US Election and Sino-US Relations

The general elections in the United States this year will elect the first presidentin the new millennium, a third of the senators (34) and all the 435 house rep-resentatives. The event will have a historic importance in the annals of the nationbecause involved will not only be the political fortune and strategic direction of theDemocratic and the Republic Parties but also changes in US foreign policy, Chinapolicy in particular.     

Do Online Election Campaigns Win Votes? The 2007 Australian “YouTube” Election

Studies of Web use during elections have focused mainly on the content of Web sites and on the major factors driving parties' and candidates' adoption of the technology. Evaluations of the electoral impact of Web campaigns have been more limited. This article examines the nature and extent of Web use by voters and parties in the 2007 Australian federal election, focusing particularly on the consequences of Web 2.0 campaigning for candidate vote share. The findings show differing levels of commitment to older and newer e-campaigning technology across parties and their supporters and significant electoral advantages are associated with minor parties candidates using Web 2.0 campaign tools. The results confirm existing studies' findings about the impact of Web campaigns on contemporary elections, but that these effects are moderated by the type of Web tools used and party using them.     

Trend of Political Situation after UK Election

TheLaborpartyledbyToniBlairwontheBritishelection,achievingaconsecutivethirdvictoryforthefirsttimein Labor's100yearsofhistory.AndBlairbecamethesecondPrime MinsterwhoholdsconsecutivethreetermsafterWorldWarII,fol-lowingMrs.Thatcher.ButBlairmaystepdownduringhisthird termjustlikeMrs.Thatchertoo.Blair'spositioninBritishpolitics hasbeguntofluctuateaftertheelection,andmanyvariableshave occurred.Firstofall,Blair'sstatusisinchallenge.ThoughtheLabor haswonthethirdelection,Blairisdemandedtoresign…     

My Experience of Sudan＇s General Election

<正>From April 11-15, Sudan, a country with the largest territory in Africa, held a general election that attracted world attention. As a member of the     

Analysis on the 2008 Presidential Election of the United States

Since the beginning of the year of 2007, the Democratic and Republican Parities in the United States have launched another round of contest for 2008 presidential election. Each party has its own advantages and distinctive campaign strategies. Their respective candidates are staging eye-catching campaign activities.     

Independent Media Commission: Report on Audience Research – Election 1994

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In the era of postcolonialism the idea of an ‘African mind’ is tempting. However, constructing a notion such as the decolonised mind is theoretically problematic, as ‘African’ thought is located within the Western discourses of modernity. In order to theorise ‘African’ thought in its positivity, it is necessary to move beyond the binary oppositions of coloniser: colonised and West:Africa, and thus outside the Western teleological discourses of modernity that provided the conditions for colonial expansion in the first place. This article argues that an approach which takes local culture seriously is possible in a theory of articulation. It is necessary to realise that ‘Africa’ itself is a political, economic and cultural construct, and that this construction is the effect of complex articulations of political, economic, cultural and other discourses and practices. This entails that the very enabling conditions of postcoloniality, and the application of the term, have to be examined. A cultural studies using a theory of articulation would look at the way in which ‘Africa’ and ‘African thought’ are mobilised within the conditions of global capitalism.     

Who Advocates? Determinants of Political Advocacy in Presidential Election Years

Political discussion research often focuses on general discussion without analyzing interesting subsets of interpersonal communication, such as political advocacy. Political advocacy is crucial to study because it is where citizens make clear statements of their beliefs when trying to influence others, which democratic theorists cite as valuable in spreading information in discussion networks. In this project, we test theoretically relevant determinants of political advocacy, focusing on campaign spending. Using multilevel logistic regression models of American National Election Study survey data from presidential elections between 1976 and 2008, we find that campaign spending correlates with an increase in the likelihood of advocating. We also find that the likelihood of being an advocate correlates with greater political discussion, television usage, interest in politics, partisanship, efficacy, and socioeconomic status. Additionally, we break these results down by party spending and party identification, and find differentiated results by party. Generally, these results show how the electoral environment shapes interpersonal communication.     

Looking at U. S. Political Changes from the Election

Bush won the election in the 2004 President election in America, leaving many topics for discussion for scholars. Here I want to raise two questions: first, why Bush was re-elected? Second, what does Bush's being re-elected mean to U. S. politics? With regard to the first ques- tion, many analyses have been done that can be concluded as the fol- lowing four reasons: (1) U. S. political history and election history show that wartime president is very likely to be re-elected. (2) Ameri- ca w…     

Notes of Observations at the General Election in the United Sates

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India＇s General Election and Development Trend of Its New Government

The 15th Indian Parliament （Lok Sabha） elections were held on schedule in April-May this year. The United Progressive Alliance led by the Indian National Congress won 262 of the total 543 seats. The Congress Party got 206 seats, an increase of 61 seats over the last election in 2004. This has been the greatest victory obtained by a political party in India＇s general election since 1977.     

Is President Obama’s Race Chronically Accessible? Racial Priming in the 2012 Presidential Election

A vast literature indicates that racial animosity has a pervasive influence on the public’s evaluations of U.S. President Barack Obama. Can political communications enhance and/or defuse the link between White Americans’ racial attitudes and evaluations of Barack Obama? In this article, we report the results of an experiment conducted in the midst of the 2012 presidential campaign which examines the effect of political rhetoric on the extent to which evaluations of Barack Obama are racialized. Drawing from research on attitude strength and pretreatment effects in experimental studies, we argue that the use of racial appeals in the pretreatment environment and the strength of citizens’ preexisting attitudes toward the incumbent president may produce a downward bias in average estimates of racial priming effects toward President Obama. After accounting for individual differences in the propensity to form strong attitudes with need to evaluate, we observe substantial effects of campaign rhetoric in priming racial attitudes toward President Obama, especially among individuals who are low in the need to evaluate and who tend to have more malleable political attitudes. We conclude by discussing implications for research on racial priming and the politics of racial intolerance in evaluations of Barack Obama.     

U. S. Domestic & Foreign Policy Trend after the 2004 Election(Ⅱ)

The U.S.presidential election result finally turned out at zeroo'clock sharp on November4,2004.The winner is the presentPresident George W.Bush.The election attracted worldwideattention,not only because of its only superpower status and stressedelection situation,but also because of the many hot issues in the worldthat America is deeply involved in.In order to have a good command ofthe trend of U.S.policies,both internal and external,the Expert Forumof Contemporary International Relation…     

U. S. Domestic & Foreign Policy Trend after the 2004 Election (Ⅰ)

The U. S. presidential election result finally turned out at zero o'clock sharp on November 4, 2004. The winner is the presentPresident George W. Bush. The election attracted worldwideattention, not only because of its only superpower status and stressed election situation, but also because of the many hot issues in the world that America is deeply involved in. In order to have a good command of the trend of U. S. policies, both internal and external, the Export Forum of Contemporary Int…     

The U.S. Global Strategy as Seen from the Debate in the Primary Election

There may be more than one year to go before the 2008 U.S. presidential election, but the primary election of the two parties has already begun ahead of time. Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for the     

“Another National Milestone”: Canada's 1927 Election to the Council of the League of Nations

Ten days after announcing its candidature, and amidst some surprise, Canada was elected to a non-permanent seat on the Council of the League of Nations. This article will show how and why this came about. In so doing, it will demonstrate that Canada's election was an important episode from several perspectives. First, it was a milestone in Canada's gradual international coming of age, confirming that it was entitled to all the rights and responsibilities of League membership. Second, it was a significant step in the development of the Commonwealth into an association of equals. And, third, it contributed to the gelling of the emerging group system in elections to the League Council.     

On the 2002 U. S. Mid-Term Election Zhang Yanyu and Wang Wenfeng are both assistant research professors at the Division for American Studies in China Institute of Contemporary International Relations

The first mid-term election of the U. S. in the new century took place on November 5, 2002. One third of the senators from the 107th Congress (34 out of 100), all representatives (435), 36 state governors, and numerous local officials and legislators were to be elected or reelected. The resounding victory of the GOP in the congressional elections and the fact that the Democrats only got three more governors