Voting Rights
Journal Articles
- Teaching voters new tricks: The effect of partisan absentee vote-by-mail get-out-the-vote efforts
- Youthful hours: Shifting poll-opening times manipulates voter demographics
- American Politics Research Special Issue
- Voting Lines, Equal Treatment, and Early Voting Check-In Times in Florida
- The Racial Context of Convenience Voting Cutbacks: Early Voting in Ohio During the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections
- Political Behavior of the American Electorate: Chapter: Turnout and Participation in Elections
- What Motivates People to Vote? The Role of Selfishness, Duty, and Social Motives When Voting
- Ideology, Vote Choice, and Bureaucracy Across Time: A Longitudinal Test of the Bureau Voting Model in the United States
- Postal delivery disruptions and the fragility of voting by mail: Lessons from Maine
- Seeing is Believing: An Experiment on Absentee Ballots and Voter Confidence: Part of Special Symposium on Election Sciences
- Choosing the Less Convenient Way to Vote: An Anomaly in Vote by Mail Elections
- Can States Promote Minority Representation? Assessing the Effects of the California Voting Rights Act
- The Role of Local Voting Rights for Non-Naturalized Immigrants: A Catalyst for Integration?
- Who is Left Out? The Process of Validating Voter Registration Applications: Part of Special Symposium on Election Sciences
- Framing Automatic Voter Registration: Partisanship and Public Understanding of Automatic Voter Registration: Part of Special Symposium on Election Sciences
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political Science
American Behavioral Scientist
SAGE Publishing, the parent of Social Science Space, is a signatory to the statement by the CivicAlliance.com that appears below:
Joint Statement on Protecting Voting Access
The Right to Vote is the Cornerstone of our Democracy.
We believe every American should have a voice in our democracy and that voting should be safe and accessible to all voters. We stand in solidarity with voters 一 and with the Black executives and leaders at the helm of this movement 一 in our nonpartisan commitment to equality and democracy. If our government is going to work for all of us, each of us must have equal freedom to vote and elections must reflect the will of voters.
Our elections are not improved when lawmakers impose barriers that result in longer lines at the polls or that reduce access to secure ballot dropboxes. There are hundreds of bills threatening to make voting more difficult in dozens of states nationwide. We call on elected leaders in every state capitol and in Congress to work across the aisle and ensure that every eligible American has the freedom to easily cast their ballot and participate fully in our democracy.
Social Science Space Articles
‘Scholars of Democracy’ Sign Statement to Support U.S. Voting Legislation
A collection of prominent American-based “scholars of democracy” – the majority of them political scientists – have signed a statement in support of the Freedom to Vote Act.
Returning Absentee Ballots during the 2020 Election – A Surprise Ending?
One of the most heavily contested voting-policy issues in the 2020 election, in both the courts and the political arena, was the deadline […]
Can Civics Education Boost Youth Voting? Research Suggests No
New research shows that states that require civics courses do not necessarily have better test scores, more youth voting or young people volunteering at higher rates than other states
Beyond Plurality: Ideas for Replacing U.S. Electoral College
Political scientist Joshua Holzer identifies a number of proven electoral strategies used elsewhere that could replace the United States’ Electoral College.
Blessed are the Trusting, For They Are More Likely to Vote
Whomever they vote for, says Cary Wu, Americans who are trusting are more likely to have either cast their ballots already or will on election day than Americans who do not trust easily.
What Research Says About Voting by Mail (Spoiler: It’s Safe)
Evidence reviewed by a National Association of Public Administration working group finds that voting by mail is rarely subject to fraud, does not give an advantage to one political party over another and can in fact inspire public confidence in the voting process, if done properly.
Watch the Webinar: Mobilizing Young Voters Focus of 2020 David Lecture
Will the recent wave of youth activism in protesting racial injustice translate into higher turnout rates in the 2020 U.S. presidential election? […]
External Resources
- 56 Years from The Experiment
- Why We Are (and Should Be) Talking About Voting Rights Now from Five-Thirty-Eight
- Contemporary Challenge to Voting Rights: This ‘Debates over Diversity’ section from The Enduring Democracy, Sixth Edition by Kenneth J. Dautrich, David A. Yalof, and Christina E. Bejarano contains an overview of the issue with questions for critical thinking and discussion.
