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Columbia University
1.
Stollwerk, Alissa Florence.
Essays on the Measurement of Public Opinion.
Degree: 2017, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VT24DV 
► The study of public opinion has become increasingly central to our understanding of American politics. What the American public believes, why it holds those beliefs,…
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▼ The study of public opinion has become increasingly central to our understanding of American politics. What the American public believes, why it holds those beliefs, and whether or not those beliefs matter have become essential questions that guide our understanding of how American democracy functions. In order to answer these questions, however, it is important to consider the tools we use to measure public opinion accurately and reliably and to understand the substantive applications and limitations of those tools. This dissertation is composed of three essays that consider important questions in public opinion measurement today. The first considers how the technique of multilevel regression with poststratification (MRP) performs on polling data collected using area-based cluster sampling techniques. While MRP has been a boon to researchers with limited resources, it must still be examined to understand its strengths and shortcomings. The second paper uses two datasets to look at the measurement of scales of political values over time, focusing on both individual and state-level measures, and discusses implications of these results for larger debates around the measurement of partisan sorting and polarization. The third paper turns to the question of social desirability bias in polling. Specifically, it uses list experiments to look at whether survey respondents answer truthfully when asked about support for same-sex rights. These papers all aim to shed light on recent innovations in the measurement of public opinion and illustrate how we can use these innovations to improve our understanding of American public opinion.
Subjects/Keywords: Political science; Public opinion; Public opinion polls
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APA (6th Edition):
Stollwerk, A. F. (2017). Essays on the Measurement of Public Opinion. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VT24DV
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Stollwerk, Alissa Florence. “Essays on the Measurement of Public Opinion.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed April 14, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VT24DV.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Stollwerk, Alissa Florence. “Essays on the Measurement of Public Opinion.” 2017. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Stollwerk AF. Essays on the Measurement of Public Opinion. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VT24DV.
Council of Science Editors:
Stollwerk AF. Essays on the Measurement of Public Opinion. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2017. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8VT24DV
2.
Chatterjee, Avhishek.
Understanding dynamics and resource allocation in social networks.
Degree: PhD, Electrical and Computer engineering, 2015, University of Texas – Austin
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/32421
► Widespread popularity of various online social networks has attracted significant attention of the research community. Research interest in social networks are broadly divided into two…
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▼ Widespread popularity of various online social networks has attracted
significant attention of the research community. Research interest
in social networks are broadly divided into two categories:
understanding the social or human network dynamics and harnessing the social network
dynamics to gain economic, business or political advantage using minimal
resource. These two research directions fuel each other.
Better understanding offers better resource utilization/allocation in harnessing
the network and the need for better resource utilization/allocation
drives the fundamental research in understanding
human networks. This thesis considers important problems in both
directions as well as at their intersection.
We first study
opinion dynamics in social networks. We propose a new stochastic
dynamics which generalizes two widely used and complementary models of
opinion
dynamics, graph-based linear dynamics and bounded confidence dynamics
into a single stochastic dynamics. We analytically study the conditions under which
such dynamics result in reconciliation or some sort of consensus. Our findings
relate well to observed behaviors of societies.
The next problem that we consider is related to designing personalized/targeted
advertisements or campaigns for social network users. Currently viral marketing
or campaigning rely only on the structure of the friendship graph. In reality
friends may have different opinions on different topics or issues. It is understood that
if opinions regarding a topic were known one could design better
targeted campaigns. We propose algorithms which can infer opinions of people
by observing their interactions regarding a topic or an issue. As data
gathering and computation requires resources, our algorithm is designed to
work with fewer such resources for a broad class of social networks and
interaction patterns.
A recent trend among different businesses
is to work with social software providers (e.g., Lithium, Salesforce.com)
to engage consumers online and often involve the online
crowd directly in developing and running business ideas.
This trend, popularly known as crowdsourcing uses human cloud to
do jobs that cannot be done by machines. Crowdsourcing
has been successfully used to do simple human tasks (Amazon Mechanical Turk),
scientific research (fold.it), freelance software development(oDesk) as well
as in impacting the lives of people in poverty (Samasource).
Many big business houses use crowdsourcing, e.g., Microsoft, Samsung, Intel etc.,
IBM harness its employee pool using internal crowdsourcing.
As employing humans (a.k.a. agents) for jobs,
and especially for skilled jobs (like software
development, scientific studies) is costly, an efficient job to agent allocation
is key to the success of crowdsourcing. Motivated by this, in the last part of
the thesis we study efficient resource allocation in skill-based crowdsourcing
platforms.
Advisors/Committee Members: Vishwanath, Sriram (advisor), Baccelli, Francois (committee member), Sanghavi, Sujay (committee member), Shakkottai, Sanjay (committee member), Sirbu, Mihai (committee member), Varshney, Lav (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Social networks; Crowdsourcing; Opinion dynamics; Opinion inference
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APA (6th Edition):
Chatterjee, A. (2015). Understanding dynamics and resource allocation in social networks. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2152/32421
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chatterjee, Avhishek. “Understanding dynamics and resource allocation in social networks.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2152/32421.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chatterjee, Avhishek. “Understanding dynamics and resource allocation in social networks.” 2015. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Chatterjee A. Understanding dynamics and resource allocation in social networks. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/32421.
Council of Science Editors:
Chatterjee A. Understanding dynamics and resource allocation in social networks. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2152/32421
University of Otago
3.
Lau, Felicia.
Of Cetaceans and Men: Anthropocentric Investigations into the Whaling Debate
.
Degree: 2011, University of Otago
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1753
► Abstract Public perception of the whaling issue is one small part of the field of Science Communication, which requires more research. The research done in…
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▼ Abstract Public perception of the whaling issue is one small part of the field of Science Communication, which requires more research. The research done in this study is important in further expanding that knowledge. There are various issues underlying the conflict between anti-whaling and pro-whaling forces, such as the intelligence of whales, the safety of eating whale meat and the humaneness of the methods used to kill whales. These issues can frame public perception of whaling, which has not received much attention, compared to the political, cultural and historical aspects of the whaling issue. The research question for this study was: Are there any identifiable and influential factors that might be used to change people’s minds on the whaling issue? The methodology used in this study is known in market research as a web-based research method, which involves the use of an online survey. The survey was designed in four parts to determine the respondent’s level of interest in the whaling debate, their position in the whaling issue, their opinions on whaling, their willingness to change their minds, based on hypothetical scenarios concerning the whaling issue and demographic information. The website surveymonkey and hardcopy surveys were the sampling frame, non-probability sampling techniques were employed and a minimum sample size of 400 was chosen. Various methods of advertising such as posters, flyers and newspaper advertisements were used to attract potential respondents to the survey. Hardcopies of the survey were also distributed to all of the University of Otago residential colleges and were used for respondents to complete the survey in person. Exploratory and regression analyses were performed on the data using the statistical program R. The exploratory results show that the majority of respondents are female, in their 20s, Europeans from New Zealand, employed, not vegetarian and not religious. As for the attitudes of the respondents to whaling, the attitude of the New Zealand public is extremely anti-whaling, which is reflected in their opinions that whales are intelligent creatures. The majority of respondents approve of a sustainable method of whaling but do not think that commercial whaling can be sustainable. The majority of respondents do not approve of indigenous people continuing to hunt whales for food. The majority of respondents do not approve of whaling on either an ecological or moral grounds. The majority of respondents do not think that the proposal by the IWC would resolve the whaling debate. The main conclusion of this study from the results of the regression coefficients is that young people from non-whaling countries, who are not religious, can be more easily convinced to adopt pro-whaling attitudes if they are shown evidence that whales are unintelligent creatures. Those more sympathetic towards the whalers are more easily persuaded to change their attitudes as well. However, the difficulty in persuading the pro-whaling respondents to adopt anti-whaling attitudes could be due to the…
Advisors/Committee Members: Fleming, Jean (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: whaling;
public opinion
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Lau, F. (2011). Of Cetaceans and Men: Anthropocentric Investigations into the Whaling Debate
. (Masters Thesis). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1753
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lau, Felicia. “Of Cetaceans and Men: Anthropocentric Investigations into the Whaling Debate
.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Otago. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1753.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lau, Felicia. “Of Cetaceans and Men: Anthropocentric Investigations into the Whaling Debate
.” 2011. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Lau F. Of Cetaceans and Men: Anthropocentric Investigations into the Whaling Debate
. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Otago; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1753.
Council of Science Editors:
Lau F. Of Cetaceans and Men: Anthropocentric Investigations into the Whaling Debate
. [Masters Thesis]. University of Otago; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/1753
University of Debrecen
4.
Kohári, Gergely.
Sentiment Analysis
.
Degree: DE – TEK – Bölcsészettudományi Kar, 2013, University of Debrecen
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/156926
► The aim of sentiment analysis is to gain specific information from any given text that is grammatical. This extraction provides us with more accurate data…
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▼ The aim of sentiment analysis is to gain specific information from any given text that is
grammatical. This extraction provides us with more accurate data about the meaning, intended by
the text's creator. The key to this information is sentiment analysis. Without this analysis the
possible interpretation of the author’s sentence could not be detected or might be misunderstood. In
the case of an ambiguous sentence the recipient can rely on such an analysis to decide what the
original meaning was. This way all the computable information can be graded, on the phrase and
sentence level of a text. The notion of opinions about the words and sentences can help to evaluate
in complex sentences. In the process of extracting information natural language processing,
computational linguistics and text analytics is applied. On the long run this model can help the users
to receive useful data. In the recent studies of
Opinion mining and Sentiment analysis the
researchers come to a logical consequence. To a certain point, mostly about seventy percent of a
data can accepted as to be valid. Among the methods of Sentiment Analysis this paper will also
mention a few existing issues and ideas about the problems it has to overcome
Advisors/Committee Members: Rákosi, György (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: opinion mining;
methodology
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Kohári, G. (2013). Sentiment Analysis
. (Thesis). University of Debrecen. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2437/156926
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kohári, Gergely. “Sentiment Analysis
.” 2013. Thesis, University of Debrecen. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2437/156926.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kohári, Gergely. “Sentiment Analysis
.” 2013. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Kohári G. Sentiment Analysis
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/156926.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Kohári G. Sentiment Analysis
. [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/156926
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Ryerson University
5.
Bailey, Helen.
Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Among Undergraduate University Students.
Degree: 2010, Ryerson University
URL: https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A6293
► Attitudes regarding bisexuality are examined using an experimental design; the relationships between these attitudes and two common predictors of negative attitudes regarding lesbians and gay…
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▼ Attitudes regarding bisexuality are examined using an experimental design; the relationships between these attitudes and two common predictors of negative attitudes regarding lesbians and gay men (i.e., authoritarianism and social dominance) are also investigated. Participants were asked to read a vignette describing either a gay or bisexual man and provide reactions to this man via a 25-item questionnaire. The questionnaire contained items pertaining to five attitude dimensions: stability, tolerance, likeability, sexuality, and morality. When reading a vignette describing a bisexual man, participants rated him as being less stable in terms of his sexual identity than a gay man. Additionally, a relationship was found between levels of political authoritarianism and social dominance and participants' attitudes regarding bisexuality. These findings are examined in light of current theories and research examining bisexuality and attitudes regarding lesbians and gay men. Limitations and considerations for future research are also discussed.
Subjects/Keywords: Lesbians – Public opinion; Bisexuality – Public opinion; Bisexuals – Public opinion; College students – Attitudes; Students – Attitudes; Gay men – Public opinion
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Bailey, H. (2010). Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Among Undergraduate University Students. (Thesis). Ryerson University. Retrieved from https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A6293
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bailey, Helen. “Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Among Undergraduate University Students.” 2010. Thesis, Ryerson University. Accessed April 14, 2021.
https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A6293.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bailey, Helen. “Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Among Undergraduate University Students.” 2010. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Bailey H. Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Among Undergraduate University Students. [Internet] [Thesis]. Ryerson University; 2010. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A6293.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Bailey H. Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Among Undergraduate University Students. [Thesis]. Ryerson University; 2010. Available from: https://digital.library.ryerson.ca/islandora/object/RULA%3A6293
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Vanderbilt University
6.
Long, Meridith Taylor.
Compassion in Red and Blue: The Politics of Who Cares about Whom.
Degree: PhD, Political Science, 2016, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12979
► My dissertation uses several different methods to examine the role of compassion in politics, both at the citizen and elite level. I explore elite appeals…
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▼ My dissertation uses several different methods to examine the role of compassion in politics, both at the citizen and elite level. I explore elite appeals to compassion through a content analysis of a selection of congressional and presidential speeches, finding that politicians often appeal to concern for others in need but that the parties differ widely in their use of these appeals. I combine this with an analysis of several waves of the General Social Survey to understand how individuals connect compassion to their political preferences. I find that proclivities toward compassion do not differ between partisans in the public but that partisan differences emerge in the effects of compassion. I find that highly compassionate Democrats have more liberal views on issues for which Democratic elites have made compassion more relevant, as outlined in my content work, such as capital punishment and help for the poor. Likewise, highly compassionate Republicans have more pro-life views, in accordance with the messages of compassion for unborn children by Republican elites. Highly compassionate individuals of both parties are more charitable in the private sector, indicating that compassion has similar effects on partisans when it is not tied to politics. I link these approaches with a sequence of experiments that reveal that compassionate rhetoric by elites activates individuals’ compassion. Perceptions of controllability might also influence whether or not people connect compassion to their preferences. I begin to test this hypothesis in my second experiment, and I find some evidence suggesting that perceptions of controllability are also influential in explaining political divisions.
Advisors/Committee Members: Larry M. Bartels (committee member), John G. Geer (committee member), Eric Groenendyk (committee member), Marc J. Hetherington (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: compassion; politics; public opinion; empathy
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Long, M. T. (2016). Compassion in Red and Blue: The Politics of Who Cares about Whom. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12979
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Long, Meridith Taylor. “Compassion in Red and Blue: The Politics of Who Cares about Whom.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12979.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Long, Meridith Taylor. “Compassion in Red and Blue: The Politics of Who Cares about Whom.” 2016. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Long MT. Compassion in Red and Blue: The Politics of Who Cares about Whom. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12979.
Council of Science Editors:
Long MT. Compassion in Red and Blue: The Politics of Who Cares about Whom. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12979
Vanderbilt University
7.
Abernathy, Claire Elizabeth.
Legislative Correspondence Management Practices: Congressional Offices and the Treatment of Constituent Opinion.
Degree: PhD, Political Science, 2015, Vanderbilt University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12665
► Studies of representation have shown that, generally, Representatives and Senators are responsive to constituent opinion. However, research focused on the policy congruence of elected officials…
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▼ Studies of representation have shown that, generally, Representatives and Senators are responsive to constituent
opinion. However, research focused on the policy congruence of elected officials has lacked attention to the important intermediate step of how members of Congress learn about district views. What practices do congressional offices engage in to develop their understanding of constituent
opinion? Using data from an original survey of congressional staff from 107 House offices, my dissertation explores how congressional offices process information about constituent
opinion, focusing, in particular, on how Representatives and their staffs use constituent correspondence to inform their views of district interests. The dissertation provides the first systematic account of how constituent letters, emails, phone calls, faxes, and social media contacts are treated in congressional offices. I find that offices have different policies for which types of constituent correspondence they will record in their contact databases, and how they will summarize and communicate the content of district correspondence to others in the office. In the dissertation, I test several explanations for this observed variation across offices, and I explore how the correspondence practices that offices adopt impact Representatives’ legislative behavior. While office decisions about how to treat constituent correspondence do not seem to relate to Representatives’ abilities to accurately assess constituent
opinion or to respond to constituent preferences in their roll-call voting, the correspondence management practices that offices adopt do relate to their success in advancing important legislative initiatives through Congress. Offices that take advantage of the information that correspondence offers are more likely to see their policy proposals move further through the legislative process. By concentrating on how Representatives come to understand the policy preferences of their constituents, my dissertation elaborates on how the representative-district relationship functions and assesses how meaningful a role constituency views play in congressional behavior.
Advisors/Committee Members: Larry M. Bartels (committee member), Bruce I. Oppenheimer (committee member), John R. Wright (committee member), Alan E. Wiseman (Committee Chair).
Subjects/Keywords: constituent opinion; representation; Congress
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Abernathy, C. E. (2015). Legislative Correspondence Management Practices: Congressional Offices and the Treatment of Constituent Opinion. (Doctoral Dissertation). Vanderbilt University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12665
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Abernathy, Claire Elizabeth. “Legislative Correspondence Management Practices: Congressional Offices and the Treatment of Constituent Opinion.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Vanderbilt University. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12665.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Abernathy, Claire Elizabeth. “Legislative Correspondence Management Practices: Congressional Offices and the Treatment of Constituent Opinion.” 2015. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Abernathy CE. Legislative Correspondence Management Practices: Congressional Offices and the Treatment of Constituent Opinion. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12665.
Council of Science Editors:
Abernathy CE. Legislative Correspondence Management Practices: Congressional Offices and the Treatment of Constituent Opinion. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Vanderbilt University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/12665
Queens University
8.
Lockrey, William.
Opinions of Surveillance in the Pre-Snowden Era: A Three-Country Comparative Analysis
.
Degree: Sociology, 2014, Queens University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12567
► The field of surveillance studies as a whole is sorely lacking empirical data. This thesis includes and analyzes data of public opinions of surveillance across…
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▼ The field of surveillance studies as a whole is sorely lacking empirical data. This thesis includes and analyzes data of public opinions of surveillance across the United States of America, Canada, and the United Kingdom. This thesis uses multiple statistical models at the univariate, bivariate and multivariate levels. Ultimately, a country-stratified complementary log-log regression is used analyze the 2012 Globalization of Personal Data (GPD) follow-up dataset. The findings of this thesis show that the majority of respondents in all three countries find surveillance to be highly intrusive. There is also a positive correlation between the knowledge of surveillance technologies and feelings of intrusion – that is, typically, the more knowledgeable one is about surveillance, the more intrusive they find surveillance. There also appear to be stronger feelings of intrusiveness of surveillance in the United Kingdom in comparison to the United States and Canada. Also, respondent’s form the United Kingdom who believe that community CCTV is not very, or not at all effective show the highest single-variable influence on the feelings of intrusiveness than those who believe it is ‘very effective’ while controlling for all variables. Therefore, the concluding results of this analysis show that the pre-Snowden era of public opinion in regards to surveillance is already highly negative – yet new and old technologies continue to spread ubiquitously. Thus, it is apparent that in Western liberal democracies public support for surveillance is desired, but not required. Public support of surveillance technologies greatly reduces barriers for the spread of technologies, but surveillance technologies can, and do spread without public knowledge or support through a myriad of ways. This thesis provides a strong snapshot of public opinion data that can be used as a ‘benchmark’ for future analyses that seek to measure the impacts of the Snowden revelations and other momentous surveillance events.
Subjects/Keywords: Surveillance
;
Public Opinion
;
Neoliberalism
;
Snowden
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Lockrey, W. (2014). Opinions of Surveillance in the Pre-Snowden Era: A Three-Country Comparative Analysis
. (Thesis). Queens University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12567
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lockrey, William. “Opinions of Surveillance in the Pre-Snowden Era: A Three-Country Comparative Analysis
.” 2014. Thesis, Queens University. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12567.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lockrey, William. “Opinions of Surveillance in the Pre-Snowden Era: A Three-Country Comparative Analysis
.” 2014. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Lockrey W. Opinions of Surveillance in the Pre-Snowden Era: A Three-Country Comparative Analysis
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Queens University; 2014. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12567.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Lockrey W. Opinions of Surveillance in the Pre-Snowden Era: A Three-Country Comparative Analysis
. [Thesis]. Queens University; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/12567
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
9.
Poirier, Damien.
Des textes communautaires à la recommandation : From texts to recommendation.
Degree: Docteur es, Informatique, 2011, Université d'Orléans
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2011ORLE2005
► La thèse concerne la transformation de données textuelles non structurées en données structurées et exploitables par des systèmes de recommandation. Deux grandes catégories d'informations sont…
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▼ La thèse concerne la transformation de données textuelles non structurées en données structurées et exploitables par des systèmes de recommandation. Deux grandes catégories d'informations sont utilisées dans le domaine des moteurs de recommandation : les données descriptives de contenus comme les méta-données ou les tags (filtrage thématique), et les données d'usages qui peuvent être des notes ou encore des pages Web visitées par exemple (filtrage collaboratif). D'autres données sont présentes sur le Web et ne sont pas encore réellement exploitées. Avec l'émergence du Web 2.0, les internautes sont de plus en plus amenés à partager leurs sentiments, opinions, expériences sur des produits, personnalités, films, musiques, etc. Les données textuelles produites par les utilisateurs représentent potentiellement des sources riches d'informations qui peuvent être complémentaires des données exploitées actuellement par les moteurs de recommandation et peuvent donc ouvrir de nouvelles voies d'études dans ce domaine en plein essor. Notre objectif dans le cadre de la thèse est de produire, à partir de commentaires issus de sites communautaires (blogs ou forums), des matrices d'entrées pertinentes pour les systèmes de recommandation. L'idée sous-jacente est de pouvoir enrichir un système pour un service débutant, qui possède encore peu d'utilisateurs propres, et donc peu de données d'usages, par des données issues d'autres utilisateurs. Nous faisons tout d'abord un état de l'art de la recommandation automatique. Nous présentons ensuite le moteur ainsi que les données utilisées pour les expérimentations. Le chapitre suivant décrit les premières expérimentations en mode thématique. Nous faisons ensuite un nouvel état de l'art sur la classification d'opinion. Pour finir, nous décrivons les expérimentations menées pour l'approche collaborative à l'aide de la classification d'opinion.
The thesis is about the transformation of unstructured textual data in structured data in order to be used by a recommender system. Recommender systems can operate on two main types of data: content descriptors as metadata or tags (content-based filtering), and usage data as rates or visited Web pages for example (collaborative filtering). Other data exist on the Web which are not used yet. With the emergence of the Web 2.0, users share their feelings, opinions, experiences on products, personalities, movies, music, etc. (through comments for example). This textual data generated by users potentially represent rich sources of information which can supplement data exploited by recommender systems. The exploitation of this kind of data could open new paths in this burgeoning field. Our objective in this thesis is to generate matrices relevant for recommender systems. The underlying idea is to enrich a system for a beginner service, which has still few own users, then too little usage data, by information on other users on the Web. The thesis begins with a state of the art of automatic recommendation. Then, we present the recommender systems and the…
Advisors/Committee Members: Tellier, Isabelle (thesis director), Gallinari, Patrick (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Classification d'opinion; Opinion classification
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Poirier, D. (2011). Des textes communautaires à la recommandation : From texts to recommendation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Université d'Orléans. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2011ORLE2005
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Poirier, Damien. “Des textes communautaires à la recommandation : From texts to recommendation.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, Université d'Orléans. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://www.theses.fr/2011ORLE2005.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Poirier, Damien. “Des textes communautaires à la recommandation : From texts to recommendation.” 2011. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Poirier D. Des textes communautaires à la recommandation : From texts to recommendation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Université d'Orléans; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2011ORLE2005.
Council of Science Editors:
Poirier D. Des textes communautaires à la recommandation : From texts to recommendation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Université d'Orléans; 2011. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2011ORLE2005
Boston University
10.
Klass, Bertrand.
The role of expectations in determining intrinsic job satisfaction.
Degree: PhD, Psychology, 1952, Boston University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/10788
► Morale has been defined as the sum of the satisfactions which the individual experiences because of his membership and involvement in an organization. Recently there…
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▼ Morale has been defined as the sum of the satisfactions which the individual experiences because of his membership and involvement in an organization. Recently there has been a movement away from the study of the global morale concept to the different types of satisfactions that individuals derive from the industrial situation. Intrinsic job satisfaction is defined by the degree of satisfaction obtained by the individual employee from performing those tasks which constitute the content of his job.
This study was concerned primarily with an investigation of the role of expectations as related to the extent of fulfillment of these expectations in determining intrinsic job satisfaction. Job importance, contribution made by doing the job, the work's relationship to the kind of work that public relations practitioners do, and statements as to how interesting or how uninteresting the work was,- were the major criteria used to structure expectations. Intrinsic job satisfaction was treated as the dependent variable. An attempt was also made to relate intrinsic job satisfaction levels to productivity levels. [TRUNCATED]
Subjects/Keywords: Opinion research
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Klass, B. (1952). The role of expectations in determining intrinsic job satisfaction. (Doctoral Dissertation). Boston University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2144/10788
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Klass, Bertrand. “The role of expectations in determining intrinsic job satisfaction.” 1952. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston University. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2144/10788.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Klass, Bertrand. “The role of expectations in determining intrinsic job satisfaction.” 1952. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Klass B. The role of expectations in determining intrinsic job satisfaction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston University; 1952. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/10788.
Council of Science Editors:
Klass B. The role of expectations in determining intrinsic job satisfaction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Boston University; 1952. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/10788
University of Ottawa
11.
Yan, Kai.
Opinion Dynamics and the Effect of Time-varying Opinions: A Simulation Study
.
Degree: 2015, University of Ottawa
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32959
► Opinion dynamics is extensively used in studying large-scale social, economical, political and natural phenomena that involve many interacting agents. It also can be used to…
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▼ Opinion dynamics is extensively used in studying large-scale social, economical, political and natural phenomena that involve many interacting agents. It also can be used to model the evolution of teams of autonomous vehicles operating in a coordinated fashion with civilian and military applications, when arbitration among individual goals needs to be negotiated. Recently, research was conducted on how opinion dynamics can be the core of collective decision-making mechanisms for swarm robotics. Opinion dynamics with a time varying opinion space, which is the set of all possible opinions an agent may have, is a relatively recent research topic.
In this work, the Deffuant-Weisbuch model (DW model), which allows to model opinion dynamics in shrinking opinion spaces, was applied. In simulating this class of systems and in extracting information from them it is crucial to establish reliable algorithms and criteria for counting the numbers of clusters, as this ultimately affects the determination of the steady state of the system. A method was applied to combine Fuzzy c-means clustering and subtractive clustering to check convergence of the system and avoid negative influence of outliers. Different scenarios are simulated to study the influence of characteristic parameters on the formation of opinions, which is quantified by the formation of clusters in the opinion space. Additionally, we simulate the scenario of a two dimensional opinion space in which one side shrinks, and evaluate how the rate of shrinking influences the steady state opinion space. This is a simplified model to gain some insight on the effect of extreme changes of opinions in multi-dimensional opinion space.
Subjects/Keywords: Opinion dynamics;
Time-varying
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Yan, K. (2015). Opinion Dynamics and the Effect of Time-varying Opinions: A Simulation Study
. (Thesis). University of Ottawa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32959
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Yan, Kai. “Opinion Dynamics and the Effect of Time-varying Opinions: A Simulation Study
.” 2015. Thesis, University of Ottawa. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32959.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Yan, Kai. “Opinion Dynamics and the Effect of Time-varying Opinions: A Simulation Study
.” 2015. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Yan K. Opinion Dynamics and the Effect of Time-varying Opinions: A Simulation Study
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32959.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Yan K. Opinion Dynamics and the Effect of Time-varying Opinions: A Simulation Study
. [Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32959
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Debrecen
12.
Kontér, Erik.
The Reception of American in Hungary Since 1989
.
Degree: DE – TEK – Bölcsészettudományi Kar, 2013, University of Debrecen
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/170342
► The relationship between America and Hungary has always been a rather important issue; however, its nature seems very much one-sided. We could possibly formulate it…
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▼ The relationship between America and Hungary has always been a rather important
issue; however, its nature seems very much one-sided. We could possibly formulate it this
way: This is an issue of high importance in our country, while nobody cares about it over
there in America. As it has been stated above, Hungarian history – or more precisely – the
political circumstances were the reasons for seeking a relationship with the United States,
hoping to find a ‘safe haven’ for help and support. However, the facts that our country is not
dependent on any power anymore and that the political circumstances are more or less calm
by now (id est. there is no such threat within the country as was, for example, in 1956),
caused people to think of America slightly different. Their attitude has changed recently and
the way Hungarians perceive America nowadays is quite different from how they did in the
past. Not the helpful patron is seen in her anymore, but rather the country of opportunities
with a different lifestyle and attitude to life – a place where people can have experiences and
can face a ‘New World’.
Advisors/Committee Members: Vida, István Kornél (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: America;
perception;
Hungarians;
opinion
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Kontér, E. (2013). The Reception of American in Hungary Since 1989
. (Thesis). University of Debrecen. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2437/170342
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kontér, Erik. “The Reception of American in Hungary Since 1989
.” 2013. Thesis, University of Debrecen. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2437/170342.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kontér, Erik. “The Reception of American in Hungary Since 1989
.” 2013. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Kontér E. The Reception of American in Hungary Since 1989
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/170342.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Kontér E. The Reception of American in Hungary Since 1989
. [Thesis]. University of Debrecen; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2437/170342
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco
13.
Idoiaga Mondragón, Nahia.
Social representations of emerging infectious diseases: from scientific knowledge to everyday thinking. The effect of the mass media
.
Degree: 2016, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10810/21757
► Esta Tesis doctoral, basada en la Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales (TRS), analiza el pensamiento cotidiano sobre las enfermedades infecciosas emergentes estudiando cómo se crea…
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▼ Esta Tesis doctoral, basada en la Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales (TRS), analiza el pensamiento cotidiano sobre las enfermedades infecciosas emergentes estudiando cómo se crea y desarrolla mediante la comunicación. Los estudios realizados analizan las representaciones sociales sobre dichas enfermedades durante seis años (desde la epidemia de gripe porcina de 2009, hasta la del ébola en 2015). En ese periodo se ha observado una transformación de las representaciones sociales sobre las enfermedades infecciosas emergentes, pero también patrones comunes. Hemos concluido que las enfermedades infecciosas emergentes son sucesos que crean profundas cicatrices en la sociedad, no sólo por su repercusión material o tangible, sino también por su repercusión simbólica, donde las emociones son especialmente subrayables. Además, esta Tesis trabaja en especial el papel de los medios de comunicación; reafirmando la utilidad de la TRS para investigar los medios y la de los medios para investigar las representaciones sociales. Las creencias que apuntaban a que las enfermedades infecciosas no iban a afectar más a la sociedad eran erróneas. Son amenazas que vamos a tener presentes una y otra vez en la sociedad de riesgo global en la que vivimos. Por lo tanto, es preciso saber cómo construimos dichas amenazas simbólicamente y cómo las integramos en el pensamiento cotidiano mediante sus representaciones sociales. Esta Tesis doctoral presenta algunas propuestas para explicar estos procesos, esperando que sirvan como herramientas ante futuras enfermedades infecciosas.
Advisors/Committee Members: Gil de Montes Echaide, María Lorena (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: public opinion;
opinión pública
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Idoiaga Mondragón, N. (2016). Social representations of emerging infectious diseases: from scientific knowledge to everyday thinking. The effect of the mass media
. (Doctoral Dissertation). Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10810/21757
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Idoiaga Mondragón, Nahia. “Social representations of emerging infectious diseases: from scientific knowledge to everyday thinking. The effect of the mass media
.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10810/21757.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Idoiaga Mondragón, Nahia. “Social representations of emerging infectious diseases: from scientific knowledge to everyday thinking. The effect of the mass media
.” 2016. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Idoiaga Mondragón N. Social representations of emerging infectious diseases: from scientific knowledge to everyday thinking. The effect of the mass media
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10810/21757.
Council of Science Editors:
Idoiaga Mondragón N. Social representations of emerging infectious diseases: from scientific knowledge to everyday thinking. The effect of the mass media
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10810/21757
Central Connecticut State University
14.
Green, Chad Christian, 1987-.
Citizen and Police Reporting of the Perceptions of Police Misconduct.
Degree: Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 2015, Central Connecticut State University
URL: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,2094
► This study assesses the perception of police misconduct from Connecticut residents' perspective as well as from the police officer perspective in Connecticut. The research is…
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▼ This study assesses the perception of police misconduct from Connecticut residents' perspective as well as from the police officer perspective in Connecticut. The research is unique from the standpoint that other studies have only reviewed one population or the other and here we are able to compare the differences of perception between Connecticut residents and police in regards to the topic of police misconduct. Additionally, the results examine demographics such as education, age, gender, ethnicity, race, and years of experience as a police officer. The results show there is no statistical difference in terms of the demographics mediating the perceptions of police misconduct neither for the citizens nor for the police. However, the comparison between police and citizens did show some interesting results. For instance, approximately 70 percent of the citizen respondents reported that they either disagreed or strongly disagreed with the statement that the media over reports police misconduct. Conversely, about 13 percent of the police respondents disagreed with that same statement. The findings contribute to the literature on police/citizen relations and makes recommendations on how to improve rapport. By examining perceptions of police misconduct, better policies and internal reviews for police departments may be created to reduce citizen complaints and create better relationships between police and Connecticut residents.
"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Science in Criminal Justice."; Thesis advisor: Julie Schnobrich-Davis.; M.S.,Central Connecticut State University,,2015.;
Advisors/Committee Members: Schnobrich-Davis, Julie.
Subjects/Keywords: Police misconduct – Public opinion.
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Green, Chad Christian, 1. (2015). Citizen and Police Reporting of the Perceptions of Police Misconduct. (Thesis). Central Connecticut State University. Retrieved from http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,2094
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Green, Chad Christian, 1987-. “Citizen and Police Reporting of the Perceptions of Police Misconduct.” 2015. Thesis, Central Connecticut State University. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,2094.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Green, Chad Christian, 1987-. “Citizen and Police Reporting of the Perceptions of Police Misconduct.” 2015. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Green, Chad Christian 1. Citizen and Police Reporting of the Perceptions of Police Misconduct. [Internet] [Thesis]. Central Connecticut State University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,2094.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Green, Chad Christian 1. Citizen and Police Reporting of the Perceptions of Police Misconduct. [Thesis]. Central Connecticut State University; 2015. Available from: http://content.library.ccsu.edu/u?/ccsutheses,2094
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
IUPUI
15.
Kouandi Angba, Joelle Marie.
Testing American public opinion on the work of the United Nations.
Degree: 2016, IUPUI
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1805/10831
► Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
What do Americans think about the United Nations? Social scientists have put forward an array of viewpoints on the subject,…
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▼ Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
What do Americans think about the United Nations? Social scientists have put forward an array of viewpoints on the subject, focusing on such things as partisan differences in the attitudes of Americans towards the work of the UN to public skepticism of the organization’s objectives and effectiveness. I argue, in this thesis, that public opinion is a causal factor because of its potential to influence political outcomes. For example, public opinion can influence the effectiveness of the UN’s work in three main ways: 1) It can serve as an instrument for establishing the credibility of the international body’s work and/ or in discrediting the system as a whole; 2) it can serve as a link between the US and the UN in encouraging support for the United Nations in one of its most important members; and 3) Public opinion can stress the importance of a particular issue and pressure influential actors to take action. I choose to focus solely on the United States in this thesis despite the UN’s 192 other member states for the reason that overwhelmingly negative assessments have been offered of the organization since the Iraq War. The research depicting this idea points to a decline in American popular support for the UN in the past decade. By investigating six different hypotheses which seek to explain this possible decline, I conclude that American public support for the international body after the Iraq war has declined and can best be explained by hypothesis 3 on inadequate coverage of UN matters in the media and hypothesis 5 on the thought that the UN is “ineffective;” although this presumed decline is not steady due to opinion level variations in the recent decade.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pegg, Scott, McCormick, John, Snodgrass, Michael David.
Subjects/Keywords: United Nations Public Opinion
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Kouandi Angba, J. M. (2016). Testing American public opinion on the work of the United Nations. (Thesis). IUPUI. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1805/10831
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Kouandi Angba, Joelle Marie. “Testing American public opinion on the work of the United Nations.” 2016. Thesis, IUPUI. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1805/10831.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kouandi Angba, Joelle Marie. “Testing American public opinion on the work of the United Nations.” 2016. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Kouandi Angba JM. Testing American public opinion on the work of the United Nations. [Internet] [Thesis]. IUPUI; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1805/10831.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Kouandi Angba JM. Testing American public opinion on the work of the United Nations. [Thesis]. IUPUI; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1805/10831
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University of Florida
16.
Srivastava, Utkarsh.
Comparison of Quality Management and Safety Management in United States of America Construction Industry and Indian Construction Industry.
Degree: M.S.C.M, Construction Management, 2019, University of Florida
URL: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0055920
► This study explains the comparison between India and United States of America (USA) based on the Quality Management and Safety Management followed in the construction…
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▼ This study explains the comparison between India and United States of America (USA) based on the Quality Management and Safety Management followed in the construction industry on the organization level as well as on the job site level. In present world, construction is one of the most important sectors which contributes towards the nations GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and hence it is essential to make sure that all the construction taking place is completed on time without any cost overrun and the final product is as per owners' requirements. This is where Quality and Safety plays an important role to meet owner demands.
Advisors/Committee Members: Flood,Ian (committee chair), Liu,Rui (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: opinion – perception – quality – safety – survey
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Srivastava, U. (2019). Comparison of Quality Management and Safety Management in United States of America Construction Industry and Indian Construction Industry. (Masters Thesis). University of Florida. Retrieved from https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0055920
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Srivastava, Utkarsh. “Comparison of Quality Management and Safety Management in United States of America Construction Industry and Indian Construction Industry.” 2019. Masters Thesis, University of Florida. Accessed April 14, 2021.
https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0055920.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Srivastava, Utkarsh. “Comparison of Quality Management and Safety Management in United States of America Construction Industry and Indian Construction Industry.” 2019. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Srivastava U. Comparison of Quality Management and Safety Management in United States of America Construction Industry and Indian Construction Industry. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Florida; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0055920.
Council of Science Editors:
Srivastava U. Comparison of Quality Management and Safety Management in United States of America Construction Industry and Indian Construction Industry. [Masters Thesis]. University of Florida; 2019. Available from: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0055920
University of Toronto
17.
Sealey, Anthony James Linsell.
New Old Politics? Explaining Popular Support for Redistributive Public Policies.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Toronto
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/89799
► The central argument advanced by the dissertation is that three key sources of variation are critical for understanding popular support for redistributive public policies. First,…
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▼ The central argument advanced by the dissertation is that three key sources of variation are critical for understanding popular support for redistributive public policies. First, redistribution is not a single undifferentiated policy goal. This dissertation distinguishes between ‘generalized’ and ‘targeted’ redistribution, and argues that critical determinants of citizens’ redistributive policy preferences play out differently depending on whether the redistribution is generalized or targeted in nature. Second, attitudes toward redistribution vary both across space and over time. The dissertation contends that many critical macrolevel determinants of citizens’ policy preferences illuminate how and why these variations occur. Third, in exceptional cases, specific political contexts matter. The dissertation maintains that while there is a range of common factors that influences popular support for redistribution throughout most advanced industrial democracies, in a limited number of cases, the citizens of distinct political contexts have substantially different orientations toward redistributive public policies.
The dissertation draws on both cross-national data from eighteen advanced industrial democracies as well as cross-provincial data from the Canadian case to evaluate hypotheses constructed from these theories. The empirical findings support the dissertation’s core hypotheses. The evidence suggests that those with higher income tend to be more opposed to generalized redistribution, whereas those with more right-wing economic beliefs are more inclined to oppose targeted redistribution. There is also clear support for the contention that cross-sectional and longitudinal variations in redistributive policy preferences are differently affected by changes in key macroeconomic factors. For instance, when comparing between states, higher levels of economic inequality tend to be linked to lower levels of support for redistribution, but as economic inequality within a state increases over time, support for redistribution also tends to increase. There is also substantial evidence that specific political contexts matter. For instance, Americans are much less likely to support targeted redistribution than the citizens of other advanced industrial democracies, whereas Quebecers are much more likely to support generalized redistribution than the residents of other Canadian provinces. And in the cases in which political context matters, these critical differences tend to be a result of differences in in these citizens’ values and beliefs.
Advisors/Committee Members: Vipond, Robert, Political Science.
Subjects/Keywords: Inequality; Public Opinion; Redistribution; 0615
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APA (6th Edition):
Sealey, A. J. L. (2018). New Old Politics? Explaining Popular Support for Redistributive Public Policies. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/89799
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Sealey, Anthony James Linsell. “New Old Politics? Explaining Popular Support for Redistributive Public Policies.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Toronto. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/89799.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sealey, Anthony James Linsell. “New Old Politics? Explaining Popular Support for Redistributive Public Policies.” 2018. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Sealey AJL. New Old Politics? Explaining Popular Support for Redistributive Public Policies. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/89799.
Council of Science Editors:
Sealey AJL. New Old Politics? Explaining Popular Support for Redistributive Public Policies. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Toronto; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/89799
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
18.
Chen, Xiangyu.
Modeling trustworthy opinion using an uncertainty-aware approach.
Degree: MS, Computer Science, 2016, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/90794
► In this era of information explosion, conflicts are often encountered when information is provided by multiple sources. Traditional truth discovery task aims to identify the…
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▼ In this era of information explosion, conflicts are often encountered when information is provided by multiple sources. Traditional truth discovery task aims to identify the truth – the most trustworthy information, from conflicting sources in different scenarios. In this kind of tasks, truth is regarded as a fixed value or a set of fixed values. However, in a number of real-world cases, objective truth existence cannot be ensured and we can only identify single or multiple reliable facts from opinions. Different from traditional truth discovery task, we address this uncertainty and introduce the concept of trustworthy
opinion of an entity, treat it as a random variable, and use its distribution to describe consistency or controversy, which is particularly difficult for data which can be numerically or categorically measured. In this study, we propose a Trustworthy
Opinion Model (TOM) to model its controversy and consistency, which focusing on both quantitative and categorical
opinion. The model uses a Kernel Density Estimation based uncertainty-aware approach to estimate its probability distribution, and summarize trustworthy information based on this distribution. Experiments indicate that TOM not only has outstanding performance on the classical numeric truth discovery task, but also shows good performance on multi-modality detection and anomaly detection in the uncertain-
opinion setting.
Advisors/Committee Members: Han, Jiawei (advisor), Rosenbaum, Elyse (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: trustworthy opinion; truth discovery
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Chen, X. (2016). Modeling trustworthy opinion using an uncertainty-aware approach. (Thesis). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/90794
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Chen, Xiangyu. “Modeling trustworthy opinion using an uncertainty-aware approach.” 2016. Thesis, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/90794.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Chen, Xiangyu. “Modeling trustworthy opinion using an uncertainty-aware approach.” 2016. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Chen X. Modeling trustworthy opinion using an uncertainty-aware approach. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/90794.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Chen X. Modeling trustworthy opinion using an uncertainty-aware approach. [Thesis]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/90794
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Louisiana State University
19.
Zhang, Yiwei.
The Spiral of Silence in Virtual Space: Examining How Expert Participation, Digital Media Form, and Opinion Congruency Relate to Opinion Expression.
Degree: MMC, Mass Communication, 2015, Louisiana State University
URL: etd-05232015-003120
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https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4175
► This study tested the spiral of silence in both Social Networking Sites (SNS) and online discussion forums. It argued that online expert participation may influence…
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▼ This study tested the spiral of silence in both Social Networking Sites (SNS) and online discussion forums. It argued that online expert participation may influence people's willingness to take part in an online discussion. A two (opinion climate) by two (expert participation) experiment was designed to examine how expert participation influenced the relationship between people’s willingness to speak out and opinion climate with the controversial topic: abortion. In this study, the spiral of silence effect was only found when experts were present in the discussion.
Subjects/Keywords: audience composition; opinion climate; Twitter
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Zhang, Y. (2015). The Spiral of Silence in Virtual Space: Examining How Expert Participation, Digital Media Form, and Opinion Congruency Relate to Opinion Expression. (Masters Thesis). Louisiana State University. Retrieved from etd-05232015-003120 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4175
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zhang, Yiwei. “The Spiral of Silence in Virtual Space: Examining How Expert Participation, Digital Media Form, and Opinion Congruency Relate to Opinion Expression.” 2015. Masters Thesis, Louisiana State University. Accessed April 14, 2021.
etd-05232015-003120 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4175.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zhang, Yiwei. “The Spiral of Silence in Virtual Space: Examining How Expert Participation, Digital Media Form, and Opinion Congruency Relate to Opinion Expression.” 2015. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Zhang Y. The Spiral of Silence in Virtual Space: Examining How Expert Participation, Digital Media Form, and Opinion Congruency Relate to Opinion Expression. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Louisiana State University; 2015. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: etd-05232015-003120 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4175.
Council of Science Editors:
Zhang Y. The Spiral of Silence in Virtual Space: Examining How Expert Participation, Digital Media Form, and Opinion Congruency Relate to Opinion Expression. [Masters Thesis]. Louisiana State University; 2015. Available from: etd-05232015-003120 ; https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_theses/4175
California State University – Sacramento
20.
Brunson, Kimberly Carol.
Permission to color.
Degree: MA, English (Creative Writing, 2011, California State University – Sacramento
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1245
► This thesis is a collection of poems, which explores the development of the author???s poetic process in three parts. Part one, Memory, focuses mostly on…
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▼ This thesis is a collection of poems, which explores the development of the author???s poetic process in three parts. Part one, Memory, focuses mostly on both the ideas of memories and experiences as well as actual memories and experiences lived by the poet. Part two, Dream, explores the abstract aspects of poetry. Part three,
Opinion, is an amalgamation of dreams, rants and experiences liberally laced with strong viewpoints.
Advisors/Committee Members: McKinney, Joshua.
Subjects/Keywords: Poetry; Photography; Memory; Dream; Opinion
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Brunson, K. C. (2011). Permission to color. (Masters Thesis). California State University – Sacramento. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1245
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Brunson, Kimberly Carol. “Permission to color.” 2011. Masters Thesis, California State University – Sacramento. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1245.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Brunson, Kimberly Carol. “Permission to color.” 2011. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Brunson KC. Permission to color. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. California State University – Sacramento; 2011. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1245.
Council of Science Editors:
Brunson KC. Permission to color. [Masters Thesis]. California State University – Sacramento; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1245
Massey University
21.
Bourke, Sheryl Rose.
Perspectives on poverty.
Degree: PhD, Social Policy, 2013, Massey University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10179/4695
► The idea that there is poverty experienced in countries that have an abundance of natural resources and accumulated wealth has attracted much public discussion in…
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▼ The idea that there is poverty experienced in countries that have an abundance of natural resources and accumulated wealth has attracted much public discussion in recent times. This thesis examines the perspectives on poverty of thirty-seven people living in New Zealand communities and situates these perspectives in a wider academic and public discussion. By examining these perspectives a gap in the research on poverty is addressed by taking into account the views and opinions of New Zealanders and relating these perspectives to broader governing processes. The main research strategy is a discourse analysis of thirty seven semi-structured participant interviews. The time period covered in the review of New Zealand literature and public discussion on poverty is from 1972 to the time of the commencement of the interviews in 2008. By employing a Foucauldian theoretical framework drawing on governmentality, the findings from the discourse analysis of thirty-seven participant interviews are explicated and situated within wider social and governing practices. This study highlights a general level of social distancing and “othering” directed at situations described as poverty and how social welfare beneficiaries become the main target for people’s concerns about poverty. Of key interest was the tendency of the participants to spontaneously racialise and define poverty using non-material terminology. As this thesis looks at the implications of a governmentality involved in the development of a self-managing population, it draws attention to the processes of responsibilisation in place for those defined as “poor” in the context of social welfare provision.
Subjects/Keywords: Poverty;
Public opinion;
New Zealand
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Bourke, S. R. (2013). Perspectives on poverty. (Doctoral Dissertation). Massey University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10179/4695
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bourke, Sheryl Rose. “Perspectives on poverty.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Massey University. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10179/4695.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bourke, Sheryl Rose. “Perspectives on poverty.” 2013. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Bourke SR. Perspectives on poverty. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Massey University; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10179/4695.
Council of Science Editors:
Bourke SR. Perspectives on poverty. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Massey University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10179/4695
University of Sydney
22.
Hurley, Erin Elizabeth.
The Influence of the Justification for the Use of Force on Support for War Over Time
.
Degree: 2016, University of Sydney
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16691
► In recent history, political analysts have frequently referred to the American public as war weary, but the characterization is imprecise and largely untested. One way…
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▼ In recent history, political analysts have frequently referred to the American public as war weary, but the characterization is imprecise and largely untested. One way to think about war weariness is to consider the justification for the war and its congruence or incongruence with the progress of the war. Scholarship concerned with the justification for war is generally focused on support levels at initiation, which are important in terms of establishing a baseline, but does not provide insight into the process by which the public becomes weary of war. Opinion over time is likely to reflect some combination of elite messaging and wartime events, but the onset of war weariness signals a diminished influence for elite messaging. I address the following research questions: To what extent, and how, does the justification for the use of force (or war’s purpose) influence the American public’s wartime attitudes? Under what conditions do events take precedence over elite messaging in shaping perceptions and preferences? How do shifting perceptions of purpose and progress contribute to the likelihood of disapproval over time? I challenge two theoretical perspectives: 1) the application of partisan elite cue theory to understanding wartime opinion, and 2) the constancy and political relevance of expectations regarding the public’s preference for wars of foreign policy restraint. I address my research questions through a comparative analysis of perceptions and preferences associated with the Gulf War and the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This analysis includes a qualitative and a quantitative component. I found that the public’s preference for foreign policy restraint (FPR) was evident in most responses to relevant questions across wars and at different times within each war. However, a majority of the public was also willing to support other mission types. Contrary to existing theory, I found that while the public maintained reasonable concerns about the costs and risks associated with the postwar period, support for FPR missions matched support for stabilization and rebuilding missions. Further, the influence of the war’s purpose on general support levels declines over time. I found strong evidence that the public was attentive and responsive to wartime events, and that the influence of elite cues on wartime opinion was bounded by those events. My analysis supports the plausibility of nuanced thinking, and suggests a level of cognitive complexity during wartime that would not be predicted by elite cue theory.
Subjects/Keywords: Public opinion;
War;
Iraq
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Hurley, E. E. (2016). The Influence of the Justification for the Use of Force on Support for War Over Time
. (Thesis). University of Sydney. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16691
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Hurley, Erin Elizabeth. “The Influence of the Justification for the Use of Force on Support for War Over Time
.” 2016. Thesis, University of Sydney. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16691.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Hurley, Erin Elizabeth. “The Influence of the Justification for the Use of Force on Support for War Over Time
.” 2016. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Hurley EE. The Influence of the Justification for the Use of Force on Support for War Over Time
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Sydney; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16691.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Hurley EE. The Influence of the Justification for the Use of Force on Support for War Over Time
. [Thesis]. University of Sydney; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16691
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Sydney
23.
Stitt, Ross William.
Public preferences: their influence through elections on the policy positions of incoming Australian federal governments
.
Degree: 2016, University of Sydney
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16050
► This thesis sits within the broad topic of the relationship between public preferences and government policy. Its specific ambit is the influence, through elections, of…
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▼ This thesis sits within the broad topic of the relationship between public preferences and government policy. Its specific ambit is the influence, through elections, of majority public preferences on the policy platforms of incoming federal governments in Australia. It constructs a synthesis of each of the two key branches of theory that seek to explain the preferences-to-platform link: both parties in a two-party system deliberately adopting public preference-consistent positions in order to win electoral support, and voters electing a government on the basis of its public preference-consistent positions. By revealing the core underlying assumptions of the theories, this analysis facilitates an understanding of the contours of the debate and points the way to an empirical research strategy. Using a database generated from a comprehensive review of opinion polls and surveys in the periods leading up to the 2001-2013 federal elections, the thesis builds from calculating the level of public preference-holding, to placing public preferences in ideological space, measuring their congruence with incoming government policy platforms, and then examining the causal relationship between them. The research reveals significant preferences-to-platform incongruence and indicates that little congruence is attributable to the parties deliberately adopting public preference-consistent positions and even less to the public voting on the basis of its preferences. The parties are rarely motivated to deliberately follow public preferences and have many constraints on doing so. However, public preferences exercise a passive influence by curbing the parties’ policymaking. The public is offered limited policy alternatives, and many voters have minimal knowledge of those alternatives or do not policy vote. The additional contributions of the thesis are the synthesis of the theories, the formulation of an analytical framework, and the creation of the public preferences database.
Subjects/Keywords: Public;
Opinion;
Preferences;
Government;
Policy
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Stitt, R. W. (2016). Public preferences: their influence through elections on the policy positions of incoming Australian federal governments
. (Thesis). University of Sydney. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16050
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Stitt, Ross William. “Public preferences: their influence through elections on the policy positions of incoming Australian federal governments
.” 2016. Thesis, University of Sydney. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16050.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Stitt, Ross William. “Public preferences: their influence through elections on the policy positions of incoming Australian federal governments
.” 2016. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Stitt RW. Public preferences: their influence through elections on the policy positions of incoming Australian federal governments
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Sydney; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16050.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Stitt RW. Public preferences: their influence through elections on the policy positions of incoming Australian federal governments
. [Thesis]. University of Sydney; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16050
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Texas – Austin
24.
-2909-4760.
Public opinion, partisanship, and public policy.
Degree: PhD, Government, 2019, University of Texas – Austin
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/2210
► What is the relationship between public opinion and public policy? This question is at the heart of representative democracy. This dissertation attempts to enhance our…
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▼ What is the relationship between public
opinion and public policy? This question is at the heart of representative democracy. This dissertation attempts to enhance our understanding of the role that partisanship plays in the
opinion-policy process. We proceed in four steps. First, section 1 situates the analyses that follow in the current literature. Section 2 uses data on spending preferences to estimate general spending preferences of individuals and congressional candidates in a shared dimension. The approach employed allows for direct comparison between those two groups, and between the groups and where they perceive policy to be. Section 3 investigates whether partisans respond to policy changes similarly. Findings indicate that partisans react differently to policy change in issue areas with relatively large disagreement. Finally, Section 4 flips the equation and considers policy as the dependent variable. Are partisans more likely to get their preferred policies when they control the White House? The answer, it seems, is yes. Policy responds primarily to partisans of the same party as the president.
Advisors/Committee Members: Wlezien, Christopher (advisor), Albertson, Bethany (committee member), Jessee, Stephen (committee member), Soroka, Stuart (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Public opinion; Public policy; Partisanship
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-2909-4760. (2019). Public opinion, partisanship, and public policy. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Texas – Austin. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/2210
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-2909-4760. “Public opinion, partisanship, and public policy.” 2019. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Texas – Austin. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/2210.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Author name may be incomplete
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
-2909-4760. “Public opinion, partisanship, and public policy.” 2019. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Author name may be incomplete
Vancouver:
-2909-4760. Public opinion, partisanship, and public policy. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2019. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/2210.
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Author name may be incomplete
Council of Science Editors:
-2909-4760. Public opinion, partisanship, and public policy. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Texas – Austin; 2019. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/2210
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Author name may be incomplete
University of Oklahoma
25.
Moore, Jonathan.
Conservatism and Immigration Opinion in the United States.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Oklahoma
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/299809
► The popular and academic consensus on the substance of conservative opinion on immigration is that it is universally and overwhelmingly in favor of restrictive policy,…
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▼ The popular and academic consensus on the substance of conservative
opinion on immigration is that it is universally and overwhelmingly in favor of restrictive policy, but the existence of pro-immigration figures such as George W. Bush and Ronald Reagan is one reason among many to doubt the predictive accuracy of this stereotype. I argue that part of this phenomenon can be explained by understanding the diversity of thought underlying modern conservative ideology, and that by focusing more on these values and less on big tent conservatism, better predictions can be achieved. This dissertation seeks to empirically examine the substance of conservative
opinion on immigration at the mass, engaged, and elite levels, and to compare these results at every stage against the popular stereotype of these opinions. The dissertation features a three-part research design including large-n regression analysis of existing survey data for the mass level, original survey research for the engaged level, and qualitative interviews at the elite level. The results of my empirical analyses suggest that while conservatism and conservative values generally do correlate with more restrictive opinions on immigration, some conservative values like limited government are frequently associated with liberalized attitudes towards immigration. This suggests that the literature’s current dismissal of ideological values as an variable useful in explaining immigration
opinion comes from measurement error (focusing on big tent ideologies like liberalism and conservatism rather than smaller component values like adherence to limited government and moral traditionalism) rather than a true insignificance of ideology itself as a useful explanatory variable in this context.
Advisors/Committee Members: Krutz, Glen (advisor), Shortle, Allyson (committee member), Lamothe, Scott (committee member), Fryar, Alisa (committee member), Edy, Jill (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Public Opinion; Immigration; Conservatism; Ideology
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Moore, J. (2018). Conservatism and Immigration Opinion in the United States. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oklahoma. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11244/299809
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Moore, Jonathan. “Conservatism and Immigration Opinion in the United States.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oklahoma. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11244/299809.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Moore, Jonathan. “Conservatism and Immigration Opinion in the United States.” 2018. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Moore J. Conservatism and Immigration Opinion in the United States. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oklahoma; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/299809.
Council of Science Editors:
Moore J. Conservatism and Immigration Opinion in the United States. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oklahoma; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/299809
University of Oxford
26.
Klu, Joyce Kafui.
Opinion formation in dynamic social networks.
Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Oxford
URL: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6418f526-5cda-41a2-9eb5-842ab40ca5f2
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https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729216
► Opinion dynamics in a society of interacting agents may lead to consensus or to the coexistence of different opinions. The interplay between social network change…
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▼ Opinion dynamics in a society of interacting agents may lead to consensus or to the coexistence of different opinions. The interplay between social network change and opinion formation is complex, because the agents, their social interactions and the changing social structure over time, are themselves complex. DeGroot proposed a prescriptive model for achieving consensus, where agents revise their opinions at each time step by taking a weighted average of the opinions of neighbours. This thesis contains three main contributions. First, we introduce a generalisation of the DeGroot model and examine the long-time behaviour of the model, with and without insistent agents. Second, we consider opinion formation on networks which are themselves dynamic, where the dynamics may be completely random or based on homophily and triadic closure. The weights that agents place on the opinions of neighbours are also dynamic, based on a rule where weights decrease with increased difference in opinions. Third, we examine the effect of a sudden, temporary or permanent shift in the opinions of some agents. Two dynamics are considered for the network change over time; random switching (RS) network dynamics, and homophily and triadic closure (HT) network dynamics. We prove that the RS network dynamics enhances consensus formation and network connectivity, compared to the HT network dynamics where we show by simulation that different opinions can persist. We investigate the in uence of the presence of a minority of insistent agents and prove that for a connected static network, insistent agents with the same opinion in uence the final opinions to converge to their own opinion, thus leading to consensus. In contrast, lack of consensus persists when insistent agents have different opinions. This conclusion also holds for the RS network dynamics model. However, for the HT network dynamics model, coexistence of different opinions can persist even when insistent agents have the same opinion. This finding regarding the HT dynamics is of particular interest as it relates to observations in the real-world. We also investigate the in uence of a sudden shift in the opinions of some agents on the outcome of final opinions. The case of either a temporary shift in opinions or a permanent shift in opinions is examined. Additionally, the in uence of the time of the introduction of a shift, the number and the network positions of initial recipients of the shift in opinions is investigated. The overall effect of an opinion shift is measured by its in uence on the stabilisation time of the final opinions.
Subjects/Keywords: 302.30285; Opinion formation; Social networks
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Klu, J. K. (2017). Opinion formation in dynamic social networks. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Oxford. Retrieved from http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6418f526-5cda-41a2-9eb5-842ab40ca5f2 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729216
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Klu, Joyce Kafui. “Opinion formation in dynamic social networks.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Oxford. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6418f526-5cda-41a2-9eb5-842ab40ca5f2 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729216.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Klu, Joyce Kafui. “Opinion formation in dynamic social networks.” 2017. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Klu JK. Opinion formation in dynamic social networks. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6418f526-5cda-41a2-9eb5-842ab40ca5f2 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729216.
Council of Science Editors:
Klu JK. Opinion formation in dynamic social networks. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Oxford; 2017. Available from: http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6418f526-5cda-41a2-9eb5-842ab40ca5f2 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.729216
University of Aberdeen
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Ibeke, Emmanuel Ebuka.
Computational models for contrastive opinion mining and aspect extraction.
Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Aberdeen
URL: https://abdn.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/delivery/44ABE_INST/12152720130005941
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► With the growing popularity and availability of opinion-rich resources such as social media platforms and networks, new opportunities arise as people can now share their…
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▼ With the growing popularity and availability of opinion-rich resources such as social media platforms and networks, new opportunities arise as people can now share their opinions and also seek or understand the opinion of others about a specific topic or event. This growth has fuelled interest in opinion mining which seeks to understand opinions, attitudes, judgements and evaluations with respect to an entity or its aspects. The proliferation of reviews, ratings and online expressions have turned into a valuable asset to businesses seeking to manage their reputation, market their products, or identify new opportunities through opinion analysis. On the side of consumers, opinion mining serves as an information source that can support decision making. In this research, we focus on some fundamental challenges in opinion mining and make three contributions. First, we develop a curated corpus for training and evaluating opinion mining models. This corpus annotates sentiment and topic information at both sentence and review levels. It also captures the sentiment and topic time-variance information of the reviews. We demonstrate through experiments that this dataset supports opinion mining tasks such as contrastive opinion mining, and joint sentence and document level sentiment and topic analysis. As the corpus has a time-variance characteristic, it could also support studies in sentiment/topic dynamic analysis. Second, we propose a model for mining contrastive opinion from textual data (contraLDA). Unlike existing models that require input data to be separated into different collections beforehand, contraLDA models contrastive opinion from both single and multiple text collections. The model can also be flexibly trained in weakly-supervised and fully-supervised settings. In addition, the contraLDA model not only mines contrastive opinion but also quantifies the strength of opinion contrastiveness towards the topic of interest. The contraLDA model extracts relevant sentences related to the topics, making sentiment-bearing topics more interpretable. Third, we present an aspect extraction method which integrates a Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithm and word embedding model to identify implicit and explicit aspect expressions from texts. Unlike existing systems, the proposed approach also maps aspect expressions to their corresponding aspect categories. This process allows easy identification of sentences about different aspects of a product. We demonstrate that this unsupervised approach is comparable to state-of-the-art models.
Subjects/Keywords: 004; Public opinion; Data mining
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Ibeke, E. E. (2018). Computational models for contrastive opinion mining and aspect extraction. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Aberdeen. Retrieved from https://abdn.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/delivery/44ABE_INST/12152720130005941 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752674
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ibeke, Emmanuel Ebuka. “Computational models for contrastive opinion mining and aspect extraction.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Aberdeen. Accessed April 14, 2021.
https://abdn.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/delivery/44ABE_INST/12152720130005941 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752674.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ibeke, Emmanuel Ebuka. “Computational models for contrastive opinion mining and aspect extraction.” 2018. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Ibeke EE. Computational models for contrastive opinion mining and aspect extraction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Aberdeen; 2018. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: https://abdn.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/delivery/44ABE_INST/12152720130005941 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752674.
Council of Science Editors:
Ibeke EE. Computational models for contrastive opinion mining and aspect extraction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Aberdeen; 2018. Available from: https://abdn.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/delivery/44ABE_INST/12152720130005941 ; https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.752674
Rutgers University
28.
Bastug, Mehmet Fatih, 1984-.
A cross-national study of the relationships among the risk factors for radicalization: perceived islamophobia, identity crisis, and poor integration.
Degree: PhD, Global Affairs, 2016, Rutgers University
URL: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/50506/
► Existing literature on radicalization leading to violent extremism covers a wide range of issues and areas of concern, including theories and models of radicalization and…
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▼ Existing literature on radicalization leading to violent extremism covers a wide range of issues and areas of concern, including theories and models of radicalization and the radicalization process, as well as triggers, catalysts, and risk factors for the emergence of radicalization. Scholars have identified various risk factors that influence the likelihood of violent radicalization. However, a review of literature on radicalization reveals that there is a lack of thorough analysis of how major risk factors relate to each other. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between major risk factors for radicalization by combining them in a single model. Three risk factors were selected for this study: perceived Islamophobia, poor integration, and identity crisis. These risk factors are critical for understanding the early stages of the radicalization process of Muslim individuals who live in Western societies. This study utilized a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design, employing both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Data was collected using a survey of 180 Turkish-Americans and 118 Turkish-Canadians and interviews with 10 opinion leaders. The researcher proposed four hypotheses to investigate the relationships between the three aforementioned risk factors and used Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to test these hypotheses. The results showed that both perceived Islamophobia and poor integration were predictors of identity crisis in both samples. No significant relationship was observed between perceived Islamophobia and poor integration. The results also revealed some differences between the two samples. Perceived Islamophobia was significantly higher for the sample of Turkish-Americans. Additionally, higher perceived Islamophobia among Turkish-Americans predicted weaker identification with the host country. On the other hand, stronger religious identification among Turkish-Canadians predicted lower levels of integration. It is necessary to emphasize that this study did not explore whether the participants did or did not adopt radical ideologies. Rather, the researcher focused on the relationships among the risk factors that might make Muslim minorities more vulnerable to radicalization. The study concluded that it is important to take measures to counter Islamophobia and to facilitate the integration of Muslim minorities in order to lessen the likelihood that they will experience an identity crisis.
Advisors/Committee Members: Samuels, Norman (chair).
Subjects/Keywords: Radicalism; Islam – Public opinion; Islamophobia
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Bastug, Mehmet Fatih, 1. (2016). A cross-national study of the relationships among the risk factors for radicalization: perceived islamophobia, identity crisis, and poor integration. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rutgers University. Retrieved from https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/50506/
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bastug, Mehmet Fatih, 1984-. “A cross-national study of the relationships among the risk factors for radicalization: perceived islamophobia, identity crisis, and poor integration.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Rutgers University. Accessed April 14, 2021.
https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/50506/.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bastug, Mehmet Fatih, 1984-. “A cross-national study of the relationships among the risk factors for radicalization: perceived islamophobia, identity crisis, and poor integration.” 2016. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Bastug, Mehmet Fatih 1. A cross-national study of the relationships among the risk factors for radicalization: perceived islamophobia, identity crisis, and poor integration. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2016. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/50506/.
Council of Science Editors:
Bastug, Mehmet Fatih 1. A cross-national study of the relationships among the risk factors for radicalization: perceived islamophobia, identity crisis, and poor integration. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rutgers University; 2016. Available from: https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/50506/
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Lefebvre, Virginie.
La justice illustrée. : La justice dans les journaux illustrés de la troisième République (1890-1914) : Illustrated justice. : Justice in the illustrated newspapers of the Third Republic (1890-1914).
Degree: Docteur es, Histoire du droit et des institutions, 2017, Université Lille II – Droit et Santé
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL20006
► Fondée sur l’idée que l’image constitue un enjeu fondamental pour la justice, comme en témoigne l’ensemble des représentations iconographiques, des symboles et des rituels dont…
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▼ Fondée sur l’idée que l’image constitue un enjeu fondamental pour la justice, comme en témoigne l’ensemble des représentations iconographiques, des symboles et des rituels dont l’institution judiciaire s’entoure, cette étude en histoire du droit s’intéresse au discours véhiculé par les gravures des journaux d’informations illustrés de la Troisième République sur le droit et la justice. Dans une approche interdisciplinaire, empruntant à l’histoire des représentations collectives, à la sociologie et à l’histoire du droit, elle interroge le rapport entre les gravures des journaux illustrés et les réalités judiciaires de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle. Elle pose également la question de la réception de ces images dans l’opinion publique et de son influence sur le processus judiciaire et législatif. Ce travail de recherche s’appuie sur l’analyse sémiologique et contextuelle des illustrations et sur leur confrontation avec des sources judiciaires, doctrinales et législatives. Il met en évidence la dimension argumentative et idéologique des images de presse ainsi que leur pouvoir sur l’opinion publique, les tribunaux et le législateur. De manière plus générale, cette thèse entend montrer que l’étude des représentations iconographiques, même officieuses, de la justice enrichit la connaissance de l’histoire du droit et de la justice.
Based on the idea that images play a fundamental role for justice, as shown by all the iconographic representations, the symbols and the rituals used by the judiciary institution, this study in history of law focuses on the discourse conveyed by the prints of the illustrated newspapers of the Third Republic about law and justice. In an interdisciplinary approach, borrowing from the history of collective representations, from sociology and from the history of law, it questions the connection between the prints of the illustrated newspapers and the judiciary realities of the end of the 19th century and of the beginning of the 20th century.It also raises the question of the reception of these images among the general public and its influence on the judiciary and legislative process. It brings into light the argumentative and ideological dimension of press images as well as their power on the public opinion, on courts and on the legislator. More generally, this thesis aims to demonstrate that the study of iconographic representations of justice, even unofficial, enriches the knowledge of the history of law and justice.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dauchy, Serge (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Iconographie; Presse; Opinion publique; Iconography; Press; Public opinion
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Lefebvre, V. (2017). La justice illustrée. : La justice dans les journaux illustrés de la troisième République (1890-1914) : Illustrated justice. : Justice in the illustrated newspapers of the Third Republic (1890-1914). (Doctoral Dissertation). Université Lille II – Droit et Santé. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL20006
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lefebvre, Virginie. “La justice illustrée. : La justice dans les journaux illustrés de la troisième République (1890-1914) : Illustrated justice. : Justice in the illustrated newspapers of the Third Republic (1890-1914).” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Université Lille II – Droit et Santé. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL20006.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lefebvre, Virginie. “La justice illustrée. : La justice dans les journaux illustrés de la troisième République (1890-1914) : Illustrated justice. : Justice in the illustrated newspapers of the Third Republic (1890-1914).” 2017. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Lefebvre V. La justice illustrée. : La justice dans les journaux illustrés de la troisième République (1890-1914) : Illustrated justice. : Justice in the illustrated newspapers of the Third Republic (1890-1914). [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Université Lille II – Droit et Santé 2017. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL20006.
Council of Science Editors:
Lefebvre V. La justice illustrée. : La justice dans les journaux illustrés de la troisième République (1890-1914) : Illustrated justice. : Justice in the illustrated newspapers of the Third Republic (1890-1914). [Doctoral Dissertation]. Université Lille II – Droit et Santé 2017. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL20006
University of Johannesburg
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Du Plessis, Soretha.
A survey to determine the attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine by users in Cape Town.
Degree: 2013, University of Johannesburg
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8322
► M.Tech. (Homoeopathy)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) are interventions that are used in place of or alongside conventional medication; it has been described as “complementing…
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▼ M.Tech. (Homoeopathy)
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) are interventions that are used in place of or alongside conventional medication; it has been described as “complementing mainstream medicine by contributing to the common whole” (Ernst, 2000). The use of CAM is on the increase worldwide, with a prevalence of 30% to 50% recorded in industrialized countries in 1998 (Astin et al., 1998). People are increasingly consulting CAM practitioners and are also doing their own research on CAM products as well as self-medicating by purchasing products that are freely available from health shops and pharmacies. Trends seem to emerge in the type of people who seek out these modalities and people who do use CAM modalities seem to have favourable results. This study was formulated to give insight into the perceptions of CAM users in Cape Town regarding CAM use. The information obtained can be used to get a better understanding about CAM users themselves and their attitudes toward CAM in order for better education of the public on CAM and marketing of CAM professions in the future. Worldwide studies have been done on the prevalence of CAM use, and in South Africa, only one done so far in Chatsworth (Durban)(Singh et al., 2004). In South Africa, the Allied Health Professions Council (AHPCSA) registers and regulates 11 CAM professions, namely Homeopathy, Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chiropractic, Naturopathy, Osteopathy, Phytotherapy, Therapeutic Aromatherapy, Therapeutic Massage, Therapeutic Reflexology and Unani-Tibb. Even though the practitioners are regulated, some CAM products are freely available in retail outlets. The aim of this study is to determine the attitudes towards Complementary and Alternative Medicine by users in Cape Town, evaluated by means of a survey. This study was conducted by means of a survey; 200 questionnaires were distributed to 10 different health shops in Cape Town. Participants completed the questionnaires privately on the premises and handed them to the staff at the health shops.Completed questionnaires were placed in sealed envelopes and collected by the researcher on completion of the study. Out of the 200 questionnaires that were distributed, 183 were completed and results were analyzed by STATKON.
Subjects/Keywords: Complementary medicine - Public opinion; Alternative medicine - Public opinion
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Du Plessis, S. (2013). A survey to determine the attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine by users in Cape Town. (Thesis). University of Johannesburg. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8322
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Du Plessis, Soretha. “A survey to determine the attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine by users in Cape Town.” 2013. Thesis, University of Johannesburg. Accessed April 14, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8322.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Du Plessis, Soretha. “A survey to determine the attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine by users in Cape Town.” 2013. Web. 14 Apr 2021.
Vancouver:
Du Plessis S. A survey to determine the attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine by users in Cape Town. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Johannesburg; 2013. [cited 2021 Apr 14].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8322.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Du Plessis S. A survey to determine the attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicine by users in Cape Town. [Thesis]. University of Johannesburg; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/8322
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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