Author: Charles Edward MerriamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballot
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Non-voting Causes and Methods of Control
Author: Charles Edward MerriamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballot
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Non-voting, Causes and Methods of Control
Author: Charles Edward MerriamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballot
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Author: Securing the Vote
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030947647X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
During the 2016 presidential election, America's election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy examines the challenges arising out of the 2016 federal election, assesses current technology and standards for voting, and recommends steps that the federal government, state and local governments, election administrators, and vendors of voting technology should take to improve the security of election infrastructure. In doing so, the report provides a vision of voting that is more secure, accessible, reliable, and verifiable.
The Turn to Process
Author: Kunal M. ParkerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009335227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Explores the massive reorientation of American legal, political, and economic thinking from truths to methods between 1870 and 1970.
The Problem of Government
Author: Chester Collins MaxeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The American Nonvoter
Author: Lyn RagsdalePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190670711
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The American Nonvoter examines how uncertainty regarding the national context influences people's decisions whether to vote or not. During times of national crisis, when uncertainty is high, voting increases; during times of stability people stay home. Using rigorous statistical tools and rich historical stories, Lyn Ragsdale and Jerrold G. Rusk show how uncertainty in the national campaign context reduces nonvoting in presidential and midterm elections from 1920 to 2012.
Municipal Reference Library Notes
Author: The Journal of Electrical Workers and Operators
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric industry workers
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Images of Voting/Visions of Democracy
Author: Peter NatchezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351513524
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
When survey research, statistics, and electronic data processing were first introduced, they held out promise that a new level of political knowledge would be created. Applied to the study of voting behavior, survey research promised an understanding of the factors determining the outcome of an election, that political history could be based on rich and current data, and that we could begin to understand the role of elections in constitutional democracy. The truth as Peter B. Natchez shows, is that despite the opportunity provided by this revolution, voting studies have failed to make significant contributions to democratic theory or political history.The findings of voting studies have spread from the universities into the political system with a rather grim message. In its simplest form the message is this: the electorate does not measure up to the task thrust upon it by democracy. The studies conclude that voters choose candidates for reasons having little relevance to the success of the political system, and little relevance even to politics. Thus political science, in shifting from an optimistic focus on theory to a strong emphasis on empiricism, became a source of pessimism.One cannot study democracy or the democratic process without a point of view on democracy. The scientific method requires a point of view: science is not only a method for discovering reality, but for addressing well-structured questions. Natchez identifies goals for democracy, freedom and tolerance, and consciousness in decision making. Elections serve two functions; one, filling constitutional offices, and two, a symbolic function rooted in democratic experience that is more ambiguous, but no less vital as a part of regime analysis. A political science that connects these two aspects of voting will require an analysis of why voters vote the way they do to fill offices; but, more importantly, it will also require an understanding of the symbolic function of elections.