This article addresses an emerging policy problem in the United States participation in the electoral process by citizens with dementia. At present, health care professionals, family caregivers, and long-term care staff lack adequate guidance to decide whether individuals with dementia should be precluded from or assisted in casting a ballot. Voting by persons with dementia raises a series of i...

Feelings of dissatisfaction with the political status quo are believed to mobilize citizens into non-institutional action, such as protest. Still, little is known about whether and how participation through social media provide an alternative voicing route for discontented citizens. Guided by grievance theory, this article assesses both electoral exit behaviour (e.g., abstaining) attitudes disc...

nowadays, election is one of the important issues in all the countries that their political system is based on democracy. this study investigated the effectiveness of promotional tools on the behavior of voters in the eleventh round of iran's presidential election. in this study, media campaign tools were divided into two categories of media and non-media ones and the effect of each on the vote...

BACKGROUND Participation at the recommended intervals is critical for screening to be effective in reducing colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence. This study describes patterns of screening participation over four rounds of fecal immunochemical testing (FIT) to identify whether demographic variables and prior screening satisfaction are significantly associated with patterns of re-participation. M...

Rosenthal (1981) gets off to a bad start. The first sentence says "Pierce (1981) claims to have tested the Rosenthal-Sen (1973, 1977) spatial model of French voting behavior by using individual survey responses" (p. 363). Readers will look in vain for any such claim in my article. What I did, "by a different method than that employed by Rosenthal and Sen" (Pierce, 1981, p. 118), was to apply th...

We consider a two-alternative election with voluntary participation and nearly common interests in which voters may acquire information about which alternative is best. Voters may be rational or naive in the sense of being able, or not, to update their beliefs about the state of the world conditioning on the behavior of others. We show that there is full information equivalence if all voters ar...

Previous research has provided contested hypotheses about the impact of income inequality on electoral participation. This study reexamines debate between conflict and relative power theories by focusing a largely ignored factor: social mobility. We argue that mobility conditions inequality-participation nexus alleviating frustration, class conflict, efficacy gaps rich poor prevailing assume to...

OBJECTIVE To report the processes and protocols that were developed in the design and implementation of the Hauora Manawa Project, a cohort study of heart disease in New Zealand and to report the participation at baseline. METHODS This study utilised application of a Kaupapa Māori Methodology in gaining tribal and health community engagement, design of the project and random selection of part...