Dynamics in Elections: Studying Changes in West Virginia's Electoral Systme

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dc.contributor.authorUnderwood, Billie Jeanen
dc.contributor.committeechairHult, Karen M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWalcott, Charles E.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBrians, Craig Leonarden
dc.contributor.departmentPolitical Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:47:44Zen
dc.date.adate2001-11-14en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:47:44Zen
dc.date.issued2001-09-07en
dc.date.rdate2002-11-14en
dc.date.sdate2001-11-11en
dc.description.abstractAmong scholars in the field of state and local politics, the value of using the state and local levels of analysis cannot be overemphasized. Examining political trends at these levels often provides us with far more information about the United States than only looking at the national level. This is true particularly for subjects like elections, parties, and realignment. The research reported here adds to a body of literature that focuses on the state level when examining elections and party realignment. In this thesis I focus on the dynamics of elections in West Virginia. The main focus of this research is to see to what to extent West Virginia has experienced a realignment of its political party system. Due to regional differences within the state I anticipate that more change will occur farther north and east. The data used here to explore these differences are at the county and state legislative district levels and were gathered from the Secretary of State's office in West Virginia (on-line) and from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. census. Such measures as turnout, registration and election results at the federal and state levels will be used to indicate changes in partisan competition.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-11112001-095221en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11112001-095221/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/35662en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartwv.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectElectionsen
dc.subjectCampaignsen
dc.subjectState and Local Electionsen
dc.subjectPartisan Competitionen
dc.subjectVotingen
dc.subjectRealignmenten
dc.subjectDealignmenten
dc.titleDynamics in Elections: Studying Changes in West Virginia's Electoral Systmeen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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