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Christopher N Lawrence
Middle Georgia State University, Political Science, Faculty Member
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, American Politics, Research Methods and Methodology, Computing In Social Sciences, Arts And Humanities, Professions, and 19 morePolitical Behavior, Public Opinion, British Politics, Structural Equation Modeling, Survey Methodology, Electoral Behavior, Voting Behavior, Canadian Politics, Social Statistics, Quantitative Methods (Political Science), Quantitative Methods (Sociology), Western Europe, Congress (American Politics), Economic Voting, Political Knowledge, Race-Of-Interviewer Effects, Research Methodology, Open Source Software, and Open Educational Resources (OER)edit
- Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair, Department of Political Scienceedit
It is well established in the literature that younger voters (age 18-24) turn out in far fewer numbers than their older counterparts. Some scholars have attributed this fact to theories of life transitions and/or barriers to registration.... more
It is well established in the literature that younger voters (age 18-24) turn out in far fewer numbers than their older counterparts. Some scholars have attributed this fact to theories of life transitions and/or barriers to registration. In this paper, we examine these arguments focusing on the failure of political socialization as the primary culprit. Many hoped that initiatives such
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It is well established in the literature that younger voters (age 18-24) turn out in far fewer numbers than their older counterparts. Some scholars have attributed this fact to theories of life transitions and/or barriers to registration.... more
It is well established in the literature that younger voters (age 18-24) turn out in far fewer numbers than their older counterparts. Some scholars have attributed this fact to theories of life transitions and/or barriers to registration. In this paper, we examine these arguments focusing on the failure of political socialization as the primary culprit. Many hoped that initiatives such
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Page 1. http://prq.sagepub.com/ Political Research Quarterly http://prq.sagepub.com/content/ 60/1/159 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/1065912906298636 2007 60: 159 Political Research Quarterly Christopher... more
Page 1. http://prq.sagepub.com/ Political Research Quarterly http://prq.sagepub.com/content/ 60/1/159 The online version of this article can be found at: DOI: 10.1177/1065912906298636 2007 60: 159 Political Research Quarterly Christopher N. Lawrence ...
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The 3rd Annual APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning in Political Science hosted over 300 participants in lively discussions of trends, techniques, and models in teaching in political science. Held in downtown Washington, DC on... more
The 3rd Annual APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning in Political Science hosted over 300 participants in lively discussions of trends, techniques, and models in teaching in political science. Held in downtown Washington, DC on February 1820, the Conference was ...
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Existing research is replete with evidence that individuals’ perceptions of the state of the economy are seemingly only loosely connected to more objective evaluations of its state and are contaminated by partisan influences. This paper... more
Existing research is replete with evidence that individuals’ perceptions of the state of the economy are seemingly only loosely connected to more objective evaluations of its state and are contaminated by partisan influences. This paper provides further evidence of why these partisan influences come about, by advancing the hypothesis that citizen political knowledge moderates the effect of partisanship on economic evaluations, grounded in Zaller’s Receive-Accept-Sample model of opinion formation and articulation. The paper also advances the hypothesis that more knowledgeable partisans will respond to changes in elite messaging regarding the economy fairly rapidly after a change in control of the government.
I examine these propositions using data from the ANES panel study of public opinion between January 2008 and June 2010, and find evidence affirming the essential interactive role of knowledge and partisanship in the formation and articulation of evaluations of the national economy.
I examine these propositions using data from the ANES panel study of public opinion between January 2008 and June 2010, and find evidence affirming the essential interactive role of knowledge and partisanship in the formation and articulation of evaluations of the national economy.
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In this paper, we expand the existing research on interviewer effects in telephone surveys by investigating the interacting effects of interviewers’ race on responses to a survey of African American southerners conducted in February 2009... more
In this paper, we expand the existing research on interviewer effects in telephone surveys by investigating the interacting effects of interviewers’ race on responses to a survey of African American southerners conducted in February 2009 by the Social and Behavioral Research Lab at Winthrop University on questions regarding topics such as respondents’ political knowledge, attitudes toward Barack Obama’s presidency, and beliefs about race in southern and American society.