Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241)

The electoral system has already become the important foundation of modern democratic politics; the following one is to expand political participation day by day. Democratic theories have attended the political participation of the masses in the past, which is to say that the discussions of electoral right and meaning, so that candidate qualification have not been discuss clearly. There is a delicate relation of political participation between political equal in candidate qualifications: The candidate qualification is set up to ensure the equal of political participation¡H Or causes the unequal participation? Those questions are not easy to say. This thesis thinks that the various degree candidate qualifications will have make different meaning of poltical participation and political equality, and it reflects different democratic meaning too, even improving the qualification is a result of authoritarian regimes. Because it lacked to research candidate qualifications in the past, this thesis attempted to be the first visited study of candidate qualifications. So two research face in this thesis: First, designing the model of candidate qualifications, political participate and political equality as distinguishing the index, and annotating the meaning of candidate qualifications under the democratic system or authoritarian regimes. Second, the case study of Taiwan: studying on the change of candidate qualifications and analyzing the qualifications of sex and academic background by that former model in this thesis. Finally, I believe it can reinterpretation and confer democracy by the studying on the change of candidate qualification.

Thesis (M.A.)--Ball State University, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Dec. 14, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. [42]-48).

This paper examines the relationship between a voter's level of political knowledge and the choice to vote. The issue of voter turnout is one of the major topics in American politics and has been studied extensively. This study seeks to fill a gap in the current body of academic research that fails to account for the significance of political knowledge as a predictor of voter turnout. Since political knowledge is, in part, a product of many other variables (including both socio-demographic and psychological), it serves as a single predictor that can encompass elements of other predictors. Using 2004 NES data, this study shows that an increase in campaign political knowledge is significantly correlated with an increase in the likelihood that the respondent will vote. / Department of Political Science

Typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references. / Microfiche. / xxiii, 481 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2005. / Adviser: Leila Fawaz. Submitted to the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-233). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Resources Development, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Nov. 17, 2008) Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-155). Also issued in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Dept. of Anthropology, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, August, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Kim D. Reimann, committee chair; Charles R. Hankla, Tianjian Shi, Jennifer L. McCoy, committee members. Electronic text (249 p. : col. ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Sept. 17, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-208).