Voting behaviour and political culture among students

The objectives of the study are to identify and rank the factors that influence students’ voting behavior, to determine the type of political culture among students and to discover the relationship between demographic variables with factors that influencing students’ voting behavior. The data are...

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Main Authors:	Omar, Muhamad Fuzi, Othman, Muhammad Hanif
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Research Institute for Prgression of Knowledge 2014
Subjects:	JA Political science (General)
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/39450/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39450/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39450/1/Factors_influencing_students_behaviour.pdf

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spelling	iium-394502018-06-11T03:02:00Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/39450/ Voting behaviour and political culture among students Omar, Muhamad Fuzi Othman, Muhammad Hanif JA Political science (General) The objectives of the study are to identify and rank the factors that influence students’ voting behavior, to determine the type of political culture among students and to discover the relationship between demographic variables with factors that influencing students’ voting behavior. The data are collected using survey questionnaires. This study is conducted by focusing on students at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) prior to the students’ representative council election 2014. The number of respondents is 206 students. The methodologies used are descriptive statistics, factor analysis and non-parametric techniques using Kruskal-Wallis test. The results from factor analysis show four new factors which influence students’ voting behavior. Those factors are being labeled as 1) Manifesto, 2) Group Affiliation, 3) Candidates and 4) Status-Qua. The Kruskal-Wallis test results show that there are significant mean differences between years of study with group affiliation, type of faculty with group affiliation and students involvement in society with candidates. Research Institute for Prgression of Knowledge 2014-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/39450/1/Factors_influencing_students_behaviour.pdf Omar, Muhamad Fuzi and Othman, Muhammad Hanif (2014) Voting behaviour and political culture among students. International Journal of Education and Social Sciences ( IJESS ), 1 (4). pp. 31-40. ISSN 2222-7865 http://www.ijessnet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/4.pdf
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description	The objectives of the study are to identify and rank the factors that influence students’ voting behavior, to determine the type of political culture among students and to discover the relationship between demographic variables with factors that influencing students’ voting behavior. The data are collected using survey questionnaires. This study is conducted by focusing on students at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) prior to the students’ representative council election 2014. The number of respondents is 206 students. The methodologies used are descriptive statistics, factor analysis and non-parametric techniques using Kruskal-Wallis test. The results from factor analysis show four new factors which influence students’ voting behavior. Those factors are being labeled as 1) Manifesto, 2) Group Affiliation, 3) Candidates and 4) Status-Qua. The Kruskal-Wallis test results show that there are significant mean differences between years of study with group affiliation, type of faculty with group affiliation and students involvement in society with candidates.
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author	Omar, Muhamad Fuzi Othman, Muhammad Hanif
author_facet	Omar, Muhamad Fuzi Othman, Muhammad Hanif
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title	Voting behaviour and political culture among students
title_short	Voting behaviour and political culture among students
title_full	Voting behaviour and political culture among students
title_fullStr	Voting behaviour and political culture among students
title_full_unstemmed	Voting behaviour and political culture among students
title_sort	voting behaviour and political culture among students
publisher	Research Institute for Prgression of Knowledge
publishDate	2014
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/39450/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39450/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/39450/1/Factors_influencing_students_behaviour.pdf
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