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Economic issues, compared to traditional values, were the main drivers of their vote. Moreover, the working class are not the only group to switch party allegiances — affluent voters have as well.
Rev. Robert L. Montgomery writes that the No. 1 principle of democracy is "loyal opposition," working out differences through debate and voting.
Advocates and academics have long demonstrated the relationship between police violence and efforts to deny the vote. Democracy demands: Make a filibuster exception to stop police violence and ...
Cutting across all aspects of relationship between government and public opinion are studies of voting behavior. These have registered the distribution of opinions on a wide variety of issues, have explored the impact of special interest groups on election outcomes and have contributed to our knowledge about the effects of government propaganda ...
However, according to political scientist Eric Kramon, vote buying is not necessarily detrimental to the quality of democracy; rather, the relationship between vote buying and the quality of democracy is far more nuanced. [1] Another noted consequence is that the autonomy of voters is undermined.
A free and fair election is defined as an election in which "coercion is comparatively uncommon". This definition was popularized by political scientist Robert Dahl.A free and fair election involves political freedoms and fair processes leading up to the vote, a fair count of eligible voters who cast a ballot, a lack of electoral fraud or voter suppression, and acceptance of election results ...
The correlation between presidential and Senate votes has increased significantly over the past few decades, with Democrats outperforming their presidential nominee by 9 points in 1984 and only 1. ...
The voting paradox, for example, points out that it cannot be in a citizen's self-interest to vote because the effort it takes to vote will almost always outweigh the benefits of voting, particularly considering a single vote is unlikely to change an electoral outcome. Political scientists instead propose that citizens vote for psychological or ...