Turnout

Author : Megan Abbott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593084915

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The Turnout by Megan Abbott Pdf

"Impossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic. It’s ‘Whatever Happened to Baby Jane’ in ballet shoes." —Stephen King Best Book of the Year NPR • Wall Street Journal • Boston Globe • Library Journal • CrimeReads • LitReactor • Air Mail Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick An Instant New York Times Bestseller New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's exquisite and disquieting new novel, “dark and juicy and tinged with horror” (The New York Times Books Review), set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. After their parents' death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. Marie, warm and soft, teaches the younger students; Dara, with her precision, trains the older ones; and Charlie, sidelined from dancing after years of injuries, rules over the back office. Circling around one another, the three have perfected a dance, six days a week, that keeps the studio thriving. But when a suspicious accident occurs, just at the onset of the school's annual performance of The Nutcracker—a season of competition, anxiety, and exhilaration—an interloper arrives and threatens the sisters' delicate balance. Taut and unnerving, The Turnout is Megan Abbott at the height of her game. With uncanny insight and hypnotic writing, it is a sharp and strange dissection of family ties and sexuality, femininity and power, and a tale that is both alarming and irresistible.

Author : Bernard L. Fraga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108475198

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The Turnout Gap by Bernard L. Fraga Pdf

Persistent racial/ethnic gaps in voter turnout produce elections that are increasingly unrepresentative of the wishes of all Americans.

Author : Meredith Rolfe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107015418

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Voter Turnout by Meredith Rolfe Pdf

This book combines positive political theory, social network research and computational modeling, explaining why some people are more likely to vote than others.

Author : Charles Derber,Suren Moodliar,Matt Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000072563

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Turnout! by Charles Derber,Suren Moodliar,Matt Nelson Pdf

Turnout! offers strategies for "emergency elections," like the 2020 races, and addresses the nuts-and-bolts for civic groups and individuals to effectively turn out the vote. Indeed, few elections in recent history represent the kind of apocalyptic turning point for our planet and democracy as the present one. Turnout! is both a creative work of political vision combined with a detailed manual for turning out millions of new voters. Participation at local, state, and federal levels will have an outsized impact on the future of democracy and life itself. The elections also provide an opportunity to power-up social movements that can re-frame and re-define civic participation in an age of extreme inequality, climate change, and pandemics. Contributors include powerful movement leaders Maria Teresa Kumar (Voto Latino), Aimee Allison (She the People), Winona LaDuke (Honor the Earth), and Matt Nelson (Presente.org); leading public officials advocating greater voter engagement like Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and Wisconsin Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, and councilors Helen Gym and Nikki Fortunato Bas. Turnout! reveals strategies and real-world tactics to mobilize millions of discouraged, apathetic, or suppressed voters, including women, low-income, Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, LGBTQIA+, student and youth, and working-class voters.

Author : Donald P. Green,Alan S. Gerber
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815732662

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Get Out the Vote by Donald P. Green,Alan S. Gerber Pdf

The first edition of Get Out the Vote! broke ground by introducing a new scientific approach to the challenge of voter mobilization and profoundly influenced how campaigns operate. In this expanded and updated edition, the authors incorporate data from more than one hundred new studies, which shed new light on the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of various campaign tactics, including door-to-door canvassing, e-mail, direct mail, and telephone calls. Two new chapters focus on the effectiveness of mass media campaigns and events such as candidate forums and Election Day festivals. Available in time for the core of the 2008 presidential campaign, this practical guide on voter mobilization is sure to be an important resource for consultants, candidates, and grassroots organizations. Praise for the first edition: "Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber have studied turnout for years. Their findings, based on dozens of controlled experiments done as part of actual campaigns, are summarized in a slim and readable new book called Get Out the Vote!, which is bound to become a bible for politicians and activists of all stripes." —Alan B. Kreuger, in the New York Times "Get Out the Vote! shatters conventional wisdom about GOTV." —Hal Malchow in Campaigns & Elections "Green and Gerber's recent book represents important innovations in the study of turnout."—Political Science Review "Green and Gerber have provided a valuable resource for grassroots campaigns across the spectrum."—National Journal

Author : David Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429981975

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American Voter Turnout by David Hill Pdf

Using a combination of existing and original research, this new text provides a simple explanation for the low turnout in American elections: rather than creating an environment conducive to participation, the institutional arrangements that govern structure participation, representation, and actual governance in the United States create an environment that discourages widespread participation. To explore this argument, the author examines the origins and development of registration laws, single-member districts, such as the Electoral College, and the separation of powers and the impact these institutions have on turnout levels in American national elections. To this end, the text employs a narrative discussing the impact of institutions on turnout in the United States and across nations, supported with extensive yet accessible data analysis. Hill not only provides students with explanations for the low turnout characteristic of American elections, but also demonstrates the powerful impact of institutions on political life.

Author : Daron R. Shaw,John R. Petrocik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190089450

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The Turnout Myth by Daron R. Shaw,John R. Petrocik Pdf

When voter turnout is high, Democrats have an advantage - or so the truism goes. But, it is true? In The Turnout Myth, Daron Shaw and John Petrocik refute the widely held convention that high voter participation benefits Democrats while low involvement helps Republicans. The authors examineover 50 years of presidential, gubernatorial, Senatorial, and House election data to show that there is no consistent partisan effect associated with voter turnout in national elections. Instead, less-engaged citizens' responses to short-term forces - candidate appeal, issues, scandals, and the like- determine election turnout. Moreover, Republican and Democratic candidates are equally affected by short-term forces. The consistency of these effects suggests that partisan conflict over eligibility, registration, and voting rules and regulations is less important for election outcomes than bothsides seem to believe. Featuring powerful evidence and analytical acumen, this book provides a new foundation for thinking about U.S. elections.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Absentee voting
ISBN : STANFORD:36105127373855

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Voting: Some Procedural Changes and Informational Activities Could Increase Turnout by Anonim Pdf

Author : John B. Holbein,D. Sunshine Hillygus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108488426

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Making Young Voters by John B. Holbein,D. Sunshine Hillygus Pdf

The solution to youth voter turnout requires focus on helping young people follow through on their political interests and intentions.

Author : Mark N. Franklin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521541476

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Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies Since 1945 by Mark N. Franklin Pdf

Voting is a habit. People learn the habit of voting, or not, based on experience in their first few elections. Elections that do not stimulate high turnout among young adults leave a 'footprint' of low turnout in the age structure of the electorate as many individuals who were new at those elections fail to vote at subsequent elections. Elections that stimulate high turnout leave a high turnout footprint. So a country's turnout history provides a baseline for current turnout that is largely set, except for young adults. This baseline shifts as older generations leave the electorate and as changes in political and institutional circumstances affect the turnout of new generations. Among the changes that have affected turnout in recent years, the lowering of the voting age in most established democracies has been particularly important in creating a low turnout footprint that has grown with each election.

Author : Shane P. Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198832928

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Beyond Turnout by Shane P. Singh Pdf

Beyond Turnout crafts a new theory that considers the downstream consequences of compulsory voting for both citizens and political parties. This theory is comprehensively tested through data from dozens of countries, with a particular focus on Argentina and Switzerland.

Author : Sarah F. Anzia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226086958

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Timing & Turnout by Sarah F. Anzia Pdf

Public policy in the United States is the product of decisions made by more than 500,000 elected officials, and the vast majority of those officials are elected on days other than Election Day. And because far fewer voters turn out for off-cycle elections, that means the majority of officials in America are elected by a politically motivated minority of Americans. Sarah F. Anzia is the first to systemically address the effects of election timing on political outcomes, and her findings are eye-opening. The low turnout for off-cycle elections, Anzia argues, increases the influence of organized interest groups like teachers’ unions and municipal workers. While such groups tend to vote at high rates regardless of when the election is held, the low turnout in off-cycle years enhances the effectiveness of their mobilization efforts and makes them a proportionately larger bloc. Throughout American history, the issue of election timing has been a contentious one. Anzia’s book traces efforts by interest groups and political parties to change the timing of elections to their advantage, resulting in the electoral structures we have today. Ultimately, what might seem at first glance to be mundane matters of scheduling are better understood as tactics designed to distribute political power, determining who has an advantage in the electoral process and who will control government at the municipal, county, and state levels.

Author : Richard Fremont Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015035856379

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Influence of Voter Turnout on School Bond and Tax Elections by Richard Fremont Carter Pdf

Author : James Wesley Ball
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Water-meters
ISBN : UCR:31210024970376

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Study of the Effects of Turnout Design on Registration Accuracy of Propeller Meters Placed in Downstream Ends of Turnout Pipes by James Wesley Ball Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Voter turnout
ISBN : UCSD:31822017203498

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Studies in the Measurement of Voter Turnout by Anonim Pdf

This publication includes three papers which explain different aspects of measuring voter behavior. The studies indicate that there is a socioeconomic component to overestimating voter turnout, as well as survey design and weighting effects.