Beyond The Ballot Box

Author : Alfred B. Cudjoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Elections
ISBN : 9988173962

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Author : Douglas J. Amy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313002458

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Behind the Ballot Box by Douglas J. Amy Pdf

Interest in voting systems and voting system reform is growing in the United States. Voting systems—the procedures by which we cast votes and elect our public officials—are a crucial part of the democratic election process. The decision to use one kind of voting system rather than another has far-reaching political consequences. Among other things, voting systems help to determine which officials are elected to run our governments, the variety of parties that voters have to choose from at the polls, whether political minorities can win any representation, and whether the majority will rule. Amy gives readers all the information and analytical tools needed to make intelligent choices among voting systems. He provides a set of political criteria that can be used to judge voting systems and gives detailed descriptions of all the common voting systems used in the United States and other Western democracies, including winner-take-all systems as well as proportional representation systems. He also provides an analysis of the various political advantages and disadvantages associated with each type of system. This is an important guide for citizens, government officials, political activists, students, and anyone who wants to learn more about voting systems and their political implications.

Author : Usman Khan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135359256

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Participation Beyond the Ballot Box by Usman Khan Pdf

Participation Beyond the Ballot Box is a welcome addition to the literature on democracy and the role of civil society. It demonstrates that new mechanisms being introduced in Western Europe can and do offer the potential to significantly strengthen the democratic process.

Author : Christian Schafferer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0739104810

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The Power of the Ballot Box by Christian Schafferer Pdf

The Power of the Ballot Box analyzes the impact on Taiwanese politics of the "Third Wave" of democratization that swept across East Asia in the last decades of the twentieth century. Christian Schafferer's work looks beyond regional and global causes to pinpoint the true indigenous foundations of Taiwan's--and on a broader scale East Asia's--political development, and examines the pivotal importance of Taiwanese local elections in the island's democratization process. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with leading Taiwanese politicians and political scientists, the book provides a detailed history of Taiwan's electoral experience from the turn of the twentieth century, through the Kuomintang regime, to the present day. This is supplemented by a focused case study of the watershed 1997 Taiwanese local elections and their profound impact on the Taiwanese political landscape.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:874256219

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Lightweights? Political Participation Beyond the Ballot Box by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bev Harris
Publisher : Talion Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Contested elections
ISBN : UOM:39015059136021

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Black Box Voting by Bev Harris Pdf

The definitive expose on electronic voting. 328 footnotes. Over 100 cases documented where voting machines miscounted elections, internal memos, details about the source code and programming that controls voting machines used worldwide.

Author : Joan Woodman,Pat Burge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991*
Category : Coleambally Irrigation Area (N.S.W.)
ISBN : 0646055623

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Beyond the Ballot Box, Coleambally by Joan Woodman,Pat Burge Pdf

Author : Dov H. Levin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197519912

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Meddling in the Ballot Box by Dov H. Levin Pdf

Why do world powers sometimes try to determine who wins an election in another country? What effects does such meddling have on the targeted elections results? Great powers have attempted for centuries to intervene in elections occurring in other states through various covert and overt methods, with the American intervention in the 2013 Kenyan elections and the Russian intervention in the 2016 US elections being just two recent examples. Indeed, the Americans and the Soviets/Russians intervened in one out of every nine national-level executive elections between 1946 and 2000. Meddling in the Ballot Box is the first book to provide a comprehensive analysis of foreign meddling in elections from the dawn of the modern era to the 2016 Russian intervention in the US election. Dov Levin shows that partisan electoral interventions are usually an "inside job" occurring only if a significant domestic actor within the target wants it. Likewise, a great power will not intervene unless it fears that its interests are endangered by an opposing party or candidate with very different preferences. He also finds that partisan electoral interventions frequently have significant effects on the results--sufficient in many situations to determine the winner. Such interference also tends to be more effective when it is conducted overtly. However, it is usually ineffective, if not counterproductive, when done in a founding election. A revelatory account that explains why major powers have meddled so frequently across the entire postwar era, Meddling in the Ballot Box also provides us with a framework for assessing the cyber-future of interference.

Author : Erik J. Engstrom,Jason M. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108842808

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The Politics of Ballot Design by Erik J. Engstrom,Jason M. Roberts Pdf

Physical features of ballots vary considerably across the US. This book shows how politicians use ballot design to influence voting.

Author : Ari Berman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374711498

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Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman Pdf

A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2015 A Boston Globe Best Book of 2015 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2015 An NPR Best Book of 2015 Countless books have been written about the civil rights movement, but far less attention has been paid to what happened after the dramatic passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) in 1965 and the turbulent forces it unleashed. Give Us the Ballot tells this story for the first time. In this groundbreaking narrative history, Ari Berman charts both the transformation of American democracy under the VRA and the counterrevolution that has sought to limit voting rights, from 1965 to the present day. The act enfranchised millions of Americans and is widely regarded as the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. And yet, fifty years later, we are still fighting heated battles over race, representation, and political power, with lawmakers devising new strategies to keep minorities out of the voting booth and with the Supreme Court declaring a key part of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional. Berman brings the struggle over voting rights to life through meticulous archival research, in-depth interviews with major figures in the debate, and incisive on-the-ground reporting. In vivid prose, he takes the reader from the demonstrations of the civil rights era to the halls of Congress to the chambers of the Supreme Court. At this important moment in history, Give Us the Ballot provides new insight into one of the most vital political and civil rights issues of our time.

Author : Valerie A. Lemmie,National Academy of Public Administration,Charles F. Kettering Foundation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0923993266

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Democracy Beyond the Ballot Box by Valerie A. Lemmie,National Academy of Public Administration,Charles F. Kettering Foundation Pdf

While the council-manager plan is the dominant model of city management in the United States today, the author, an experienced city manager, maintains that "the roles of city managers and elected officials need to be radically reshaped." In this paper, she makes the case for making citizen engagement a central component of the governing process.

Author : Amy L. Stone
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Constitutional amendments
ISBN : 9780816675470

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Gay Rights at the Ballot Box by Amy L. Stone Pdf

From Boulder in 1974 to Maine Question 1 in 2009, the first comprehensive history of the LGBT movement's fight against anti-gay ballot measures

Author : Teresia Rindefjäll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Democratization
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114738870

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Democracy Beyond the Ballot Box by Teresia Rindefjäll Pdf

Author : Dennis P. Ryan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000506729

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Beyond the Ballot Box by Dennis P. Ryan Pdf

Author : Eric Thomas Chester
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015013283026

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Socialists and the Ballot Box by Eric Thomas Chester Pdf