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6a. Here, the null hypothesis is that there is no difference in the rate of partisan identification between the White and Black populations. 6b. RESPONDENT | partisan RACE (1) | 0 1 | Total -----------+----------------------+---------- 1 | 9.75 90.25 | 100.00 2 | 7.60 92.40 | 100.00 -----------+----------------------+---------- Total | 9.53 90.47 | 100.00 6c. = = -0.18 to 4.48 6d. Based on these

Introduction In October 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named Nova Scotia’s Wanda Thomas Bernard as one of Canada’s nine non-partisan senators (Williams, 2016). According to Semansky (2016), Dr. Bernard, “who serves as the university’s special advisor, diversity and inclusiveness, [is] the first African Nova Scotian woman to serve in the Senate Chamber” (para. 2). In response to the news, Bernard has stated that “equity for all is [her] primary goal in life. To be able to enter the Senate

reliability by using the overall amount of candidate coverage, instead of measuring tone. This evidence is empirical, and thus is not subjective by any means. Finally, the article then transitions to detailing the three specific approaches to measure partisan media effects during the 2008 election. The article uses three different approaches. Each of the three approaches is designed in a way to counteract their respective

to elect judges to the bench provides judges to be more accessible to its citizens. This also allows for citizens to vote for a judge who share their own political and philosophical views (Souders, 2006), which can be beneficial to them. Partisan and non-partisan elections highly favour judicial accountability. Judicial accountability is where judges are held accountable for their decisions and actions, while also being accountable to its citizens both on and off the bench. According to Souders, “making

turn affects partisan vote that would otherwise dissipate in midterm or off-election years. However, Gallup Polls surveys, conducted face-to-face from 1953 to 1995, provided “no evidence that party identification surges during presidential [or off] election years”. These surveys in both the short and long term attests to the fact that party identification is extremely stable for voters, regardless of the presence of a presidential election year. While it may be possible that partisans vote against

Direct partisan elections in selecting Texas state judges imply that the candidates for the seat should run for office and conduct electoral campaigns just all other candidates running for elective post and office. Such appointment of by use of partisan elections affects professional, independence and accountability of the Texan judges, though to differing and in different ways (Maxwell, Ernest & Mark, 252). To ensure that, the degree which the judges deliver the truth and justice in the most prominent

I made in the wired fence, and we’re joining the Partisans,” whispered Ben. “ Are you sure this is safe ? What if we get caught,”

In Texas, we elect our judges through a partisan election. A partisan election is in which a party label appears on the ballot. Only six states, including Texas, elect justices in a partisan race. Many critics have claimed that a partisan election for judges have more negatives than positives. Due to their affiliation with a party, they are not fair and biased. However in most cases, these judges are consistent and accountable. Dating back to Andrew Jackson, Texas has used the long ballot

Jewish Resistance has been pondered for many years about what it truly was. For most historians many believe that there was no true form of resistance from the Jewish people to stop the holocaust while other historians argue that they did all they could in order to stop the holocaust from happening. While I believe that both sides of this argument are true in the sense that Jewish Resistance was widespread, but there were no connecting pieces in order to make Jewish Resistance affective enough to

opinions of ideological bias in the news content. This idea is called the hostile media phenomenon or hostile media effect. In a groundbreaking study in 1985, researchers, Vallone, Ross, and Lepper, postulated that when there is a controversial issue, a partisan is more likely to perceive bias against their viewpoint, even if the information is coming from an objective news source. The causes effects of the hostile media are far-ranging and several researchers have come to different conclusions about them