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Download or read book Voter Engagement and Young People written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jacob F.H. Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472128523
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Minority Party Misery written by Jacob F.H. Smith and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of minority party status on politicians’ engagement in electoral politics. Jacob Smith argues that politicians are more likely to be engaged in electoral politics when they expect their party to be in the majority in Congress after the next election and less likely when they anticipate their party will be in the minority. This effect is particularly likely to hold true in recent decades where parties disagree on a substantial number of issues. Politicians whose party will be in the majority have a clear incentive to engage in electoral politics because their preferred policies have a credible chance of passing if they are in the majority. In contrast, it is generally difficult for minority party lawmakers to get a hearing on—much less advance—their preferred policies, particularly when institutional rules inside Congress favor the majority party. Instead, minority party lawmakers spend most of their time fighting losing battles against policy proposals from the majority party. Minority Party Misery examines the consequences of the powerlessness that politicians feel from continually losing battles to the majority party in Congress. Its findings have important consequences for democratic governance, as highly qualified minority party politicians may choose to leave office due to their dismal circumstances rather than continue to serve until their party eventually reenters the majority.
Author : Pippa Norris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190677821
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Election Watchdogs written by Pippa Norris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent decades have seen growing concern regarding problems of electoral integrity. The most overt malpractices used by rulers include imprisoning dissidents, harassing adversaries, coercing voters, vote-rigging counts, and even blatant disregard for the popular vote. Elsewhere minor irregularities are common, exemplified by inaccurate voter registers, maladministration of polling facilities, lack of security in absentee ballots, pro-government media bias, ballot miscounts, and gerrymandering. Serious violations of human rights that undermine electoral credibility are widely condemned by domestic observers and the international community. Recent protests about integrity have mobilized in countries as diverse as Russia, Mexico, and Egypt. However, long-standing democracies are far from immune to these ills; past problems include the notorious hanging chads in Florida in 2000 and more recent accusations of voter fraud and voter suppression during the Obama-Romney contest. When problems come to light, however, is anyone held to account and are effective remedies implemented? In response to these developments, there have been growing attempts to analyze flaws in electoral integrity and transparency using systematic data from cross-national time-series, forensic analysis, field experiments, case studies, and new instruments monitoring mass and elite perceptions of malpractices. This volume collects essays from international experts who evaluate the robustness, conceptual validity, and reliability of the growing body of evidence. The essays compare alternative approaches and apply these methods to evaluate the quality of elections in several areas, including the United States, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. Election Watchdogs:Transparency, Accountability and Integrity presents new insights into the importance of diverse actors who promote electoral transparency, accountability, and ultimately the integrity of electoral governance.
Author : Martin P. Wattenberg
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Is Voting for Young People? written by Martin P. Wattenberg and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible, provocative, and brief book explores the reasons why the young are less and less likely to follow politics and vote in the United States, as well as in many other established democracies, and suggests ways of changing that.
Author : David E. Campbell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400837618
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Why We Vote written by David E. Campbell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do more people vote--or get involved in other civic and political activities--in some communities than in others? Why We Vote demonstrates that our communities shape our civic and political engagement, and that schools are especially significant communities for fostering strong civic norms. Much of the research on political participation has found that levels of participation are higher in diverse communities where issues important to voters are hotly contested. In this well-argued book, David Campbell finds support for this view, but also shows that homogenous communities often have very high levels of civic participation despite a lack of political conflict. Campbell maintains that this sense of civic duty springs not only from one's current social environment, but also from one's early influences. The degree to which people feel a sense of civic obligation stems, in part, from their adolescent experience. Being raised and thus socialized in a community with strong civic norms leads people to be civically engaged in adulthood. Campbell demonstrates how the civic norms within one's high school impact individuals' civic involvement--even a decade and a half after those individuals have graduated. Efforts within America's high schools to enhance young people's sense of civic responsibility could have a participatory payoff in years to come, the book concludes; thus schools would do well to focus more attention on building civic norms among their students.
Author : Jeanette Morehouse Mendez
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781498530316
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Descriptive Elections written by Jeanette Morehouse Mendez and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a theory of descriptive elections that posits mixed-gender elections see higher voter turnout and voter engagement (lower alienation, indifference, and higher interest) as well as greater discussion of campaign issues.
Author : Jerry Spriggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781639458547
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (585 download)
Download or read book All Votes Matter! written by Jerry Spriggs and published by . This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis: The Electoral College always fails to deliver voting results that reflect the will of the people. This book reveals the source of the failure and what can be done to remedy the situation. The remedy, called Equal Voice Voting (EVV), retains the proportional voting process set forth in the Electoral College. It ends the voting disenfranchisement, experienced in every presidential election, which sets aside tens of millions of ballots without representation. EVV, a nonpartisan approach, ensures every vote affects the election results and all viable candidates gain representation. The U.S. Constitution is honored, states retain their independent sovereignty, and the voting process checks and balances are retained - just as the Founding Fathers intended. All Votes Matter! provides a historical look at the Electoral College, examines its basic principles, and provides the results of an in-depth analysis of 16 presidential elections (1960 - 2020). The book emphasizes how we can secure a fairer and more equal voting representation in our presidential elections. It shows that the state-by-state voting results over those 16 elections would have closely adhered to the popular voting results had EVV been used. EVV is compared to a nationwide popular vote election and the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact approach, showing both would fail to serve our nation well. All Votes Matter! shows how EVV can be realized with neither a U.S. Constitutional amendment nor an interstate compact. All Votes Matter! encourages us to be engaged in presidential elections and make our voting voices make a difference. Autobiography: Jerry Spriggs, B.A., M.S., is a retired instructional designer, having designed curricula and developed training strategies and materials for the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and numerous Fortune 500 corporations. His career stemmed from his interest in game design. How we elect our president via the Electoral College began as a curiosity, grew into a hobby, developed into a passion, and is now a beast of truth he must water and feed every day. Jerry and his wife live in Oregon. Jerry admits to having not come from a political background: not a politician, not an attorney, not a political science professor, and not strongly active in any political party. That background, he claims, actually gave him an advantage when originating the Equal Voice Voting approach and in writing All Votes Matter! He started with an evaluation of the voting mechanism and a desire to make the process fair and equitable rather than starting from a vantage point to favor any political agenda. Recognizing, too, that most people do not really understand how the Electoral College works, Jerry exercised the lessons learned from a career in training design and development to frame the book as an instructional tool and to present proof that Equal Voice Voting can increase citizen engagement in our presidential elections.
Author : Joshua A. Douglas
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633885119
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book Vote for US written by Joshua A. Douglas and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert on US election law presents an encouraging assessment of current efforts to make our voting system more accessible, reliable, and effective. In contrast to the anxiety surrounding our voting system, with stories about voter suppression and manipulation, there are actually quite a few positive initiatives toward voting rights reform. Professor Joshua A. Douglas, an expert on our electoral system, examines these encouraging developments in this inspiring book about how regular Americans are working to take back their democracy, one community at a time. Told through the narratives of those working on positive voting rights reforms, Douglas includes chapters on expanding voter eligibility, easing voter registration rules, making voting more convenient, enhancing accessibility at the polls, providing voters with more choices, finding ways to comply with voter ID rules, giving redistricting back to the voters, pushing back on big money through local and state efforts, using journalism to make the system more accountable, and improving civics education. At the end, the book includes an appendix that lists organizations all over the country working on these efforts. Unusually accessible for a lay audience and thoroughly researched, this book gives anyone fed up with our current political environment the ideas and tools necessary to affect change in their own communities.
Author : Sarah Birch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Full Participation written by Sarah Birch and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About a quarter of all democracies today legally oblige their citizens to vote, making this an important aspect of electoral systems in many settings. Moreover, numerous commentators and policy-makers in voluntary voting states are coming to view mandatory attendance at the polls as an attractive option in the context of declining turnout. Yet there has been a dearth of analysis of the way in which compulsory voting shapes attitudes, behaviour and outcomes of the political process. This volume fills that gap by providing a comprehensive description, analysis and evaluation of compulsory voting.
Author : Isabela Mares
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691240043
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Protecting the Ballot written by Isabela Mares and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How reforms limiting electoral misconduct completed the process of democratization Between 1850 and 1918, many first-wave democracies in Europe adopted electoral reforms that reduced the incidence of electoral malfeasance. Drawing on analysis of parliamentary deliberations and roll-call votes in France, Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom, Protecting the Ballot explores how these electoral changes came about. Reforms limiting electoral malfeasance came in a variety of forms. Some reforms imposed harsher punishments for bribing or the politicization of state resources during campaigns. Other changes improved electoral secrecy, providing better protection of voters’ autonomy. By mandating the presence of candidate representatives supervising electoral operations, reforms also reduced the incidence of electoral fraud. Isabela Mares documents how elite splits facilitated the formation of parliamentary majorities in support of electoral reforms. The political composition of these majorities varied across countries and across issue area, depending on the distribution of political resources and the economic and electoral costs incurred by politicians with opportunities to engage in malfeasance. Unpacking the electoral determinants of the demand for reforms, Mares offers an alternative to theories of democratization that emphasize economic considerations alone. By studying the successful adoption of reforms limiting electoral irregularities in first-wave democratic transitions, Protecting the Ballot sheds light on the opportunities and obstacles for ending electoral wrongdoing in recent democracies.
Author : Leslie E. Anderson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226019748
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Learning Democracy written by Leslie E. Anderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, Nicaragua has been mired in poverty and political conflict, yet the country has become a model for the successful emergence of democracy in a developing nation. Learning Democracy tells the story of how Nicaragua overcame an authoritarian government and American interventionism by engaging in an electoral revolution that solidified its democratic self-governance. By analyzing nationwide surveys conducted during the 1990, 1996, and 2001 Nicaraguan presidential elections, Leslie E. Anderson and Lawrence C. Dodd provide insight into one of the most unexpected and intriguing recent advancements in third world politics. They offer a balanced account of the voting patterns and forward-thinking decisions that led Nicaraguans to first support the reformist Sandinista revolutionaries only to replace them with a conservative democratic regime a few years later. Addressing issues largely unexamined in Latin American studies, Learning Democracy is a unique and probing look at how the country's mass electorate moved beyond revolutionary struggle to establish a more stable democratic government by realizing the vital role of citizens in democratization processes.
Author : Westel Woodbury Willoughby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The American Political Science Review written by Westel Woodbury Willoughby and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Political Science Review (APSR) is the longest running publication of the American Political Science Association (APSA). It features research from all fields of political science and contains an extensive book review section of the discipline.
Author : Tony Judt
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814743935
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Marxism and the French Left written by Tony Judt and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in New York by Oxford University Press, 1986.
Author : Joy Aceron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789719249580
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (495 download)
Download or read book Infusing Reform in Elections written by Joy Aceron and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Glenn C. Altschuler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823617
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Rude Republic written by Glenn C. Altschuler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did politics and public affairs mean to those generations of Americans who first experienced democratic self-rule? Taking their cue from vibrant political campaigns and very high voter turnouts, historians have depicted the nineteenth century as an era of intense and widespread political enthusiasm. But rarely have these historians examined popular political engagement directly, or within the broader contexts of day-to-day life. In this bold and in-depth look at Americans and their politics, Glenn Altschuler and Stuart Blumin argue for a more complex understanding of the "space" occupied by politics in nineteenth-century American society and culture. Mining such sources as diaries, letters, autobiographies, novels, cartoons, contested-election voter testimony to state legislative committees, and the partisan newspapers of representative American communities ranging from Massachusetts and Georgia to Texas and California, the authors explore a wide range of political actions and attitudes. They consider the enthusiastic commitment celebrated by historians together with various forms of skepticism, conflicted engagement, detachment, and hostility that rarely have been recognized as part of the American political landscape. Rude Republic sets the political parties and their noisy and attractive campaign spectacles, as well as the massive turnout of voters on election day, within the communal social structure and calendar, the local human landscape of farms, roads, and county towns, and the organizational capacities of emerging nineteenth-century institutions. Political action and engagement are set, too, within the tide of events: the construction of the mass-based party system, the gathering crisis over slavery and disunion, and the gradual expansion of government (and of cities) in the post-Civil War era. By placing the question of popular engagement within these broader social, cultural, and historical contexts, the authors bring new understanding to the complex trajectory of American democracy.
Author : Judith F. Stone
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887060236
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Search for Social Peace written by Judith F. Stone and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-08-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last one hundred years, programmatic social reform legislation has increasingly been accepted as an essential economic, social and political component of advanced capitalist nations. The Search for Social Peace investigates the reform movement in Francefrom its origins in the 1890s until the First World Warand details the struggle to end class conflict and achieve social peace. Who the reformers were, what they argued and how successful they were in fulfilling their promises are among the questions answered in The Search for Social Peace. Facing the pressures of an industrializing economy and the rise of an active, enfranchised working class, French reformers coalesced into a parliamentary force which, by 1910, could claim passage of a number of major reform laws. Judith Stone examines the results of this reform effort and demonstrates why legislation failed to alter deeply entrenched patterns in labor relations. Her study deepens our understanding of the social and political stalemate during the Third Republic. Social legislation, its cost and impact on the labor market and labor relations, is again the subject of intense debate. The current political climate makes all the more relevant the earlier reform effort, its supporters, their goals, their opponentsall of which are covered in this lucid work.
Author : Elizabeth MacLeod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781459828452
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Get Out and Vote! written by Elizabeth MacLeod and published by . This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the nonfiction Orca Think series for middle-grade readers, this illustrated book introduces readers to voting around the world and discusses why it matters, and challenges young people to exercise their democratic right to cast a ballot.
