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    percent of the total congress. In Texas they are only 3 congress women out of 35 congress delegates. The first woman to survey the House of Representatives was in 1917 and since 1991 it got tripled compared to the previous years. In 1992 female voter turnout was the highest and that year is called year of the women. But still the representation was so low that in 2011 women had their separate restrooms and by 2013 female senators got a bigger restrooms. Recent survey finds that women can equally represent

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    am in opposition to that. So many uneducated voters will vote‚ its considered taking our freedom away‚ and we really don’t need to worry as much about voting as about education. One objection to this argument is that the disadvantaged‚ the poor‚ the unemployed‚ and the uneducated are less likely to vote than then the other groups. We need to worry about whether voters will invest the time to learn which policies really serve the public because voters tend to vote for what they believe to be national

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    POLITICAL CAMPAIGN PLANNING MANUAL A STEP BY STEP GUIDE TO WINNING ELECTIONS By J. Brian O’Day National Democratic Institute for International Affairs POLITICAL CAMPAIGN PLANNING MANUAL PREFACE In preparation for the 1995 Russian Duma elections‚ NDI political trainers Ken Payne‚ Kate Head‚ and Sheila O’Connell‚ along with Russian experts Aleksei Shustov and Oleg Nikishenkov wrote the Strategic Election Planning Manual. This manual has been one of the most popular publications in the National

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    The Comparative case study Democracy as an ideology first originated in Athens‚ 5th Century BC; it sought to develop a government that met the needs of its people by listening to the people. It has since become the most sought after concept in political science‚ with popularity rising worldwide from the 1970’s through waves of post-war democratization. The increase in democratic regimes has led to complexity in defining the concept‚ variations in how it is applied‚ and differing levels of success

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    chaotic because of the riots outside of the convention center and fights within the convention halls. Humphrey tried to unite the party‚ but he could not. Senator George S. McGovern entered the race thinking he could get the votes of Kennedy‚ but most voters voted for Humphrey. Humphrey became the official candidate for the Democratic Party

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    A Practitioner’s Guide To Nudging Kim Ly‚ Nina Mažar‚ Min Zhao and Dilip Soman 15 March‚ 2013 Elizabeth Lyons and Julian House contributed research and analysis to this report. Research Report Series Behavioural Economics in Action Rotman School of Management University of Toronto ROTMAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT 2 Correspondence and Acknowledgements For questions and enquiries‚ please contact: Professor Dilip Soman Rotman School of Management University of Toronto 105

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    Comment And Opinion Community Health Centers in US Inner Cities: Additional Commentary By Aneez Esmail‚ University of Manchester Blacks and the 2008 Elections: A Preliminary Analysis By David A. Bositis‚ The Joint Center for Political and Economic Activities Miseducation and Racism by Marika Sherwood‚ c0-founder of the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA) Creating a Safe Learning Space for the Discussion of Multicultural Issues in the Classroom by Katherine M. Helm‚ Lewis University

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    Three Paradoxes of Democracy 1. Consent vs. effectiveness 2. Conflict vs. Consensus 3. Representation vs. Governability What’s effective may not be what is popular -economic policies are a good example – hyperinflation and other painful unpopular reforms -even in established democracies you are thinking about getting elected not long term policies Examples: • Free trade – job loss • Terrorism – loss of personal liberties • Deficit spending – people like low taxes but also like government

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    interest of the common man. during his presidency the property requirements to vote were repelled‚ allowing any qualified voter to participate‚ although the term “qualified voter” didn’t extend to african americans or women as they still couldn’t vote. Albeit white male citizens still rejoiced as this was far better than anything of the past or in any other nation as voter turnout reached as much as 80

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    Voters in many areas of the U.S. are apt to vote differently as a whole from election to election. The nation has also had a decreased turnout rate for the presidential and local elections. The South has typically not followed these patterns that the rest of has seemed to be following. The Southern whites of the U.S. have typically followed and voted for the more conservative candidate and party. Where as the Southern blacks have typically (when they have been able to vote) voted for the more liberal

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