Sentence examples for study of voting from inspiring English sources

In its 57th annual study of voting patterns, published this week, Congressional Quarterly reported that Congress was more partisan than ever in 2009.

A study of voting patterns in the 1990s compared two groups, people with annual incomes over $75,000 and under $15,000.

Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, has said he will propose a bill allotting $10 million for the study of voting methods to the Federal Election Commission and an additional $250 million as matching funds to help states adopt improved systems.

In the autumn of 1998, when Karl Rove was contriving to make Governor George W. Bush President and to build a lasting Republican majority, he came upon "The Catholic Voter Project," a study of voting behavior in national elections since the Kennedy-Nixon contest of 1960.

A psychological study of voting behavior suggests an answer and points to a simple fix.

A detailed study of voting age and voters in Denmark found that 18-year-olds were far more likely to cast their "first vote" than 19-year-olds, and that every month of extra age in those years resulted in a decline in "first vote" turnout.

Never mind that this strategy defies the judgment of most academic studies of voting behavior: that voters largely decide on incumbents based on a retrospective judgment of the economic situation during the last year or so in office.

"Nothing even remotely resembling party discipline on the issue of abortion can be identified on Capitol Hill before 1979," she reports; studies of voting patterns show that Republicans were actually more pro-choice than Democrats until the late nineteen-eighties.

Furthermore, studies of voting show that the most important factor determining whether or not a person will vote is his or her sense of civic duty.

For example, a study of the voting culture of highland people was conducted and found that most samples voted for the lowland candidate because of his or her ability to act as local representative to coordinate with government agencies and other areas [ 13].

"Republicans don't have an institutional network to get Hispanics out to vote," said Rodolfo de la Garza, a political science professor at Columbia University who conducted a separate study of Latino voting patterns for the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, a research organization on Hispanic issues.