www WAPOR Israel 2007

 

WAPOR Regional Seminar:

 "Public Opinion, Communication and Elections"
In Memory of Seymour Martin Lipset

Jerusalem and Haifa, Israel, June 26-29, 2007

 

 

A B S T R A C T S


Palestinian Terrorism and Israeli Government Popularity  (pdf)
Stian Skaar
Ludvigsen, U. of Aarhus, Denmark

The Media and Economic Voting in Israel  (word)
Tamir Sheafer, Hebrew U., Israel

Subjective Party Performance Intervenes between Media Content, Internet Advice and Party Preferences  (pdf)
Jan Kleinnijenhuis, Wouter van Atteveldt, Anita van Hoof, Dirk Oegema, Janet Takens, Vrije U., The Netherlands; Jan de Ridder, Nel Ruigrok, & Otto Scholten, U. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

An Exploratory Study of Exposure to Business News and Political Attitudes and Attributions  (word)
Roei Davidson, Tel Aviv U., Israel


Kadima – Forward in a Dealigned Party System 
Michal Shamir, Tel Aviv University; Raphael Ventura, Israel Democracy Institute; Asher Arian, Israel Democracy Institute and Graduate Center, City University of New York; and Orit Kedar, MIT and Tel Aviv University

The Effects of Electoral Reform in Israel, Japan, New Zealand, and Belgium
Helen Chang, City U. of New York, USA
 

The Belfast Agreement: How to Win a Referendum and the Next Election  (pdf)
Colin Irwin, U. of Liverpool, United Kingdom


It Feels Like We're Thinking: The Rationalizing Voter and Electoral Democracy 
Larry Bartels, Princeton U.

 

The Influence of Presumed Media Influence on Strategic Voting: Evidence from the Israeli 2003 and 2006 Elections  (word)
Yariv Tsfati & Jonathan Cohen, U. of Haifa, Israel

I Know What You Did Last Summer: How Knowledge of Possible Election Outcomes Determines Voting Decisions  (pdf)
Olaf Jandura, Ludwig-Maximilians-U. Munich, Germany & Wolfgang Donsbach, U. of Technology Dresden, Germany

The RCS Design and Communication Effects in Election Campaigns, Italy 2006  (word)
Hans Schadee, U. Milano Bicocca, Italy


90’s Immigrants from the FSU in Israeli Elections 2006: The Fulfillment of the Political Dreams of Post-Soviet Man?  (word)
Michael Philippov, U. of Haifa, Israel

Balance of power: Indigeneity, National Identity and Public Opinion in Aotearoa/New Zealand  (word)
Michèle Schoenberger-Orgad, Margalit Toledano & David McKie U. of Waikato, New Zealand

Anti-incumbency Sentiment of Elections in FPTP Systems: The Next Level of Quantification and Understanding the Anti Incumbency Index (AII)  (word)
Yashwant Deshmukh, CVoter Foundation, India

 

Spaces of the (Un-) Political: Re-thinking Content Analysis for Political Communication Research  (pdf)
Hans-Bernd Brosius &
Katja Schwer, Ludwig-Maximilians U. Munich, Germany

The ‘Missing Link’ – Merging Survey and Content Analysis Data for a Multi-level Approach in Election Research  (pdf)
Bertram Scheufele, U. of Jena, Germany & Alexander Haas, U. of Munich, Germany

Why Measuring Exposure is Not Only Important, But Possible  (word)
Kenneth M. Goldstein, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

 

Social Networks and Voting in Italy: A Study of the 2006 Elections  (word)
Donatella Campus & Gianfranco Pasquino, U. of Bologna, Italy

Campaign Effects on the Home Stretch: A Study of the German Parliamentary Campaign 2005  (word)
Jens Tenscher, U. of Mannheim, Germany & Peter Schrott, Heilbronn U., Germany

Campaign Mixed-Message Flows and Time of Voting Decision: A Quasi-Experiment  (word)
Lilach Nir, Hebrew U., Israel & James N. Druckman, Northwestern U., USA


Do Leaders Matter? Candidates' Images and the Effectiveness of Election Campaigns  (word)
Mauro Barisione, U. of Milan, Italy

Moscow vs. Russia: Qualitative and Quantitative Research to Uncover Attitudes towards Democracy  (word)
Victor R. Pratusevich, ROMIR, Russian Federation

Spinning the 2006 Israeli Elections: Spin-Doctors, Public Opinion and the Media  (word) 
Atara Frenkel-Faran, Sapir College and Bar Ilan U. & Sam Lehman-Wilzig, Bar Ilan U., Israel
 

To See or Not to See: Israeli Election Laws, Freedom of Expression, and the Need for Speech Transparency  (word)
Amit M. Schejter, Penn State U., USA & Moran Yemini New York U., USA

 

Media Framing of Problems with Voting Technology in the United States  (word)
Michael W. Traugott, University of Michigan, USA

The Mandate that Never Was: Olmert's Convergence Plan in the 2006 Israeli Knesset
(word)

Jacob Shamir, Hebrew U., Israel, Michal Shamir, Tel Aviv U., Israel, & Gitit Poran, Hebrew U., Israel 
 

 

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