In America, citizens are given the right to vote and elect officials into office. At the age of eighteen, young adults are allowed to register to vote and take part in elections. Not all citizens participate and decide to vote. When Americans decide to exclude themselves from voting, they initially are negatively impacting society. Thomas Patterson takes his stance on this when he wrote “The Vanishing Voter”.…
Sigelman, shines a light on the role ageism plays in voting behavior. They write that in order to examine voting behavior, “one must examine candidate characteristics in relation to voter characteristics” (Sigelman and Sigelman 264). This idea comes from the fact that “people consistently use similarities to themselves as a major basis for finding others attractive or unattractive … [based on] attitudes, values, and personal characteristics, such as sex and race (Sigelman and Sigelman 264).…
The authors of this article stated that the need to educate the voters is way important because it provides information and knowledge on who is an eligible candidate to vote. The goal of voters’ education is to make information available and accessible to everyone. All the information needed for a voter to know was all disseminated by the author. Since the election is fast approaching, and the government wants it to be successful and democratic, the authors imply to the readers that those who will vote must be able to know and understand their rights and responsibilities, and must be sufficiently knowledgeable. It is comparable to the book “The Persuadable Voter” by Hillygus and Shields, because they both engage in the election process and…
The common voter can’t have much effect on government and its policies. A majority of the states remain true to a certain political party, and only a few hundred people rarely affect states that don’t. However, if one wants to exceed beyond the role of the common voter, they can have an effect on the government. One can attempt to convince thousands of people in a swing state to vote for a certain candidate, one can schmooze their way into the government and create a difference there, and one can organize something opposing a policy that creates the illusion that that policy’s distasteful, without even knowing it. If I wanted to stop abortions, I would hire a girl whose pregnancy surpasses legal abortion standards, tell her to bribe a doctor…
Some younger adults are less educated in politics and have not had as much experience in voting. Those Texans who have attended college are said to be more likely to vote. While attending college and participating in more groups or group activities, campaigns and interest groups are more likely to mobilize youth. Non college youth are less likely to be part of groups or have a membership in union and are harder to reach out to about voting. Education also allows men and women to learn how the political system works.…
The majority of the youth in California have not been active and turning out to vote, while the state and county elections greatly affects them. Elections and votes result into what the future of California will look like and its citizens, which is the youth’s and college student’s future as well. The question I aim to research and write on is, why not turnout to vote if they care about their personal future in California? There is a large population of youth and college students in California, while the voter turnout in elections continues to decline rather than increase. I aim to research this puzzling question and make an argument on this phenomenon.…
A remarkable degree of concern has been expressed about level of voter turnout in democracies. Many behavioral level theories, more specifically rational choice theory is unsuccessful in explaining voter turnout. Indeed, “the instrument voter axiom predicts large-scale abstention because no individual is likely to have an influence on the election outcome” (Downs, 1957). However, international election results demonstrate that a large number of people do turn out to cast their vote, although they are not obliged to do so (Geys, 2006). This constitutes the paradox of voting.…
"Why Older Citizens Are More Likely To Vote". US News & World Report. N.p., 2012. Web. 23 Apr. 2016.…
Across most countries, younger citizens participate less in elections compared to the older voters. The United States being among the youngest nations, it is evident that electronic voting has a significant effect on the younger…
The topic of civic resposibility is brought up in this article, stating that the youner age group isnt as active in voting as the older age groups is, this could be attributed to many factors, whether they care or not, or simply whether they know what they want from a government…
The election season is one of the most important periods of time for a citizen of the United States. Every four years the country is glued to their television screens or their phones for much of the year as political candidates are named and the announcement of a new president, or a second term for the current president is announced. Opinions on political matters are also shared more often and with higher magnitude as the rise of social media has continued with users able to use share their opinions to a wide audience at any time. Despite all this, the voting turnout for presidential elections and voting on issues has been down for quite some time, especially for the young adult and college student crowd.…
“An analysis of the voting patterns of America’s major cities further shows a portion of the previous specified area patterns in the political leanings. Of the fifty-seven cities studied, Detroit remains as the most liberal city with 93.96% of the votes cast for liberal candidates” (Alderman et al). District of Columbia, Oakland, San Francisco, Cleveland, Baltimore, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia and St. Louis, these cities all originate from areas of the nation commonly thought as liberal. With representation from customarily “blue” Midwestern (Michigan and Illinois), Northeastern (Pennsylvania), and the West coast (California and Washington) states.…
Abstract Many young voters today are not really involved too much in political sources. Young citizens tend to find democracy a boring part of a young citizens’ life. Voting is a big dimension for the government. Many young citizens tend to lack on the motivation to participate in elections. Young citizens are not engaging in the democracy in high schools and colleges.…
College Students and Voting According to Chuck McCutcheon, only forty-nine percent of Millennials would consider themselves to be patriotic; however, sixty-four percent of Generation Xers would agree “patriotic” is an accurate description for them (para. 13). This fact illustrates the plenary attitude of college students towards voting; they are not big fans of the idea. Students tend not to vote, especially in presidential elections. The iconoclastic nature of college students towards disheartens them from taking advantage of their right to vote and make changes that are relevant to them.…
Politics have been a part of life here on Earth ever since God created the world and everything in it. In the United States of America, our political history has been defined by many different structures with different aspects or components attached. In the article "Suffrage Classes and Party Alignments: A Study in Voter Behavior," Richard P. McCormick states his own idea of the structure of politics during the 1800’s, saying, “The traditional ingredients of American political history have been personalities, classes, sections, parties, and issues.” (McCormick 397)…