Communication through elections : three studies exploring the determinants of citizen behavior
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Elections are an occasion for citizens to communicate their desires to government in a democracy. Although we typically think of the electoral communication environment as flowing from citizens to their government, the decisions of those citizens are not made in a vacuum. More than simply processors of political information, citizens make choices about whether and how to vote based on a wide range of inputs. This dissertation explores how citizens are influenced by three of these factors: knowledge of candidate issue positions, attitudes about individuals of different races, and the ordering of candidates' names on the ballot. Analysis of each of these influences reveals that candidate issue positions appear to have less of an impact on the decision to participate than many had hypothesized and that both citizens' racial attitudes and the ordering of candidates names had a significant influence on electoral choices -- changing the messages citizens sent to their government. Together, these studies present a portrait of electoral behavior as more diversely impacted than might otherwise be apparent.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Pasek, Joshua Michael Hirsh |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Communication |
| Primary advisor | Krosnick, Jon A |
| Thesis advisor | Krosnick, Jon A |
| Thesis advisor | Fishkin, James S |
| Thesis advisor | Iyengar, Shanto |
| Thesis advisor | Jackman, Simon, 1966- |
| Advisor | Fishkin, James S |
| Advisor | Iyengar, Shanto |
| Advisor | Jackman, Simon, 1966- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Joshua Michael Hirsh Pasek. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Communication. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Joshua Michael Hirsh Pasek
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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