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Election Day is just around the corner. We must make a thoughtful, informed decision soon. There are clearly some risks. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are working hard to introduce themselves to the ...
Transportation access can have a major impact on voting behavior. Nearly half of eligible voters didn't cast a ballot in 2020, and more than 780,000 directly cited "transportation problems" as ...
Voting behavior refers to how people decide how to vote. [1] This decision is shaped by a complex interplay between an individual voter's attitudes as well as social factors. [ 1 ] Voter attitudes include characteristics such as ideological predisposition , party identity , degree of satisfaction with the existing government, public policy ...
Still, recent Democratic electoral success and some preliminary early voting in Michigan offer Harris hope of pulling it off. Two years ago, the party flipped the Legislature to give Democrats a ...
The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1870 gave African American men the right to vote. The first record of a black man voting after the amendment's adoption was when Thomas Mundy Peterson cast his vote on March 31, 1870 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey in a referendum election, adopting a revised city charter. [19]
The John Lewis voting rights act would restore the federal pre-clearance requirement in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that was struck down by the Supreme Court in a 2013 decision. This would mean that states with a history of voting rights violations would have to seek approval from the federal government to change voting policies.
A 2018 study in the American Political Science Review found that the parents to newly enfranchised voters "become 2.8 percentage points more likely to vote." [126] A 2018 study in the journal Political Behavior found that increasing the size of households increases a household member's propensity to vote. [127]
Issue Yield theory was first presented in an article that appeared in the American Political Science Review in 2014; [1] a simpler presentation (also framing the theory vis-à-vis other theoretical frameworks on the topic) was later published as an entry of the Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behaviour and Public Opinion. [2]