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Gender, Race, Age and Voting: A Research Note
Ansolabehere, Stephen
Hersh, Eitan
big data; gender; race; SES; U.S. elections; voter registration; voting
In this brief analysis, we use a new dataset of two million voter registration records to demonstrate that gender, race, and age do not correlate with political participation in the ways that previous research has shown. Among Blacks and Latinos, women participate at vastly higher rates than men; many Blacks participate at higher rates than Whites; and the relationship between age and participation is both not linear and varies by race and gender. Survey research is unable to capture the true relationship between demographics and participation on account of survey bias and, more importantly, the non-linearity of effects. As a result, theories of participation, like the dominant resources-based models, have been built on faulty premises and tested with inadequate data. Our evidence calls for a renewed effort to understand election participation by utilizing large datasets, by being attentive to linearity assumptions, and by returning to theory.
Cogitatio Press
2013-09-10
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/97
10.17645/pag.v1i2.97
Politics and Governance; Vol 1, No 2 (2013): Multidisciplinary Studies in Politics and Governance; 132-137
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10.17645/pag.i13
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/97/75
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2023-12-27T08:56:40Z
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Assessing the Relationship between Presidential Rhetorical Simplicity and Unilateral Action
Olds, Christopher
anti-intellectualism; Flesch readability; political communication; presidential rhetoric; rhetorical simplicity; unilateral action
Research from Shogan (2007) and Lim (2008) on the executive branch proposes that the American presidency has adopted an anti-intellectual approach to leadership, such that there is a concerted rejection of thoughtful political discourse from the president. This has been reflected by what appears to be a relative decline in both the linguistic and substantive complexity of presidential rhetoric. Shogan’s (2007) work, while focused on examining whether Republicans are more apt to employ anti-intellectual leadership than Democrats, raises an additional topic worthy of empirical examination: the potential relationship between anti-intellectual leadership and unilateral action from the president. If anti-intellectual leadership is a defiant form of leadership that opts to publicly demonstrate the rejection of external expertise, the usage of anti-intellectual rhetoric from the president might be able to predict the usage of unilateral action. On the other hand, anti-intellectual rhetoric might be used as a straightforward and quick means to explain unilateral action, such that change in the level of unilateral action can predict the usage of simplistic rhetoric. Unfortunately, no one has yet to empirically test whether rhetorical simplicity predicts unilateral action, unilateral action predicts rhetorical simplicity, or there is a multi-directional relationship present. This project makes an initial attempt to remedy this gap in the literature. The project contrasts the monthly average simplicity level of the presidential weekly public address with the monthly number of executive orders emanating from the executive branch, using information spanning between February 1993 and May 2015. The initial findings from the vector autoregression and moving average representation analyses suggest that prior change in rhetorical simplicity predicts the usage of executive orders, and that an increase in rhetorical simplicity helps produce an increase in the number of executive orders offered by the president.
Cogitatio Press
2015-09-02
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/303
10.17645/pag.v3i2.303
Politics and Governance; Vol 3, No 2 (2015): Multidisciplinary Studies in Politics and Governance; 90-99
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10.17645/pag.i24
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https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/303/196
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