Votes at 16 and decent citizenship education could create a politically aware generation
Keir Starmer has pledged that a Labor government would introduce voting for 16- and 17-year-olds in Westminster elections.
Keir Starmer has pledged that a Labor government would introduce voting for 16- and 17-year-olds in Westminster elections.
Political science
Jun 27, 2024
0
1
Policies that provide public financing for political campaigns have gained popularity in the United States. One example is the Democracy Vouchers program that was implemented in Seattle, Washington in 2017 to potentially ...
Economics & Business
Oct 4, 2023
0
1
In 2016, Oregon became the first state to adopt and implement an automatic voter registration (AVR) system. Now, twenty-two states, plus Washington D.C., have such systems in place. Early research on the impacts of this innovation ...
Political science
May 3, 2023
0
20
Government efforts to keep registered voters on the rolls when they move from one address to another substantially boost those voters' likelihood of casting a ballot, my research has found.
Political science
Nov 7, 2022
0
8
Researchers recorded an eight percentage-point increase in people registering to vote after being sent a series of text messages from their local council, with the increase translating to a three percentage-point increase ...
Political science
Apr 12, 2022
0
27
A team of researchers from Harvard University and Boston University has found evidence showing that white boys who grew up with Black neighbors are more likely to be registered as Democrats as adults. In their paper published ...
States regularly use administrative records, such as motor-vehicle data, in determining whether people have moved to prune their voter rolls. A Yale-led study of this process in Wisconsin shows that a significant percentage ...
Political science
Feb 26, 2021
1
206
A new report by the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy takes a historical view to understand why, in 2020, the electorate in California remains so demographically and socioeconomically skewed.
Political science
Oct 1, 2020
5
4
Matto Mildenberger, University of California Santa Barbara explains how perceived experiences with climate change in the United States can be linked to political shifts in Congress, culture and society. He will demonstrate ...
Environment
Feb 17, 2019
0
11
Wide variations among the 50 states when it comes to the ease of casting a ballot are impacting the quality of democracy in the United States, a new study shows.
Social Sciences
Oct 23, 2018
1
13