Voting, Elections

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Voting, Elections Campaigns

• Overview
• Voter Turnout
• Money and Elections
• Role of Campaigns

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Voting, Elections Campaigns

• General Facts about Voter Turnout
• Comparatively
• Rationales for Voting
• Two Factors Associated with Voting
• Decline in Voting A Paradox
• a. Gradual Decline in Voting
• b. Expansion of Voting Population

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Voting, Elections Campaigns

• III. Should We Be Worried?
• a. Participation is Important
• - Public opinion to public policy
• - By the People not accurate

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Voting, Elections Campaigns

• b. First Perspective Optimistic View
• - Comparisons Unfair
• - Decline Exaggerated
• - People Participate in other Ways

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Voting, Elections Campaigns

• c. Second Perspective Pessimistic
• View
• - Rational Psychological Incentives
• for Voting Diminished
• - Politics Now Difficult to
  Understand
• - Disproportionately Effects
  Population

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Voting, Elections Campaigns

• d. Questions to Ponder
• - Should all groups be forced to
• participate equally?
• - Does our political system
• systematically exclude the
• fringe?

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Voting, Elections and Campaigns

• II. Money and Elections
• 1. The Rising Cost of Campaigns
• 2. McCain-Feingold Four Loopholes
• 3. Larger Considerations Biases
• III. Do Campaigns Matter?
• - Yes
• - No