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HETEROGENEITY, ELECTORAL COMPETITIVENESS AND CONGRESSIONAL VOTING BEHAVIOR
- Date Issued:
- 1975
- Summary:
- This represents a study of the relationships between congressional district demographic characteristics, electoral competitiveness and representative voting behavior. Census data is used to compute heterogeneity scores for all congressional districts. Literature dealing with the effect of urbanization on electoral competitiveness and studies on the impact of competitiveness on congressional voting behavior are discussed. A hypothesis on the relationship between heterogeneity and electoral voting behavior is presented. Two hypotheses on the relationships between heterogeneity and congressional voting behavior are presented. Congressional behavior is measured by party unity and conservativeness. Correlational techniques arc used to study all three suggested relationships and some knowledge of such techniques is advised.
Title: | HETEROGENEITY, ELECTORAL COMPETITIVENESS AND CONGRESSIONAL VOTING BEHAVIOR. |
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Name(s): |
WIENER, DON EDWARD. Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor Huckshorn, Robert J., Thesis advisor Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Political Science |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
Issuance: | monographic | |
Date Issued: | 1975 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, Fla. | |
Physical Form: | application/pdf | |
Extent: | 67 p. | |
Language(s): | English | |
Summary: | This represents a study of the relationships between congressional district demographic characteristics, electoral competitiveness and representative voting behavior. Census data is used to compute heterogeneity scores for all congressional districts. Literature dealing with the effect of urbanization on electoral competitiveness and studies on the impact of competitiveness on congressional voting behavior are discussed. A hypothesis on the relationship between heterogeneity and electoral voting behavior is presented. Two hypotheses on the relationships between heterogeneity and congressional voting behavior are presented. Congressional behavior is measured by party unity and conservativeness. Correlational techniques arc used to study all three suggested relationships and some knowledge of such techniques is advised. | |
Identifier: | 13744 (digitool), FADT13744 (IID), fau:10576 (fedora) | |
Collection: | FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection | |
Note(s): |
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975. |
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Subject(s): | United States--Congress--House--Election districts | |
Held by: | Florida Atlantic University Libraries | |
Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13744 | |
Sublocation: | Digital Library | |
Use and Reproduction: | Copyright © is held by the author, with permission granted to Florida Atlantic University to digitize, archive and distribute this item for non-profit research and educational purposes. Any reuse of this item in excess of fair use or other copyright exemptions requires permission of the copyright holder. | |
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Host Institution: | FAU | |
Is Part of Series: | Florida Atlantic University Digital Library Collections. |