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How Can Social Media Improve Youth Voter Engagement?, Anton M. Kopti
How Can Social Media Improve Youth Voter Engagement?, Anton M. Kopti
Honors Projects
This study examines the impact of social media on political engagement and its potential to strengthen democratic participation, focusing on the nonpartisan Valley Votes Project. By implementing literature-based social media tactics, the project aims to measure the success of each tactic based on digital interaction and viewership. The findings suggest that social media can be an effective tool to promote youth civic engagement in the political process. The study concludes that further research is needed to explore the effectiveness of these methods in different contexts and settings. Ultimately, promoting youth civic engagement is essential for a healthy democracy, and social …
Does Fear Of Government Corruption Affect Voter Turnout?, Ryan Nahmias
Does Fear Of Government Corruption Affect Voter Turnout?, Ryan Nahmias
Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters
According to the Survey of American Fears (2020-2021) fear of corrupt government officials is the number one thing Americans fear: 79.6 % of them in fact. In addition, voter turnout is one of the quintessential pillars that allows a democracy to function properly. In this paper I will examine the extent to which fear of government officials’ corruption affects voter turnout. Using the data from the Chapman Survey of American Fears and variables from the American National Election Study between 2020 and 2021, I expect to find a moderately strong relationship between fear of government corruption and voter turnout. Moreover, …
Best Practices For Voter Engagement Within Higher Education, Alyssa Tomins
Best Practices For Voter Engagement Within Higher Education, Alyssa Tomins
Honors Projects
It is imperative that higher education institutions learn more about how to recruit members of younger generations to participate in future elections. Young people have historically voted at low rates, but that trend has started to change in recent years as more resources are being devoted to voter engagement among young people. This leads to the interest of understanding what best practices and strategies have academic institutions utilized to advance voter engagement on their campuses. This qualitative study analyzes these best practices and strategies at 84 colleges and universities, all of whom are members of The Andrew Goodman Foundation Vote …
Voter Rationality In The United States, Asael Marvel
Voter Rationality In The United States, Asael Marvel
Honors Program Theses
The decade preceding 2020 has brought into question the political rationality of the average American voter, as it seems many individuals may vote against what is best for themselves. This begs a simple question, are American voters voting in their won rational self-interest, this project looks into a myriad of theories on voter rationality and the processes behind how voters may calculate or come to their voter decisions in an election in order to answer these questions. Then using the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey creates a method to analyze whether a specific group within the US is voting rationally, …
An Epistemic Justification For Voting, Julia Maskivker
An Epistemic Justification For Voting, Julia Maskivker
Faculty Publications
Received wisdom in most democracies is that voting should be seen as a political freedom that citizens have a right to exercise or not to exercise. But would liberal democracies be any less liberal if voting were seen as a duty? Contrasting the libertarian argument against the moral duty to vote, this paper proposes that we have a duty to vote well – with knowledge and a sense of impartiality. The obligation is one among many instantiations of a natural duty to promote and support just institutions in society. The paper links justice with democratic epistemic virtues to ground the …
Immigration, José Villalobos
Issue Evasion, José Villalobos
Twenty-Sixth Amendment, José D. Villalobos
Presidential Election Of 1980, José D. Villalobos
Presidential Election Of 1980, José D. Villalobos
José D. Villalobos
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Psychobiography And Politics, Ibpp Editor
Psychobiography And Politics, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
The editor discusses how voters base their voting preferences and behaviors on the meaning given to a single event in the lives of the candidates in U.S. presidential elections.