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Moore, Roy L. – 1976
This study investigated the relationship between media use and political activity in a sample of 380 Charlotte, North Carolina, registered voters. Although voters were interested in the campaign (particularly as it came to an end), they rarely engaged in political activities other than discussing politics and voting. Political activities measured…
Descriptors: Activism, Behavior Patterns, Elections, Mass Media
Altman, Michael – 1975
This study was part of a larger study examining the attitudes of various groups toward elections, campaigns, and a variety of issues. This portion of the study dealt with students, 336 of whom were interviewed. In addition, 40 questionnaires were randomly drawn from two groups of students--those who registered to vote and those who did not. The…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, College Students, Educational Research
Thomas, David A. – 1975
In a presidential election campaign, any dimension of an image is important if it motivates the voters to favor or disfavor a candidate. Therefore, to study what motivates electoral behavior is one way to study the persuasion of image building in presidential campaigns. In this paper some of the research in presidential election campaigns is…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elections, Higher Education
Campbell, Bruce A. – 1976
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between psychological traits and voting behavior. Investigated is the thesis that psychological traits are useful concepts for political scientists as predictors of consistency in behavior. Contending that previous trait theory research has been generally unimpressive, the author…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Personality Studies
Atwood, L. Erwin; Jarvis, Dennis – 1976
Using stepwise multiple regression, voting behavior was predicted from semantic differential scale evaluations of the winning candidate in four voting situations: the 1972 Presidential race in Illinois and Missouri and the gubernatorial races in the two states. "Image" was defined in terms of the semantic differential scales, and "image voters"…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Credibility, Information Sources
Masterson, John T.; Biggers, J. Thompson – 1983
Defining emotional responses as the interaction of three primary emotions occurring along pleasure-displeasure, arousal-nonarousal, and dominance-submissiveness continua, a study hypothesized that (1) a systematic relationship exists between the emotions elicited by the candidate and voting behavior, and that (2) the emotions elicited by…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Behavior Patterns, Emotional Response, Higher Education
Lawton, Stephen B. – 1974
The understanding of the political behavior of school boards can be advanced by conducting factor analysis of the voting records of trustees. While the application of these methods is generally appropriate, differences in subject matter highlight the problem of inferring political theory from numerical data. In this paper, several different…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Board of Education Policy, Boards of Education, Factor Analysis

Lezotte, Lawrence W. – 1976
An aspect of the Lansing, Michigan desegregation process that is examined in this paper is the school elections which have been held since 1969. The purpose of this examination is to determine what, if any, reliable voting patterns can be found in the Lansing community relative to the desegregation process. The assumption underlying this analysis…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Citizenship Responsibility, Community Attitudes, Community Role
Richardson, Bradley M. – 1977
The survey reviews recent research on political behavior in Japan and describes the nature and institutional setting of political science in Japan. Political science is regarded as a small academic discipline which is frequently an adjunct to another academic department within a university. Political scientists in Japan have exhibited less…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Citizen Participation