Utilizing the Internet as a Campaign Tool: The Relationship Between Incumbency, Political Party Affiliation, Election Outcomes, and the Quality of Campaign Web sites in the United States

This chapter is an assessment of the growing use of the Internet by congressional campaigns in the United States to determine whether candidates' Websites are affected by presidential popularity. There is previous research linking low public opinion of a sitting president with a negative impact on members of his political party running for election, particularly during the midterm, but very little analysis examines this phenomenon online. The chapter examines the 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 House Republican campaign Websites to see if there is a relationship between presidential popularity and congressional online campaign behavior. An examination of Republican campaign Websites was coded based on whether President Bush was present in picture form. The authors demonstrate that there is a correlation between President Bush's popularity and his presence on these Republican congressional Websites in general and more prevalent in different regions of the country.

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Content and Quality of Legal Information and Data on the Internet with a Special Focus on the United States

International Journal of Legal Information ◽

10.1017/s0731126500008714 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (3) ◽

pp. 289-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Claire M. Germain

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Web Sites ◽

The United States ◽

The Internet ◽

Special Focus ◽

State Governments ◽

Digital Medium ◽

Legal Information ◽

Foreign Governments

SummaryIn the United States today, digital versions of current decisions, bills, statutes, and regulations issued by federal and state governments are widely available on publicly accessible Web sites. Worldwide, official (defined as “authoritative,” or “the official” word of the law) legal information issued by international organizations and foreign governments is also becoming available on the Web. However, there are currently no standards for the production and authentication of digital documents. Moreover, the information is sometimes available only for a short time and then disappears from the site. No guidelines exist either to promote a uniform way to cite to digital legal materials.This article examines the contents of legal data and information on the Internet, with a special focus on the United States. It then evaluates the quality of the data, its impact on legal research and access to legal information, and addresses some issues raised by the digital medium, such as its reliability and permanent access concerns.

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Using Presidential Popularity for Understanding the Relationship between President Bush and Congressional Republicans' Online Campaigning

Public Affairs and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-8358-7.ch069 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1409-1421

Author(s):

Christopher Latimer

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Political Party ◽

Negative Impact ◽

The United States ◽

The Internet ◽

Presidential Popularity ◽

Use Of The Internet ◽

Online Campaigning ◽

The Relationship ◽

President Bush

This chapter is an assessment of the growing use of the Internet by congressional campaigns in the United States to determine whether candidates' Websites are affected by presidential popularity. There is previous research linking low public opinion of a sitting president with a negative impact on members of his political party running for election, particularly during the midterm, but very little analysis examines this phenomenon online. The chapter examines the 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2008 House Republican campaign Websites to see if there is a relationship between presidential popularity and congressional online campaign behavior. An examination of Republican campaign Websites was coded based on whether President Bush was present in picture form. The authors demonstrate that there is a correlation between President Bush's popularity and his presence on these Republican congressional Websites in general and more prevalent in different regions of the country.

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The Relationship of Political Party Affiliation to Wildlife Conservation Attitudes

Politics and the Life Sciences ◽

10.1017/s073093840000513x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 3-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Brian Czech ◽

Rena Borkhataria

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Endangered Species ◽

Political Party ◽

Wildlife Conservation ◽

Species Conservation ◽

Endangered Species Act ◽

Party Affiliation ◽

Political Party Affiliation ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

Species conservation via the Endangered Species Act is highly politicized, yet few data have been gathered to illustrate the relationship of political party affiliation to species conservation perspectives. We conducted a nationwide public opinion survey and found that Democrats value species conservation more highly than do Republicans, and that Democrats are also more strongly supportive of the Endangered Species Act. Republicans place higher value on property rights than do Democrats, but members of both parties value economic growth as highly as wildlife conservation. The results imply that the Democratic propensity to value species conservation reflects a biocentric perspective that does not bode well for practical conservation efforts. Species conservation will depend upon the success of academicians and progressive political leaders in educating students and members of all parties about the fundamental conflict between economic growth and wildlife conservation.

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Rating Determinants Factored in E-Commerce Decision-Making

International Journal of Applied Management and Technology ◽

10.5590/ijamt.2015.14.1.01 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Juheng Zhang ◽

M. Riaz Khan ◽

Dachuan Shih

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Open Source Software ◽

Web Sites ◽

The United States ◽

User Generated Content ◽

Media Content ◽

Price Levels ◽

Wide Range ◽

Hotel Booking ◽

The Relationship

The user-generated content (UGC) Web sites are gaining popularity for a wide range of media content, such as news, blogs, forums, and open-source software. Instead of relying on information on company Web sites, users benefit by reading reviews written on UGC Web sites by consumers. Online evaluations are usually informative and reduce the information asymmetry. This study examines the problem where UGC can be expedient for online hotel booking. It investigates the relationship between the ratings obtained from the TripAdvisor.com reviewers and the hotel price levels in the United States, outside the United States, and top 20 hotels and others, respectively. Findings suggest that medium-priced hotels provide a comparable value with their high-priced counterparts. Further, the ratings for U.S. hotels are lower than others across all price levels.

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Epilogue

10.18574/nyu/9781479801480.003.0006 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 203-210

Author(s):

Jenna Supp-Montgomerie

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Electric Pulse ◽

Public Life ◽

The United States ◽

The Internet ◽

Christian Community ◽

Free Communication ◽

The World ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

The telegraph wove its way across the ocean at a time when religion’s role in public life was commonplace. Since then, networks have become more vital to everyday life in easily perceptible ways while religion is considered a less overt part of so-called secular public culture in the United States. The epilogue proposes that the relationship of telegraphic networks to the networks that shape our world today is not causal or continuous but one of resonance in which some elements are amplified and some are damped. The protestant dreams for the telegraph in the nineteenth century—particularly the promise of global unity, the celebration of unprecedented speed and ubiquity, and the fantasy of friction-free communication—reverberate in dreams for the internet and social media today. In cries that the internet makes us all neighbors reverberates the electric pulse of the celebrations of the 1858 cable’s capacity to unite the world in Christian community. And yet, it is not a straight shot from then to now. Some elements have faded, particularly overt religious motifs in imaginaries of technology. The original power of public protestantism in the first network imaginaries continues to resonate today in the primacy of connection.

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COGNITIVE HABITS LINKED TO RESILIENCE: SURPRISING COMMONALITIES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES

10.38207/jcmphr20202 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-14

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

United States ◽

Socioeconomic Status ◽

Regional Differences ◽

The United States ◽

Postal Code ◽

Improvement Plan ◽

The Relationship ◽

The Way

Abstract Background: Research has documented many geographic inequities in health. Research has also documented that the way one thinks about health and quality of life (QOL) affects one’s experience of health, treatment, and one’s ability to cope with health problems. Purpose: We examined United-States (US) regional differences in QOL appraisal (i.e., the way one thinks about health and QOL), and whether resilience-appraisal relationships varied by region. Methods: Secondary analysis of 3,955 chronic-disease patients and caregivers assessed QOL appraisal via the QOL Appraisal Profile-v2 and resilience via the Centers for Disease Control Healthy Days Core Module. Covariates included individual-level and aggregate-level socioeconomic status (SES) characteristics. Zone improvement plan (ZIP) code was linked to publicly available indicators of income inequality, poverty, wealth, population density, and rurality. Multivariate and hierarchical residual modeling tested study hypotheses that there are regional differences in QOL appraisal and in the relationship between resilience and appraisal. Results: After sociodemographic adjustment, QOL appraisal patterns and the appraisal-resilience connection were virtually the same across regions. For resilience, sociodemographic variables explained 26 % of the variance; appraisal processes, an additional 17 %; and region and its interaction terms, just an additional 0.1 %. Conclusion: The study findings underscore a geographic universality across the contiguous US in how people think about QOL, and in the relationship between appraisal and resilience. Despite the recent prominence of divisive rhetoric suggesting vast regional differences in values, priorities, and experiences, our findings support the commonality of ways of thinking and responding to life challenges. These findings support the wide applicability of cognitive-based interventions to boost resilience. Keywords: appraisal; resilience; cognitive; quality of life; societal; geographic Abbreviations: MANOVA = Multivariate Analysis of Variance; PCA = principal components analysis; QOL = quality of life; SES = socioeconomic status; US = United States; ZIP = Zone Improvement Plan (postal code)

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