept in American democracy is focused on the national and state levels, but municipal governments arguably have a greater impact on the day-to-day lives of the citizenry. Four questions were examined by the study. These questions revolved around why turnout in mayoral elections is so low, what factors are most important is helping dictate how high municipal voter turnout is, and how these factors may help explain differences in turnout between cities with different levels of turnout. The analysis found that, at least in the largest American cities, turnout in mayoral elections is largely contingent on when elections are held, how important the highest office on the ballot is, and how competitive the electoral contest is.