Copyright (c) 2010 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton Recent documents in G. R. Boynton en-us Mon, 25 Oct 2010 08:47:28 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/69 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/69 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:11:38 PDT Senator Ted Kennedy died late evening August 25, 2009. The New York Times and the Washington Post on the death of Senator Kennedy. The Washington Post reports that the family announced his death early on August 26. G. R. Boynton New Media and Politics - Microblogging http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/68 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/68 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:37:54 PDT It was but a drop in a roiling stream of 50 million messages a day. Three hundred and sixty seven times the word went out: "Sarah Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care: http://bit.ly/cRRdAU". From time to time the basic messages was either adapted slightly or augmented with commentary by the tweeter, but the basic message was always the same. While living in Alaska Sarah Palin had regularly crossed into Canada for healthcare.Why more than once? The same question could be asked about all communication utilizing Twitter. The Twitter stream is full of repetition. A power blackout in Chile after days of earthquakes is reported hundreds of times. Google threatening to pull out of China appears thousands of times. Redundancy reigns, but to what effect? G. R. Boynton New Media and Politics - Microblogging http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/67 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/67 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:22:06 PDT "AG Holder: We'll read miranda rights to Bin Laden's corpse, http://bit.ly/9opKoe" 3/17/2010 8:02 AM VivaLaEurasis_ "On a scale from Anne Frank to Osama Bin Laden, how good was my hiding spot?" LOLOLOL, 3/18/2010 3:44 PM Attorney General Holder was testifying before a congressional subcommittee (House Appropriations) about trials for terrorists and was asked about Bin Laden. The Republican committee member was quizzing him about handling 'terrorists.' Holder was arguing for the US court system. The Republican wanted war and that would be clear if terrorists were tried by military tribunal. Holder said terrorists, including Bin Laden, would be treated the same way other mass murderers have been treated. Finally, exasperated, he said let's get real here. The chance of capturing Bin Laden alive is infintesimal. We will be reading miranda rights over a dead body. G. R. Boynton New Media and Politics - Microblogging http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/66 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/66 Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:14:14 PDT It's into pop culture -- Oprah will retire in September of 2011. And that is breaking news. G. R. Boynton New Media and Politics - Microblogging http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/65 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/65 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:23:47 PDT The author of this paper seeks to explain the consistently conservative record of Southern Democrats in Congress. V. O. Key attributed this conservatism to the low level of voting by the more liberal working class in the South and the much higher voting rate of the more conservative middle class. The Present author offers two additional explanations: the unusual distribution of attitudes in the South as compared to the rest of the nation, and the conservatism of the Southerners most likely to communicate with Congressmen. G. R. Boynton http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/64 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/64 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:19:42 PDT Lewis Bowman http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/63 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/63 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:15:33 PDT Lewis Bowman http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/62 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/62 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:08:39 PDT Research on relationships between legislators and their constituents generally has proceeded from the point of view of demand inputs. This paper views legislator-constituent relations from the viewpoint of supportive attitudes toward the legislature, rather than focusing on demands made upon it. Based upon interview data from a household probability sample of adults in Iowa, this study maps the structure of legislative support in major social and political strata of the Iowa population. Likert-type attitudinal items reflecting public support for the legislature are factor analyzed, and respondents factor scored. Analysis of variance is used to assess relationships between legislative support and 1) standard indicators of social strata: occupation, income, education and size of place; and 2) indicators of political stratification: political knowledge and political participation. G. R. Boynton http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/61 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/61 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:04:06 PDT Research on relationships between legislators and their constituents generally has proceeded from the point of view of demand inputs. This paper views legislator-constituent relations from the viewpoint of supportive attitudes toward the legislature, rather than focusing on demands made upon it. Based upon interview data from a household probability sample of adults in Iowa, this study maps the structure of legislative support in major social and political strata of the Iowa population. Likert-type attitudinal items reflecting public support for the legislature are factor analyzed, and respondents factor scored. Analysis of variance is used to assess relationships between legislative support and 1) standard indicators of social strata: occupation, income, education and size of place; and 2) indicators of political stratification: political knowledge and political participation. G. R. Boynton http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/60 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/60 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:58:28 PDT G. R. Boynton http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/59 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/59 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:48:51 PDT In this study, based on a random household probability sample of 1,001 Iowa adults, the basic hypothesis is that congruence between perceptions and expectations about the legislature leads to high support for the legislature, and incongruence between perceptions and expectations leads to low support for the legislature. Data from the Iowa sample provide tentative confirmation of this hypothesis. Congruent and incongruent groups on each of ten factors were compared on their levels of legislative support. For each factor, the congruent group had a higher mean support score than did the incongruent group, although in only five cases was this difference satistically significant. The results do suggest that support for the political system, or some subsystem of it, is dependent to some extent upon congruencies in the mass public between expectations and perceptions of the system. G. R. Boynton http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/58 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/58 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:37:53 PDT G. R. Boynton http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/57 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/57 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:36:20 PDT G. R. Boynton http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/56 http://works.bepress.com/g_r_boynton/56 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:34:21 PDT G. R. 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