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Chapter 13

Chapter 13. Voter Behavior. Conventional Participation Unconventional Participation Voter turnout. Patterns in Voter Turnout. Education Income Worldwide Age Students Gender Race and ethnicity Interest in Politics. Why is voter turnout so low?. “Too busy” Difficulty of registration

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Chapter 13

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  1. Chapter 13

  2. Voter Behavior • Conventional Participation • Unconventional Participation • Voter turnout

  3. Patterns in Voter Turnout • Education • Income • Worldwide • Age • Students • Gender • Race and ethnicity • Interest in Politics

  4. Why is voter turnout so low? • “Too busy” • Difficulty of registration • Difficulty of absentee voting • Number of elections • Voter attitudes • Weakened influence of political parties

  5. Efforts to Improve Voter Turnout • Easier registration and absentee voting • Make election day a holiday • Strengthen parties • Other suggestions

  6. Patterns in Vote Choice • Party identification • Ticket splitting • Race and ethnicity • Gender • Income • Ideology • Issues

  7. Elections in the United States • Purposes of elections • Legitimacy • Electorate • Mandate

  8. Types of Elections • Primary elections • Direct Primary – Legacy of the Progressive Era • Open v. Closed Primaries • Primaries and Caucuses • Primary Scheduling issues • Frontloading • General elections • Initiative, referendum, recall

  9. Presidential Elections • State level decisions by parties • Primaries and caucuses • Party Conventions • Delegate selection • National candidates and issues • Party Platform • News media

  10. Electoral College • How it works • History/origins • Nineteenth century • Twentieth and twenty-first centuries • Reapportionment • Electoral College reconsidered

  11. Congressional Elections • Incumbency advantage • Staff support • Media and travel • “Scare-off” effect Redistricting • Reapportionment – redistricting • Gerrymandering

  12. Redistricting in “Square State” • 12 Congressional districts; 7 Red Party and 5 Blue Party • State Legislature is dominated by the Blue Party • New census results reduces number of Congressional Districts to 10 • Task: Redraw the map. • Remember to consider electoral politics and the minority vote Big City 4 Big City 2 Big City 3 Big City 1

  13. Countervailing Forces to Incumbency advantage • Redistricting • Scandals • Coattail effect

  14. Midterm Elections • Historically • 2006 Midterm elections • Presidential v Midterm elections: voter turnout

  15. Reforming the Electoral Process • Legitimacy • Regional primaries • Campaign finance reform • Protecting the electoral process • Online voting • Voting by mail • Modernizing the ballot

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