Elections and Voters by Cees van der Eijk (University of Nottingham) and Mark N. Franklin (European University Institute Florence‚ Nuffield College Oxford‚ and Trinity College Connecticut) Draft of December 2008 189 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface [1‚147 words] iii Chapter 1: Why elections? [9‚663 words] 1 Chapter 2: Studying elections‚ parties and voters [15‚134 words] 23 Chapter 3: Electoral institutions [15‚831 words] 59 Chapter 4: Voters and parties [15‚972
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Voter predispositions‚ political naivety and persuasive advertising: voting is no longer based on policy and beliefs The effect that the media has on voters can be extremely diverse. From entirely formulating an opinion to strengthening an existing one‚ the media has the ability to do both but not to every type of individual. In order to understand how various citizens are influenced by media messages‚ Philip Converse et al. (1966) separated voters into three distinct groups: those with the highest
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and fund raising. However‚ there is an argument that there has been a participation crisis over the past years in the UK. A participation crisis is when less and less citizens take part in political activities; this can be shown in the decrease of voter turnout and the level of participation. On the other hand‚ there is an argument that there is in fact not a participation crisis because the turnout of voting is increasing and specific forms of participation are also on the rise. In this essay‚ I
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election cycle. The simplest solution to increase bipartisanship and improve upon representation within the US Supreme Court‚ with as little change as possible‚ is not to impose term limits for appointed justices‚ or to require justices to be elected by voters‚ but by requiring that close to half of the appointed justices be made up of members of the opposing party. This means out of the nine justices‚ four must be justices from the opposing
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those states and ignore the smaller states like Idaho who don’t have as many votes. This results in the smaller states feeling ignored‚ which results in a low voter turnout. For example‚ Iowa is a heavily campaigned state and its voter turnout is much higher than Utah at 69.6% while Utah’s is 59.6%. As you can see Iowa has a 10% higher voter turnout than Utah. By eliminating the college every state will be campaigned for and every state will be able to sway the
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Short Messages Service (SMS) has the potential to produce voting result with much greater accuracy than traditional paper-based voting system.it also has the potential to stimulate higher voter turnout by allowing electors to vote from their homes to anywhere with their mobile phones instead of channeling all voter participation through public polling sites. The voting system via “SMS” entails transparency
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they encounter any problems‚ and if after registering to vote they did end up voting. I felt it would be interesting because‚ during an election year‚ the youth vote is highly talked about and why the youth has the lowest turnout rate out of any voter age demographic. There are three types of data collection techniques‚ surveys‚ content analysis‚ and document analysis. Survey research‚ as defined by Johnson and Reynolds (2012)‚ “involves the collecting information via a questionnaire or survey
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confirming that not every individual votes. Voting faces both abstention and indulgence depending on the situations‚ interest or priority of the voter. To keep the moral of democracy it is very important to make ‘intelligent voting’ but at the same time very difficult to attain. Voters cannot be forced to vote so voting should be made easy to attract voters. 2. Methodology The voting methodology of voting in U.S. is ‘First-Past-the-Post’. That is voting and winning on the basis of maximum votes
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University of Fribourg Information Systems Research Group Seminar work on E-government Case Studies on E-Voting Students: Daniele Cavadini Lorenzo Cimasoni Professor: Dr. Andreas Meier Assistant: Nicolas Werro Autumn Semester 2007 2 Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Objective and problem definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Proceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Case Studies 2.1 E-Voting in Switzerland . . . . 2.1.1 Introduction . . . . .
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Benigno Aquino III on September last year but had come under fire for its vague definition of online libel‚ violation of personal rights‚ and tough legal penalties for Internet defamation. In this study‚ whether Cybercrime Law is for protection or suppression is analyzed‚ its advantages and disadvantages and its effects on not just the citizens but also the country is stated. The Impact of Republic Act 10175 or Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 on Filipino Citizens Web sites‚ e-mail‚ blogs‚ tweets‚
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