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Overview of Gerrymandering

In fifteen pages voting reapportionment or redistricting is discussed in a legal history of gerrymandering. Fourteen sources are ...

U.S. Black Political Power

grouped under the loose heading of "Jim Crow," not only forbade blacks from voting, but also segregated them from white citizens i...

Voting Methods in America and What is Wrong with Them

(BR), the alternative and repeated alternative vote (ALV-RAL), and the single transferable vote (STV). In terms of two general an...

Campaign Rhetoric in the 1992 Presidential Race

most powerful men in the world. Those who seek the seat are willing to go the limit to obtain it. The United States presidential...

Voting Behavior and the Impacts of Class and Race

have less, they also fear the law. These less well off factions have been treated unfairly, so even if a black person from a nei...

Spain's General Francisco Franco

write about the war and the long Franco dictatorship (1937-75), they often ignore the subject of caciquismo. During the first dec...

Public Goods and Efficient Production

In two pages this paper considers if public goods can be efficiently produced through majority vote. Three sources are cited in t...

Determinate Proposal on Death Penalty Propensity and a Juror's Gender

juror was a woman. Although only one woman serving on the panel of one jury in only one of the many criminal cases tried daily th...

Comparative Analysis of Voting Democracies in Europe and the US

the past is staging a comeback, and its presence is not comforting" (Jackson 50). This slow but steady fascist reawakening has be...

2000 U.S. Presidential Election

In twelve pages this paper discusses the swing vote in a consideration of the U.S. presidential election of 2000 and the results o...

Australia and Compulsory Voting

not know the candidates nor how they feel about a particular issue. Votes derived from some citizens may not be as desirable as th...

Economic Theory of Democracy by Anthony Downs

In three pages the voting theory introductory text is analyzed. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography....

Voting Behavior and the Influence of the Media

route. He notes that the "balance of coverage provided by the media is only worth worrying about if the media are influential" (R...

France and the Women's Suffrage Movement

In fourteen pages this paper examines how it was not until 1944 that France granted women voting rights. Ten sources are cited in...

Overview of the 1980 U.S. Presidential Election

to think much of President Reagan. In fact, he says that Reagan gave the people "a sense of direction and moral purpose, but not o...

Joseph Chamberlain and William Gladstone

can be of benefit, increasing diversity and as such bettering political decision with constant challenges. It was the challenges p...

U.S. Presidential Elections and the Impact of the Minority Vote

allow the potential electoral success of racial minorities" (Richie and Hill 1998, PG). President Bushs plans regarding th...

Ex Convicts and Voting in New Jersey

police arrest and charge more black people with crime. It seems that white people get away with crime, or that false allegations a...

German Elections of 1932 and 1933

Party. While some may argue that his intentions were well documented in his book "Mein Kampf" published in 1925, the book was not ...

American Political Changes

no better illustrated than through a discussion of the particulars of our democracy itself, the particulars of who is allowed the ...

E-Voting and a Compromised Democracy

is, is rather frightening. Yet, e-voting has received much acclaim throughout the world. French MP Andr? Santini claims that E-dem...

The Relationship Between Israelis and Arabs

not everything is black and white. Landau (1993) suggests that there are a variety of viewpoints within Israel and amongst the Je...

Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Anesthesiologistsm and Drug Abuse

to are not likely to be illicit drugs but rather the same prescribed drugs with which they treat their patients (Texas Medical Ass...

Voting for John Kerry

are in big business, are supporting Bush because it does them good to have him in office. In all honesty, these are the only re...

Presidential Elections, Voting Patterns, and Civil Rights

of civil rights had something to do with the win. Boller puts it this way: "Truman...waged the kind of campaign, according to jour...

Voting and Legal Immigrants

as recently as the 1920s" (Worth, 2004). And, interestingly enough, until the city of New York abolished its school boards, "all r...

Voting District Delineation in California

Some 46.7 percent are white, 34.4 percent are Hispanic, and 6.7 percent are black (Coleman, 2004). More and more of those citizen...

Presidential Election of 2000 and Black Disenfranchisement

statistics are quite intriguing. At the same time, the ballots which were considered to be spoiled were really occurring at a rate...

October 2001 Patriot Act Passage

provision. The objections that required this were due to the impact that the powers would have in terms of freedom and libraries. ...

U.S. Voting Behavior

2005).Another factor is income. Those who are better off financially than others are more likely to vote, in essence the more mone...