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1 online resource |
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Cover; Politics on Display; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures, Tables, and Maps; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Seeing Signs from Different Perspectives; What Do We Know about Signs?; Roll-Off in the Presence of Yard Signs; What Don't We Know about Signs?; Why Do People Put Their Politics on Display?; Do Yard Signs Change the Way We Engage with Politics?; How and When Does (the Sign) Context Matter?; The Case for Signs; Signs Are Markers of (Partisan) Identity; Signs Are Uniquely Social; Signs Define Spaces; Plan of the Book |
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2. The Research Design: Neighborhoods in the SpotlightPutting Politics in Context; Conceptualizing Neighborhoods; The Research Sites; Franklin County, Ohio; Upper Arlington, Ohio; Broomfield, Colorado; The Observational Data; Addressing Missing Data; Leveraging the Tools of Spatial Analysis; The Survey Methodology; Measuring Social Networks; Measuring Household Participation; Looking Ahead; 3. Who Puts Their Politics on Display?; National Survey Evidence on Sign Displaying; Individual Traits of Sign Displayers; The View from the Street; Property Traits and Sign Displaying |
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Neighborhood Influences on Sign DisplayingPersonality Traits and Sign Displaying; In Their Own Words; Implications; 4. "Not in My Front Yard": Investigating Attitudes about Signs; How People View Yard Signs; Judgments about Signs; Bringing in Other Types of Participation; Reactions by Reported Sign Prevalence; Multivariate Models of Attitudes toward Displays; Yard Sign Norms; A Nationwide View; Emotions on Display?; Which Emotions Do Signs Provoke?; Does Sign Prevalence Influence Emotional Responses?; Perceptions of Political Efficacy; Sign Displaying and Efficacy; In Their Own Words |
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Implications5. Means, Motive, and Opportunity: How People Come to Display Signs; What Makes Sign Displaying Attractive?; Are Signs Viewed as Participation or Communication?; Motivations for Sign Displaying; Motives in Context; Perceptions of Motives: Displayers and Non-Displayers; How Displayers Obtain Signs; The Temporal Dimension of Sign Displaying; Candidate Evaluations and Timing; In Their Own Words; Implications; 6. Patterns Real and Imagined: Analyzing Sign Displays in Neighborhood Space; The Spatial Dimension of Sign Displaying; Analyzing Single-Sign Clustering |
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The Average Minimum Distance TestClustering of Presidential Signs; Analyzing Multiple-Sign Clustering; The Nearest Neighbor Test; Joint Clustering of Presidential Signs; Leveraging Time; Multivariate Models of Sign Display; Implications; 7. Lower Stakes: Sign Displays for Down Ballot Candidates; Where Do We See Down-Ballot Sign Displays?; Down-Ballot Displaying: Survey Evidence; Contest Type and Sign Displays; Down-Ballot Displays and Future Sign Displaying; Spatial Patterns in Down-Ballot Sign Displaying; Joint Clustering of Down-Ballot Signs; Multivariate Analysis; The Contests |
| Summary |
Who displays yard signs? Why do they display them? In Politics on Display, we examine how neighborhoods become politicized during campaign seasons, exploring the causes and consequences of sign displaying and its implications for our understanding of political participation, attitudes about campaigns and elections, and social interaction in neighborhoods |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 22, 2019) |
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Advertising, Political -- Social aspects -- Ohio -- Franklin County
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Political socialization -- Ohio -- Franklin County
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Political culture -- Ohio -- Franklin County
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Neighborhoods -- Ohio -- Franklin County
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Neighborhoods
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Political culture
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Political socialization
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Ohio -- Franklin County
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Minkoff, Scott L., author.
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Sokhey, Anand Edward, 1981- author.
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| ISBN |
9780190926335 |
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0190926333 |
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9780190926359 |
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019092635X |
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