Delli Carpini, Michael X

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    Does It Make Any Difference How You Feel About Your Job? An Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Political Orientations
    (1983) Delli Carpini, Michael X; Sigel, Roberta S; Snyder, Robin
    Does job satisfaction - as reported by the jobholder have a bearing on one's political orientations? Findings based upon five sets of political variables suggest that job satisfaction is related to politics, though not always strongly so. Dissatisfied individuals participate less, trust government less, and are more politically alienated than job-satisfied respondents. Job satisfaction cannot be characterized as a surrogate for other job- and personality-related characteristics, but has explanatory power of its own, though this power is affected when controls are introduced to the research design. While job satisfaction has important political implications, none of the relationships examined split satisfied and dissatisfied individuals into opposing majorities. In a relatively alienated, distrustful. and apathetic population, the dissatisfied are somewhat more so. The data base was NORC's General Social Survey Cumulative File 1972-1980.
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    The Year of the Woman? Candidates, Votes and the 1992 Elections
    (1993) Delli Carpini, Michael X; Williams, Bruce A
    The struggle for political power has been long and difficult for women in the United States. The barriers to participation in politics have been both legal and cultural, overt and subtle. In colonial America there were few direct limits on women's participation. However, the combination of franchise restrictions based on property ownership and the overwhelming propensity for property to be held in a man's name meant that few women participated in electoral politics as either voters or officeholders.
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    Scooping the Voters? The Consequences of the Networks' Early Call of the 1980 Presidential Race
    (1984-08-01) Delli Carpini, Michael X
    The election projection of the 1980 presidential contest by NBC raised much speculation concerning its possible impact on voting in states where the polls were still open. Research on the subject has started from different assumptions, used different data and methods, and come to different conclusions concerning the real-world effects of such early calls. Using district-level voting and demographic data and focusing on deviations from normal voting patterns, this study finds the early call to have had a small but measurable impact on presidential and congressional turnout, and a somewhat larger impact on depressing the vote for Democratic candidates at both levels. In addition, higher income, white collar, and better educated populations appear to have been affected to a greater extent. While the overall impact was too small to have affected the outcome of the presidential race, at the congressional level as many as fourteen races were won by margins smaller than the estimated impact of the early call in those districts.
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    Colleges Should Foster Growth in Young-Voter Turnout
    (2005-12-02) Delli Carpini, Michael X; Frishberg, Ivan
    In Virginia's recent tight race for governor, the three candidates could not agree on much of anything, yet all found a common cause that brought them together at least momentarily. They all participated in a forum at Virginia Commonwealth University on how to court young voters across the state — a signal that politicians are recognizing young people as a new and important audience in Virginia politics. Ultimately, all three candidates promised to make up the state's $340-million budget shortfall for higher education.
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    What Should Be Learned Through Service Learning?
    (2000-09-01) Delli Carpini, Michael X; Keeter, Scott
    Service learning is typically distinguished from both community service and traditional civic education by the integration of study with hands-on activity outside the classroom, typically through a collaborative effort to address a community problem (Ehrlich 1999, 246). As such, service learning provides opportunities and challenges for increasing the efficacy of both the teaching and practice of democratic politics. To better understand these opportunities and challenges, it is necessary to make explicit the goals of service learning and to consider how these goals intersect those of more traditional approaches to teaching about government and politics. We believe that one place these sometimes competing models could find common ground is in the learning of factual knowledge about politics.
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    "Consumer Journalism" in the Electronic Age: Instant Reaction to the "People's" Presidential Debate
    (1993) Delli Carpini, Michael X; Holsworth, Robert D; Keeter, Scott
    During the second presidential debate at the University of Richmond, Va., on Oct. 15, an audience member remarked that the "amount of time the candidates have spent trashing their opponents' character is depressingly large." President Bush responded by noting that "character is part of being president," and he observed that "I think the first negative campaign run in this election was by Gov. Clinton, and I'm not going to sit there and be a punching bag." As the president spoke, across town at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) a panel of 104 randomly selected undecided and weakly committed voters used hand-held electronic devices to dial in their response to this moment of the debate. A computer instantly processed the evaluations of each voter and plotted the average on a graph. The verdict: the panel did not like what the president was saying. As Bush tried to defend his conduct in the campaign, the summary graph dipped sharply below the neutral midpoint of the scale and remained there while he spoke on this topic.
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    The Tasks in Creating a New Journalism
    (2004-01-01) Delli Carpini, Michael X
    Journalism is not going to disappear. As author Michael Schudson observed, if there were not journalists, we’d have to invent them. The real issue is what journalism will look like and if it — and the larger media environment of which it is a part — will ably serve our democracy.
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    Effects of the News Media Environment on Citizen Knowledge of State Politics and Government
    (1994-07-01) Delli Carpini, Michael X; Keeter, Scott; Kennamer, J. David
    This multivariate analysis shows that residents in and near Richmond, Virginia, where the state capital is located, are significantly more knowledgeable about state politics than are residents living elsewhere in the state, especially in the northern Virginia - Washington, D.C. metro area. A newspaper content analysis demonstrates that Richmond- area residents are exposed to far more news of state politics and government than are residents of northern Virginia. The study suggests that the media environment is highly important in providing the opportunity for citizens to learn about politics.
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    Public Deliberations, Discursive Participation and Citizen Engagement: A Review of the Empirical Literature
    (2004-01-01) Delli Carpini, Michael X; Cook, Fay Lomax; Jacobs, Lawrence R
    Many theorists have long extolled the virtues of public deliberation as a crucial component of a responsive and responsible democracy. Building on these theories, in recent years practitioners - from government officials to citizen groups, nonprofits, and foundations - have increasingly devoted time and resources to strengthening citizen engagement through deliberative forums. Although empirical research has lagged behind theory and practice, a body of literature has emerged that tests the presumed individual and collective benefits of public discourse on citizen engagement. We begin our review of this research by defining "public deliberation"; we place it in the context of other forms of what we call "discursive participation" while distinguishing it from other ways in which citizens can voice their individual and collective views on public issues.We then discuss the expectations, drawn from deliberative democratic theory, regarding the benefits (and, for some, pitfalls) assumed to derive from public deliberation. The next section reviews empirical research as it relates to these theoretical expectations.We conclude with recommendations on future directions for research in this area.
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    Review of Norman H. Nie, Jane Junn, Kenneth Stehlik-Barry, Education and Democratic Citizenship in America
    (1997-12-01) Delli Carpini, Michael X
    The presumed importance of formal education to good citizenship has been deeply imbedded in the theory and practice of democracy in America since the founding. Education provides the skills and knowledge for creating a productive, informed, and engaged citizenry. It is the great equalizer that helps level the economic, social, and political playing field. Survey research since the 1950s has provided consistent evidence of the value of education at the individual level. Indeed, in his 1972 essay, "Change in the American Electorate" (in Angus Campbell and Philip E. Converse, eds., The Human Meaning of Social Change), Philip E. Converse describes education as "the universal solvent," strongly and positively correlated with a host of valued civic attitudes and behaviors.