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The dissertation is comprised of three separate chapters. The first two chapters deal with attitudes toward minorities and the political and economic outcome of these attitudes in the U.S. and Israel. The third chapter evaluates The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index in …

This dissertation is a study of the political behavior of Arab Americans based on the Detroit Arab American Study of 2003. It examines the dependent variables of voting, writing to politicians and donating money to political campaigns. The independent variables include two socio…

This dissertation examines the main determinants of voting behavior in Turkey. Previous research has been divided about the relative importance of religious, ethnic, and socioeconomic factors in vote choice among Turkey's citizens. Utilizing a large nationwide survey of 10,393 p…

Using fixed effects estimation, this study assesses the relationship between the provincial election results of 2002 and 2011 in Turkey's 81 provinces, and provincial socio-economic development level. To operationalize the socio-economic development level; urbanization rate, edu…

In the past 60 years, the number of low-to-working class White voters who have deserted the Democratic Party and instead support Republican candidates has steadily increased. Low-to-working-class Americans of other races have not abandoned the Democratic Party in comparable ways…

The linkages between partisanship, split-ticket voting, and divided government have long been treated as trivial, even deterministic. Independents, it has been consistently shown, are more likely to split their tickets than are partisans, to the point that this behavior has some…