Assesses the impact of the student newspaper at Michigan State University on the decision-making of student voters in both local and national elections. (RB)

The use of an electoral college simulation model by college students is described. At least 16 students should participate to represent four geographical regions: the Northeast, the South, the Midwest, and the West. The electoral college simulation is most relevant in courses on American politics, the United States presidency, and elections.…

A study investigated the relationship of campaign media attention to cognition, strength of the commitment to the candidate choice, and probability of voting. The 1985 gubernatorial campaign in Virginia was selected for analysis. A model constructed for predicting voting tendencies hypothesizes that the role of the mass media is largely indirect,…

Designed to introduce the responsibilities of citizenship to children between 2 and 6 years of age, this 2-week lesson plan aims to ensure that children can explain the importance of voter registration and voting to their parents. It is also designed to develop in children a sense of the importance of exercising their citizenship rights.…

Describes how the community educator can develop an effective working relationship with his Congressman. (Author/DN)

One of the most difficult problems facing scholars interested in conducting empirical research concerning the gratification that audience members seek or receive from the media is measurement of gratification itself. This paper outlines the strategies commonly used by researchers and describes some of the limitations of each. Particular attention…

The stated purpose of this article is to report new findings from the New York City suburban area which confirm the importance of favorable attitudes toward integration to financial support for integrated public education: 211 parents having the majority of their school-aged children in public schools in Westchester County were interviewed.…

A study investigated whether reliance on television rather than on newspapers affected the way people made voting decisions. Specifically, it focused on whether television reliance was associated with greater candidate image evaluation and newspaper reliance with greater issue importance in the prediction of voter preferences. Telephone interviews…

This study investigated what changes in the television-personality and presidential images of the candidates would occur among first-time young voters due to the first presidential debate. Subjects, 116 18- or 19-year-old students at Purdue University, completed semantic differential forms, before and after the debate, which rated the concepts of…

This report addresses the denial of suffrage to mentally disabled persons institutionalized in Pennsylvania. The case study of Pennhurst Center patients who tried to vote in the 1976 election is described. Pertinent Pennsylvania statutes and current voting practices are analyzed. A national overview of the problem along with community and…

Relationships between perceived voter use of information sources and perceived source credibility and gubernatorial candidate preference were examined in a cross-lagged correlation design employing data from Illinois primary and general election surveys. The only significant test-retest correlation for source use and believability was for…

This study of the UCLA campus develops data which would provide an improved understanding of the differences in ways in which on- or near-campus students as opposed to commuting students tend to vote. Student voting information collected for this study pertained to the November 1972 general election. Data were collected by a questionnaire…

The sole issue discussed in this amicus brief is whether law faculty should be in a representational unit separate from the rest of the university in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) conducted elections. It is the position of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) that the NLRB should adopt a policy of preferring to place law faculty…

Studies of agenda setting, which asserts that audiences note what is emphasized in the news media and incorporate a similar set of emphases into their personal agendas, are reviewed in this essay. Separate sections consider early empirical evidence in support of the concept; contingent conditions; differing effects of newspapers and television;…