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From:Humanist in Canada (Vol. 35, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor many years there have been occasional news items decrying the undemocratic Canadian voting system of "first past the post." Hubert O. Stehr's article "Our Voting System Needs Reform" (Humanist in Canada Spring 1991,...
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From:Arkansas Business and Economic Review (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedVarious factors which determine the decision of voters to vote for particular presidential candidates were examined. Economic factors and the so-called discomfort index help determine the voting patterns of 'undecided'...
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From:Parliamentary Affairs (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedUK women's voting patterns divide along generational lines, according to research analyzing UK voting during 1945-1992 and international voting patterns according to gender. Generational differences among female voters...
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From:Science (Vol. 294, Issue 5541) Peer-ReviewedSTEVEN J. BRAMS AND DUDLEY R. Herschbach are right about the defects in the plurality voting system used in most U.S. elections (Editorial, "The science of elections," 25 May, p. 1449). But, on both theoretical and...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPresidential election scholars have recently begun to explore whether vice presidential nominees have a meaningful influence on the presidential vote. Their findings are in conflict. Aggregate-level analyses find little...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 14, Issue 3)James Gimpel, Latinos and the 2002 Election: Republicans Do Well When Latinos Stay Home, Center for Immigration Studies, January 2003 (cis.org) As part of an effort to attract more Latino voters to the GOP, the Bush...
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From:Modern Physician (Vol. 4, Issue 3)Immediately following the New Hampshire primary, the American Association of Health Plans issued a statement saying that its poll was one of the few voter surveys to accurately predict Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.)...
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From:American Political Science Review (Vol. 94, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe report the results of a randomized field experiment involving approximately 30,000 registered voters in New Haven, Connecticut. Nonpartisan get-out-the-vote messages were conveyed through personal canvassing, direct...
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From:Stanford Law Review (Vol. 65, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION The law of democracy is a field in which line-drawing is often really important. Sometimes, the lines are literal ones, as with redistricting. (1) Sometimes, the lines are theoretical or doctrinal, as...
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From:American Political Science Review (Vol. 88, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe relationship between the increase of black voters within the Democratic Party and the decline of support from whites is found to be consistent with the power theory. According to the power theory, linkages between...
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From:Public Opinion Quarterly (Vol. 60, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1992 a record 14 women sought statewide office by running "as women" and as representatives of women. In this article we examine whether their appeals led to widespread voting on the basis of gender identity. We find...
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From:The Social Science Journal (Vol. 35, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
The electoral consequences of alienation: nonvoting and protest voting in the 1992 presidential race
This article focuses on the context of the 1992 national elections in order to determine why certain alienated individuals chose to stay home on election day while others responded by voting for a third party... -
From:Social Forces (Vol. 77, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe ability of conservative Christian political organizations to influence local and national political races seems remarkable - made possible through mass distribution of voter guides, magazines, radio advertisement,...
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From:PS: Political Science & Politics (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCandidates covet votes. They exert extraordinary effort and expend vast resources seeking to win as many votes as possible. Yet, the costly pursuit of votes occurs under great uncertainty concerning both the strategic...
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From:Presidential Studies Quarterly (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe conventional wisdom among students of elections is that the choices of voters are largely driven by powerful forces that have lasting effects from one election to the next-enduring political orientations and...
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From:Social Research (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVoters with specific characteristics accomplished the switch from right-wing to leftist politics in the 1994 elections in Hungary. This victory of the communist party was a result of general disillusionment following an...
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From:Stanford Law Review (Vol. 68, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedConclusion It is difficult to applaud democratic values when up to one-fifth of the electorate has problems voting. This gap is indicative of what we in other arenas have termed "first generation" problems in voting...
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From:Journal of East Asian Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCommunication networks play an important role in the process of political socialization. This article, based on Taiwan's 2002 Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral election data, investigates the extent to which political...
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From:Parliamentary Affairs (Vol. 47, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe two-party system of the UK has been consistent since 1945 in terms of a dearth of third parties and the ability of either Labor or the Conservatives to hold a real majority in Parliament. Electoral changes over the...
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From:Latin American Research Review (Vol. 46, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe index of electoral volatility has been used as the principal indicators of institutionalization of party systems in recently democratic countries. However, comparative studies usually analyze the index at a highly...