Project Title: Finding the Correlational Coefficient Between Support for Political Violence and Disbelief in the Electoral Process
BASIS Advisor: Mr. Hirsch
This project will look for the correlation in support for political violence and disbelief in elections in Columbia and Georgetown students. Students are the subjects because they are the future. These are going to be future voters and leaders and political activists so by looking at them now will provide a rough estimate of what later general population studies will see can be determined. By using two schools, one in Washington D.C. and one in New York City the effects on witnessing political violence, the Capital Riot, on the student’s opinions can also be determined. When it comes to both support for political violence and belief in voter fraud, most of the current academic research is rooted in partisanship.
My Posts
Week 8: Implications
May 18, 2022
The numbers and correlation I found shows a lot about the political future of this country. The results of this study don’t bode well for a future free of political violence, though better than the initial hypothesis. The positives shown by the results were that there was a lack of correlation for liberals in all […]
Week 7: My Results
May 15, 2022
I got more data back than I expected from a more diverse group than I expected. In total, 87 data points were gathered, from a good mix of demographics. There were 49 NYU students and 38 Georgetown students from a mix of political parties, including 11 third party voters and 22 independents. In addition a […]
Week 6: Methodology
May 05, 2022
I am using a survey to answer my research question. The two relevant strengths of an online questionnaire to gather data are large distribution and honesty. Honesty in particular is a benefit for me as people often want to give a socially acceptable answer, which would massively screw my data. By providing them anonymity through […]
Week 5: Increasing Support for Political Violence
May 04, 2022
This week I will be talking about political violence. As partisanship increases, so does support for political violence. Partisanship and issue alignment, which in the US is almost perfectly aligned, were correlated with political hostility. This is backed up by research that found that stronger partisan identities drive stronger intentions to engage in political violence, […]
Week 4: A Declining Faith in Elections
May 03, 2022
This week I am taking a closer look at the collapsing faith in elections that makes the correlation relevant and possible. A large part part of it has to do with the ever conspiratorial minds of Americans. Conspiracy theories are becoming ever more prominent in American politics. A study that appeared in Fairleigh Dickinson University’s […]
AP Research Week 3: Partisanship
Apr 29, 2022
When studying political violence, it is impossible to not look at the partisan identities that fuel it. America is becoming more partisan than ever. According to the American National Election Studies (ANES), an academically-run government funded national surveys of voters in the United States, conducted before and after every presidential election, the amount of people […]
AP Research Week 2: The Gap in the Research
Apr 28, 2022
As an AP student I am trying to fill a gap left by researchers. So far, most of the research when it comes to both support for political violence and belief in voter fraud is rooted in partisanship. This is most obviously done in studies like “The Rise of Negative Partisanship” focusing exclusively on the […]
AP Research Week 1: The Capital Riot
Apr 06, 2022
In the wake of the 2021 Capital Riot, it is clear how people’s lack of faith in democratic institutions could lead them to extreme measures. Its catchphrase, “stop the steal,” highlights the correlation between this violence and a lack of faith in our election. In an interview with CBS’s Face the Nation, a former Trump […]
AP Research Week 0: Introduction
Mar 09, 2022
Hi everyone. I’m Hudson, an AP Research student studying the relationship between how legitimate college student feel elections are and how that correlates to how legitimate they view political violence. I am specifically looking at NYU and Georgetown Universities. I am currently conducting research and hope to be able to finish my data within a […]