American Democracy Now, 2nd Edition (Harrison)Chapter 9:
Elections, Campaigns, and VotingChapter Outline
- Political Participation: Engaging Individuals, Shaping Polities
- Elections in the United States
- Nominations and Primary Elections
- Types of Primary Elections
- Presidential Primaries
- General Elections
- Referendum, Initiative, and Recall
- The Act of Voting
- The 2000 Election and Its Impact
- Types of Ballots
- Why Ballot Design Matters
- Voting by Mail
- Running for Office: The Choice to Run
- Formal Eligibility Requirements
- Informal Eligibility Requirements
- The Nature of Campaigns Today
- The Professionalization of Political Campaigns
- Media and New Technologies: Transforming Political Campaigns
- Personality versus Policy
- Revolutionizing the Campaign: New Technologies
- Regulating Federal Campaign Contributions
- Regulatory Loopholes: Independent Expenditures
- Regulatory Loopholes: Soft Money
- The Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002
- Regulatory Loophole: 527s
- The Growth of PACs
- Presidential Campaigns
- Party Conventions and the General Election Campaign
- The Electoral College
- Who Votes? Factors in Voter Participation
- Education Level—the Number One Predictor of Voting
- The Age Factor
- Race and Voter Participation
- Income—a Reliable Predictor of Voting
- Party Competitiveness and Voter Turnout
- How Voters Decide
- Major Factors in Voter Decision Making
- Campaign Influences on Voter Choice
- Why Some People Do Not Vote
- Lack of Efficacy
- Voter Fatigue and Negative Campaigns
- The Structure of Elections
- The Rational Abstention Thesis
- The Impact of Nonvoting
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