Download or read book Let s Get Third Parties on the Ballot written by Andrew Bushard and published by Free Press Media Press Inc.. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We cheer when third parties get on the ballot. We rejoice when third parties get on the ballot. We celebrate when third parties get on the ballot. When third parties get on the ballot, people get to vote for third parties. It rules when third parties get on the ballot. Thus Free Press Media Press Inc. has published "Let's Get Third Parties on the Ballot" to praise and discuss third party ballot access court cases. So when you get a chance, kindly read "Let's Get Third Parties on the Ballot". 26 pages; 25 poems.
Download or read book Oregon Blue Book written by Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Third Parties in America written by Steven J. Rosenstone and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-07 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Tables and Figures -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constraints on Third Parties -- 3. Third Parties of the Nineteenth Century -- 4. Independents of the Twentieth Century -- 5. A Theory of Third Party Voting -- 6. Why Citizens Vote for Third Parties -- 7. Candidate Mobilization -- 8. Major Parties, Minor Parties, and American Elections -- 9. H. Ross Perot -- Appendix A: Minor Party Presidential Candidates, 1840-1992 -- Appendix B: Description and Coding of Variables.
Download or read book Life of the Party Or Just a Third Wheel written by Daniel John Lee and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is two-party electoral competition influenced by third parties, even under normal political conditions? I argue that the mere threat of third party entry into the election induces anticipatory electoral strategies by the major parties. This effect, which is a normal aspect of the two-party system, is how third parties play a consistent role in U.S. elections. The ability for third parties to influence the major parties is moderated by electoral institutions. The ballot access requirement, in the form of a signature requirement, varies widely across House elections and is a significant predictor of third party electoral success. Consistent with conventional wisdom, I find that it has a negative effect on the likelihood of entry. Notably, the requirement also has a positive effect on third party vote shares, conditional on successful petitioning, due to a screening and quality effect. I explore the effects of third party threat in unidimensional and multidimensional settings. A formal model of elections predicts that the threat of entry induces major party divergence in a unidimensional ideological space. The major parties diverge in anticipation of potential third party entry. An empirical analysis of candidate positioning in the 1996 U.S. House elections finds support of this hypothesis. Data on major party campaign advertising in the 2000 to 2004 U.S. House elections are used to assess third party effects in a multidimensional framework. I show that third party threat influences the scope and content of campaign advertising. Major party candidates, particularly incumbents, discuss a broader range of issues when third party threat is higher. I use the case of environmental issues and the Green party to assess the influence of third parties on issue-specific content. I find that Green party threat leads to predictable differences between Democratic and Republican advertising on environmental issues. In sum, third parties play a consistent role in U.S. House elections by inducing anticipatory strategies by the major parties. This strategic framework for understanding third parties stresses two things. First, one should focus on the major parties in order to gauge the influence of third parties. Second, one should not conclude that third parties are irrelevant because of their minimal electoral success. Third party effects are in fact present even in elections where a third party does not enter.
Download or read book Protest Meets Process written by James Nelson (Political Scientist) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: Third party presidential candidates often attract a great deal of attention, but there are multitudes of non-major party candidates at lower levels seeking to influence American politics. The following analysis will examine the contextual and individual-level causes of third party/independent voting in U. S. House and Senate elections. It will assess as well the relative success or failure of non-major party candidates at the district or state level. Chapter 2 will examine the selection of non-major party candidates by individual voters, independent of context via logit models. The influence of voters' evaluations of major party candidates on whether they select a third party/independent U. S. House or Senate candidate will be of interest. The models specify as well other demographic and attitudinal indicators, including the intensity of a respondent's partisanship, to assess their impact on vote choice. Models of vote choice in presidential elections developed by Rosenstone, Behr, and Lazarus (1996) influenced the choice of variables in these models. Their theoretical argument, as well as the one used in the following analysis, employs Hirschmann's (1970) Exit, Voice and Loyalty framework. Voters are loyal to the two-party system if they select a major party candidate, they are able to voice their concerns within that system, and they exit the two-party system if they choose a non-major party candidate. This framework will help examine the behavior of voters and electorates throughout the analysis. The behavior of electorates will be the subject of Chapter 3, where the models will determine which districts or states allocate more votes to third party/independent candidates in U. S. House and Senate elections. These models will also include the recent success of third party candidates for the office in question and the percentage of the presidential vote in the current election allocated to third party/independent candidates in the district or state. This inclusion will facilitate the examination of whether some jurisdictions are more likely to vote for third party candidates because they are less aligned with the parties than are others. Some districts may be more likely to select these kinds of candidates because their overall partisan attachments are not as strong as those of other districts. The models will also include the percentage difference between the vote shares of the major party candidates in the current contest for the office. In accordance with Burden (2007), less third party/independent voting is expected to occur in closer elections. The causes of the availability of third party/independent candidates will also be examined via Heckman (1979) selection models which will include measures of the signature requirements for ballot access and previous vote percentages of third party candidates for the office in question and the presidency. The inclusion of these percentages assesses whether district demographics show possible candidates that third party candidates can get large percentages of the vote in the state/district. These models will include the demographics of the districts to measure whether large concentrations of groups associated with the New Deal alignment, such as senior citizens and union members, deter non-major party candidates from running. The multi-level analysis in Chapter 4 will examine individual-level and macro-level factors that make voters more likely to select third party candidates. Logit-link models will examine these attributes and their impact on voting behavior; logit-link models can take into account variables measured at the district/state level (i.e., the percentage difference between major party vote shares) and the individual level (i.e., respondents' evaluations of major party candidates), and evaluate their influence on individual vote choice. The models will include individual-level variables from Chapter 2, as well as some macro-level indicators. The individual variables in the logit-link models will include: the last third party vote percentage for the office being contested, the current or most recent third party/independent presidential vote percentage, and the percentage difference between the major party candidates in the current election. These variables are expected to send the signal to voters that exiting (Hirschmann 1970) the two-party system is a viable choice in their area. Context is expected to condition whether a voter chooses a candidate who is not aligned with the major parties, independent of individual preferences. In the analysis, a respondent's evaluations of major party candidates are a significant predictor of his/her vote choice in all of the models that use this measure of a respondent's preferences. Also, higher current or most recent third party/independent presidential vote percentages make respondents more likely to select non-major party candidates in all of the logit-link models that use this variable to predict vote choice. Candidate preferences are very strong determinants of individual vote choice, and larger percentages of third party presidential votes in a district/state make respondents much more likely to select third party legislative candidates.
Download or read book After the People Vote written by Norman J. Ornstein and published by A E I Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this popular guide examines how the electoral college and postelection processes work and includes a short history of contested elections.
Download or read book Let My People Vote written by Desmond Meade and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desmond Meade was chosen as a MacArthur Fellow in 2021 The inspiring and eye-opening true story of one man’s undying belief in the power of a fully enfranchised nation. “You may think the right to vote is a small matter, and if you do, I would bet you have never had it taken away from you.” Thus begins the story of Desmond Meade and his inspiring journey to restore voting rights to roughly 1.4 million returning citizens in Florida—resulting in a stunning victory in 2018 that enfranchised the most people at once in any single initiative since women’s suffrage. Let My People Vote is the deeply moving, personal story of Meade’s life, his political activism, and the movement he spearheaded to restore voting rights to returning citizens who had served their terms. Meade survived a tough childhood only to find himself with a felony conviction. Finding the strength to pull his life together, he graduated summa cum laude from college, graduated from law school, and married. But because of his conviction, he was not even allowed to sit for the bar exam in Florida. And when his wife ran for state office, he was filled with pride—but not permitted to vote for her. Meade takes us on a journey from his time in homeless shelters, to the exhilarating, joyful night in November of 2018, when Amendment 4 passed with 65 percent of the vote. Meade’s story, and his commitment to a fully enfranchised nation, will prove to readers that one person really can make a difference.
Download or read book LET S VOTE written by Daniel M. Shea and published by Pearson Higher Ed. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Debuting in its first edition, Let's Vote: The Essentials of the American Electoral Process, provides a timely account of the key features of the American electoral system. The text extends its coverage beyond parties-related topics to other election-centered issues, such as the role of the Internet in modern campaigning, the rise of new-style campaign consultants, the import of negative campaign advertising, and the rise of “new media."
Download or read book Federal Election Campaign Laws written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Parties or More written by John F Bibby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students of American government are faced with an enduring dilemma: Why two parties? Why has this system remained largely intact while around the world democracies support multiparty systems? Should our two-party system continue as we enter the new millennium? This newly revised and updated edition of Two Parties-Or More? answers these questions by
Download or read book Super PACs written by Louise I. Gerdes and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passage of Citizens United by the Supreme Court in 2010 sparked a renewed debate about campaign spending by large political action committees, or Super PACs. Its ruling said that it is okay for corporations and labor unions to spend as much as they want in advertising and other methods to convince people to vote for or against a candidate. This book provides a wide range of opinions on the issue. Includes primary and secondary sources from a variety of perspectives; eyewitnesses, scientific journals, government officials, and many others.
Download or read book Securing the Vote written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 2016 presidential election, America's election infrastructure was targeted by actors sponsored by the Russian government. Securing the Vote: Protecting American Democracy examines the challenges arising out of the 2016 federal election, assesses current technology and standards for voting, and recommends steps that the federal government, state and local governments, election administrators, and vendors of voting technology should take to improve the security of election infrastructure. In doing so, the report provides a vision of voting that is more secure, accessible, reliable, and verifiable.
Download or read book Let s Vote written by Anita Iaco and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's Vote! A Fruitful Election Tale is a children's politics and government book that helps young readers learn the value of voting in an election. Follow along as Miss Jenn uses three different fruits to help her students run their own in-class campaigns.
Download or read book The Parties Versus the People written by Mickey Edwards and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An urgent and engaging look at how American politics have become the founding fathers’ worst nightmare” (The Daily Beast). America’s political system is dysfunctional. We know it, yet the problem seems intractable—after every election, voters discover yet again that political “leaders” are simply quarreling in a never-ending battle between the two warring tribes. As a former congressman, Mickey Edwards witnessed firsthand how important legislative battles can devolve into struggles not over principle but over party advantage. He offers graphic examples of how this problem has intensified and reveals how political battles have become nothing more than conflicts between party machines. In this critically important book, he identifies exactly how our political and governing systems reward intransigence, discourage compromise, and undermine our democracy—and describes exactly what must be done to banish the negative effects of partisan warfare from our political system and renew American democracy. “Overcoming tribalism and knee-jerk partisanship is the central challenge of our time. Mickey Edwards shows why and how in this fascinating book filled with sensible suggestions.” —Walter Isaacson, New York Times–bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci “Many Americans, whether Democrats, Republicans, independent or otherwise, would welcome a few more like [Edwards] in office.” —The Boston Globe
Download or read book Let Us Vote written by Jennifer Frost and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age “Let Us Vote!” tells the story of the multifaceted endeavor to achieve youth voting rights in the United States. Over a thirty-year period starting during World War II, Americans, old and young, Democrat and Republican, in politics and culture, built a movement for the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution, which lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen in 1971. This was the last time that the United States significantly expanded voting rights. Jennifer Frost deftly illustrates how the political and social movements of the time brought together bipartisan groups to work tirelessly in pursuit of a lower voting age. In turn, she illuminates the process of achieving political change, with the convergence of “top-down” initiatives and “bottom-up” mobilization, coalition-building, and strategic flexibility. As she traces the progress toward achieving youth suffrage throughout the ’60s, Frost reveals how this movement built upon the social justice initiatives of the decade and was deeply indebted to the fight for African American civil and voting rights. 2021 marks the fiftieth anniversary of this important constitutional amendment and comes at a time when scrutiny of both voting age and voting rights has been renewed. As the national conversation around climate crisis, gun violence, and police brutality creates a new call for a lower voting age, “Let Us Vote!” provides an essential investigation of how this massive political change occurred, and how it could be brought about again.
Download or read book Breaking the Two party Doom Loop written by Lee Drutman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American democracy is in deep crisis. But what do we do about it? That depends on how we understand the current threat.In Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop, Lee Drutman argues that we now have, for the first time in American history, a genuine two-party system, with two fully-sorted, truly national parties, divided over the character of the nation. And it's a disaster. It's a party system fundamentally at odds withour anti-majoritarian, compromise-oriented governing institutions. It threatens the very foundations of fairness and shared values on which our democracy depends.Deftly weaving together history, democratic theory, and cutting-edge political science research, Drutman tells the story of how American politics became so toxic and why the country is now trapped in a doom loop of escalating two-party warfare from which there is only one escape: increase the numberof parties through electoral reform. As he shows, American politics was once stable because the two parties held within them multiple factions, which made it possible to assemble flexible majorities and kept the climate of political combat from overheating. But as conservative Southern Democrats andliberal Northeastern Republicans disappeared, partisan conflict flattened and pulled apart. Once the parties became fully nationalized - a long-germinating process that culminated in 2010 - toxic partisanship took over completely. With the two parties divided over competing visions of nationalidentity, Democrats and Republicans no longer see each other as opponents, but as enemies. And the more the conflict escalates, the shakier our democracy feels.Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop makes a compelling case for large scale electoral reform - importantly, reform not requiring a constitutional amendment - that would give America more parties, making American democracy more representative, more responsive, and ultimately more stable.
Download or read book Billionaires Ballot Bandits written by Greg Palast and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close presidential election in November could well come down to contested states or even districts--an election decided by vote theft? It could happen this year. Based on Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s investigative reporting for Rolling Stone and BBC television, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps might be the most important book published this year--one that could save the election. Billionaires & Ballot Bandits names the filthy-rich sugar-daddies who are super-funding the Super-PACs of both parties--billionaires with nicknames like "The Ice Man," "The Vulture" and, of course, The Brothers Koch. Told with Palast's no-holds-barred, reporter-on-the-beat style, the facts as he lays them out are staggering. What emerges in Billionaires & Ballot Bandits is the never-before-told-story of the epic battle being fought behind the scenes between the old money banking sector that still supports Obama, and the new hedge fund billionaires like Paul Singer who not only support Romney but also are among his key economic advisors. Although it has not been reported, Obama has shown some backbone in standing up to the financial excesses of the men behind Romney. Billionaires & Ballot Bandits exposes the previously unreported details on how operatives plan to use the hundreds of millions in Super-PAC money pouring into this election. We know the money is pouring in, but Palast shows us the convoluted ways the money will be used to suppress your vote. The story of the billionaires and why they want to buy an election is matched with the nine ways they can steal the election. His story of the sophisticated new trickery will pick up on Palast's giant New York Times bestseller, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
