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This book by Johanna Schwolow provides an in-depth analysis of the feasibility and implications of electronic voting for the German Bundestag elections. It explores the concept of electronic voting, its various forms, and the legal and technical challenges associated with its implementation. The book critically examines the potential impact on voter participation across different demographic groups and addresses concerns related to IT security and the accessibility of voting software. Aimed at practitioners and researchers in political science and technology, the book offers insights into the modernization of electoral processes while ensuring democratic principles such as equality, freedom, and secrecy of the vote.
Electronic voting. --- Elections. --- Electronic voting --- Elections
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As the confusion over the ballots in Florida recently demonstrated, American elections are complex and anything but user-friendly. This has led to a decline in voter turnout. In this text Wattenberg confronts the question of what low participation rates means for democracy.
Elections --- Voting --- Political parties
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"In many established democracies, vote choices are growing more volatile over time. This book assesses how changes in voters' decision making process have contributed to this change. The first part of the book examines the evidence for the claim that the increase in volatility results from a shift in weight from long-term to more short-term determinants of the vote choice. This overview and the analyses that are presented highlight the limitations of existing theories of electoral change and call for novel explanations for voter volatility"--
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Les commentaires des résultats des scrutins municipaux de 2020 ont mis l'accent sur une « vague verte » souvent expliquée en termes de « vote bobo », ce qui n'a rien d'inédit ni de surprenant au regard de l'état du débat public français. À rebours de ces interprétations médiatiques, ce livre propose de faire un pas de côté et de penser sur d'autres bases analytiques les changements sociologiques et leurs effets électoraux au coeur des villes françaises, en croisant pour cela les apports du champ des études électorales et ceux du champ des études urbaines. En mobilisant l'échelle fine et inédite des bureaux de vote, l'auteur propose en effet une exploration des configurations électorales intra-urbaines, et tente de les comprendre en lien avec les transformations de la géographie sociale et de la sociologie urbaine des quartiers (embourgeoisement, gentrification, paupérisation, etc.).
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"Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask--or require--every American to vote? E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active disenfranchisement of a large share of our citizens. And it would create a system true to the Declaration of Independence's aspirations by calling for a government based on the consent of all of the governed."--Amazon.com.
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"This book analyses parties beyond the national borders and their increasing institutionalization abroad, in order to understand their development, their organisational specificities, their functions, and their impact on the party system and national politics at home. With 12 contrasted case studies, it comparatively addresses a wide range of perspectives on political parties abroad and lays the foundation for a framework of analysis of political parties abroad, contributing to a better understanding of transnationalism and long-distance democracy. The generalisation of overseas voting and the development of representative institutions for emigrants has transformed the civic and political links between states and their diaspora. This has also created new opportunities for political parties, with the task to reach out to citizens living abroad, mobilize them for elections, and even organize their representation at home. This book represents the first in-depth study of an emerging phenomenon. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of political parties/party politics, immigration, and more broadly to democracy studies and comparative politics"--
Political parties --- Transnationalism --- Comparative government --- Voting --- Comparative government. --- Case studies. --- Political parties - Case studies --- Transnationalism - Case studies --- Voting - Case studies
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This book examines the process of electoral reform in the Bahamas during the 20th century in the broader context of decolonisation. Beginning with the General Assembly Elections Act of 1919, which reaffirmed a franchise limited to propertied men, milestones include the introduction of voting by secret ballot between 1939 and 1946, universal adult male suffrage in 1959, women's suffrage in 1961, and the incremental abolition of plural voting between 1959 and 1969.
Suffrage --- Election law --- Elections --- Electoral law --- Law, Election --- Constitutional law --- Franchise --- Right to vote --- Voting rights --- Political rights --- Plebiscite --- Representative government and representation --- Voting --- Law and legislation
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Voting age --- Law and legislation. --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Election law
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While ethnic identities are found to play a key role in politics, not all members of a group toe their group's line and vote for its affiliated party. Why do some voters choose not to vote with their group when doing so can often be advantageous given the norms of ethnic favoritism observed across Africa? According to Afrobarometer data, between 30% and 52% of voters in sub-Saharan Africa do not vote for their ethnic group's party. This book argues that as individuals are less readily identified as members of their ethnic group, they are less likely to be treated as if they are members of that group, which in turn weakens their identification with the group.
Ethnicity --- Political participation --- Political aspects. --- Identity politics --- Voting --- Race --- Group identity --- Social aspects --- Political aspects
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This open access book is the first monograph that brings together insights from comparative politics, political sociology, and migration studies to introduce the current state of knowledge on external voting and transnational politics. Drawing on new data gathered within the DIASPOlitic project, which created a comparative dataset of external voting results for 6 countries of origin and 17 countries of residence as well as an extensive qualitative dataset of 80 in-depth interviews with four groups of migrants, this book not only illustrates theoretical problems with empirical material, but also provides answers to previously unaddressed questions. The empirical material focuses on the European context. The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (2004-2007) triggered a westward wave of migration from Central and Eastern European countries which faced the expansion of existing émigré communities and the emergence of new ones. As this process coincided with the expansion of migrant voting rights, the result is a large set of populous diaspora communities which can potentially have a significant impact on country electoral politics, making the study of external voting highly relevant. This book’s introduction takes stock of current research on transnational politics and external voting, presenting core puzzles. The following chapter introduces the context of intra-European migration and the political situation in Central-Eastern European sending countries. The next two sections address the empirical puzzles, drawing on new quantitative and qualitative. The conclusion takes stock of the evidence gathered, discusses the normative problem of non-resident voters enfranchisement, connects external voting to the broader debate on political remittances and finally, maps the terrain ahead for future research. This concise, empirically grounded introduction to external voting is critical reading in structuring the debate around migration and shaping research agendas for the future.
Migration, immigration & emigration --- Sociology --- Elections & referenda --- External Voting --- Electoral Behavior --- Migration --- Diasporas --- Transnational Politics --- Central Europe
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