What Are the Effects of Educational Mobility on Political Interest and Participation in the Indian Electorate?

Asian Survey ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 423-439
Author(s):  
Reetika Syal
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
National Election ◽  
Political Interest ◽  
Educational Mobility ◽  
Access To Resources ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Economic Constraints ◽  
Election Studies

Abstract This article finds, through statistical analysis of the National Election Studies (2004) data, that an increase in intergenerational education levels can positively influence an individual's political interest and political participation. Participatory trends in India are influenced by demographic factors such as caste, class, gender, income, and locality. However, this study finds that education can have a liberating effect from these various socio-economic constraints. It can provide greater access to resources and information, thus helping to increase active political participation.

Do Confident People Behave Differently?

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Albarracín ◽  
Wei Wang ◽  
Dolores Albarracín
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
National Election ◽  
Politics And Government ◽  
Political Behaviors ◽  
Election Studies

This chapter reports analyses drawn from the 2006 American National Election Studies Pilot Study. It focuses on the extent to which defensive confidence influences partisan defection and affects other political behaviors. In addition, also considers several interrelated issues: whether or not the levels of defensive confidence differ across demographic and ethnic groups; what we can learn about citizens' attention to politics and government affairs and to the news and if these forms of attention are related to defensive confidence and partisan defection; and if people with higher levels of defensive confidence are more likely to participate in politics than people with lower levels of defensive confidence. The chapter first provides an overview of defensive confidence and its development in the literature. It then presents an analysis of the influence of defensive confidence on partisan defection, attention to government and politics, attention to the news, and political participation.

Political Participation, Polarization, and Public Opinion

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Aldrich ◽  
Melanie Freeze
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Opinion Dynamics ◽  
National Election ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Peripheral Position ◽  
Election Studies

This chapter considers how dynamics in public opinion combine with changes in participation and in the degree of elite (specifically, congressional) polarization in this regard. It begins by discussing the systematic changes in polarization and participation. Since the importance of a liberal-conservative dimension and left-right thinking in the public may be of less obvious importance for understanding American politics, given its peripheral position in the study of public opinion, this chapter develops a set of claims regarding its existence and relevance and then considers how it might fit into the polarization-participation-public opinion dynamics. To support its arguments, the chapter draws on data from American National Election Studies (ANES) surveys, surveys of donors to political campaigns, and surveys of delegates to national conventions.

scholarly journals Strategic Canvassing by Political Parties, 1952-1990

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 213-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter W. Wielhouwer
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
National Election ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Party Organizations ◽  
Election Studies ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Local Party

The activities of political parties, and particularly local party organizations, are geared toward cultivating the relationship between the electorate and those who govern. This paper adds to the theoretical and empirical literature on party activities by focusing on one of the primary mechanisms by which parties attempt to stimulate political participation on behalf of their candidates: the party canvass. Using the 1952-90 National Election Studies, I examine the contacting patterns of the two major U.S. parties, and argue that political parties contact individuals in the electorate not randomly, but strategically, targeting their canvassing efforts to specific individuals and groups within the electorate. This can only be done imperfectly, but with technological increases over the last 40 years, the parties have become somewhat more efficient in their contacting activities and in their ability to target such contacts.

The National Election Studies Revisited

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nelson Wiseman
Keyword(s):  
National Election ◽  
Election Studies

scholarly journals FAIR national election studies: How well are we doing?

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-668
Author(s):  
Christina Eder ◽  
Alexander Jedinger
Keyword(s):  
National Election ◽  
Election Studies

scholarly journals Las elecciones presidenciales en EEUU 2012-2016. Un estudio comparativo desde una perspectiva estatal e individual

Norteamérica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Ortiz ◽  
Ma. Edith Pacheco Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
National Election ◽  
Election Studies

En este artículo nos preguntamos: ¿Cuál fue la capacidad explicativa de la desigualdad y la pobreza en el ámbito estatal en las elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unido en 2012 y 2016? ¿Cuál fue el balance estatal en las elecciones presidenciales en Estados Unidos? Y exploramos a nivel individual, utilizando la “American National Election Studies Survey”, ¿qué variables nos ayudan a entender el voto en favor de los candidatos presidenciales republicanos en 2012 y 2016? Así, para contestar nuestras preguntas realizamos dos análisis, uno, en el ámbito estatal, y otro, a partir de los votantes, con el fin de explicar los resultados contrastantes de 2012 y 2016.

The Effects of the Race of the Interviewer on Race-Related Attitudes of Black Respondents in SRC/CPS National Election Studies

1988 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Anderson ◽  
Brian D. Silver ◽  
Paul R. Abramson
Keyword(s):  
National Election ◽  
Election Studies

American National Election Studies on CD-ROM

1995 ◽  
Vol 28 (03) ◽  
pp. 533-534
Author(s):  
Erik W. Austin ◽  
Steven J. Rosenstone
Keyword(s):  
National Election ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
Election Studies
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