Election Festivals and Voter Turnout: An Overview of Recent Research

Green, Donald P.; McClellan, Oliver A.

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“…Another significant aspect of fostering a culture of engagement comes in the form of celebrations modeled after voting festivals (Addonizio, Green, and Glaser 2007; Green and McClellan 2020). Through initiatives such as Campus Takeover (which supports annual mobilizations for National Voter Registration Day, National Voter Education Week, and Vote Early Day), the SLSV Coalition and partners help colleges engage in voting-focused celebrations that help ingrain voting and civic engagement into campus culture.…”

Section: Beyond Gotv Tactics and Experiments: Creating A Campus Cultu...mentioning

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Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next

Bennion,

Michelson

2023

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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In the U.S., we have historically looked to our educators to prepare citizens for full participation in our democracy as engaged and informed voters. We examine the student voting movement that has taken root in colleges and universities across the country—a movement that offers a promising way forward in forming a new generation of engaged citizens. We detail what we know about how to increase student turnout, suggest ways to strengthen voter mobilization efforts through a broader civic education agenda, chart a path forward for future research, and offer recommendations for college administrators who seek to make voting a lifelong habit for their students. We also look beyond the student voting movement to argue for new forms of pedagogy that foster civic identity so that students think of themselves as voters who always vote, because voting is a necessary way to express themselves as engaged citizens.

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confidence: 99%

Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next

Bennion,

Michelson

2023

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Nonprofit Messaging and the 2020 Election: Findings from a Nonpartisan Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) Field Experiment

LeRoux

Langer

Plotner

2022

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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A distinct problem for American democracy is that voter participation rates remain higher among older, wealthier, and more highly educated citizens. Through their nonpartisan get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts, nonprofit organizations can help to remedy the participation gap, promoting higher turnout among under-represented voters. However, the literature reveals mixed evidence with regard to message content and its impact on turnout, and there is even less clarity about whether the method of message delivery matters for turnout. We find that nonprofit voter mobilization efforts are statistically linked to increased turnout, the odds of which increase when efforts center specifically on voter registration. While we find no overall effect of either message type (political efficacy vs. policy issue: immigration) or method of delivery (text vs. postcard) on voting behavior, the results show that there is a significant crossover interaction with political efficacy messages sent by text yielding the highest turnout.

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Big Data Analytics and How to Buy an Election

Sønderholm¹,

Mainz²,

Uhrenfeldt³

2021

Public Affairs Quarterly

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We show how to lawfully buy an election. The key things that make it possible to buy an election are the existence of public voter registration lists and the existence of Big Data Analytics that can predict how a given elector will vote in an election. Someone interested in buying an election can enter an employment contract with some of the opponent electors where these electors are paid to do a job that prevents them from voting. By purchasing access to public voter registration lists, it is possible to verify ex post whether the opponent electors have abstained. In the last two sections, we discuss several barriers that can undermine an attempt to buy an election in the manner we identify.

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Election Festivals and Voter Turnout: An Overview of Recent Research

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Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next

Educating Students for Democracy: What Colleges Are Doing, How It’s Working, and What Needs to Happen Next

Nonprofit Messaging and the 2020 Election: Findings from a Nonpartisan Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) Field Experiment

Big Data Analytics and How to Buy an Election

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