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1	Dynamics in Elections: Studying Changes in West Virginia's Electoral Systme Underwood, Billie Jean 14 November 2001 (has links) Among scholars in the field of state and local politics, the value of using the state and local levels of analysis cannot be overemphasized. Examining political trends at these levels often provides us with far more information about the United States than only looking at the national level. This is true particularly for subjects like elections, parties, and realignment. The research reported here adds to a body of literature that focuses on the state level when examining elections and party realignment. In this thesis I focus on the dynamics of elections in West Virginia. The main focus of this research is to see to what to extent West Virginia has experienced a realignment of its political party system. Due to regional differences within the state I anticipate that more change will occur farther north and east. The data used here to explore these differences are at the county and state legislative district levels and were gathered from the Secretary of State's office in West Virginia (on-line) and from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. census. Such measures as turnout, registration and election results at the federal and state levels will be used to indicate changes in partisan competition. / Master of Arts Elections Campaigns State and Local Elections Partisan Competition Voting Realignment Dealignment
2	The effect of partisan competition on affective polarization, tolerance of election cheating, & political engagement Clarke, Erik 30 August 2022 (has links) No description available. Political Science Psychology Behavioral Sciences partisan competition political competition political psychology polarization experiments surveys election perceptions affective polarization social polarization political knowledge vanishing marginals election cheating democratic values cross-pressure cross-cutting exposure ambivalence

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Dynamics in Elections: Studying Changes in West Virginia's Electoral Systme

The effect of partisan competition on affective polarization, tolerance of election cheating, & political engagement