Election Day (eBook)

How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy

Emilee Booth Chapman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23907-1 (ISBN)

Infos

An original defense of the unique value of voting in a democracyVoting is only one of the many ways that citizens can participate in public decision making, so why does it occupy such a central place in the democratic imagination? In Election Day, political theorist Emilee Booth Chapman provides an original answer to that question, showing precisely what is so special about how we vote in today's democracies. By presenting a holistic account of popular voting practices and where they fit into complex democratic systems, she defends popular attitudes toward voting against radical critics and offers much-needed guidance for voting reform.Elections embody a distinctive constellation of democratic values and perform essential functions in democratic communities. Election day dramatizes the nature of democracy as a collective and individual undertaking, makes equal citizenship and individual dignity concrete and transparent, and socializes citizens into their roles as equal political agents. Chapman shows that fully realizing these ends depends not only on the widespread opportunity to vote but also on consistently high levels of actual turnout, and that citizens' experiences of voting matters as much as the formal properties of a voting system. And these insights are also essential for crafting and evaluating electoral reform proposals.By rethinking what citizens experience when they go to the polls, Election Day recovers the full value of democratic voting today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: abstention • acclamation • activism • against democracy • Arrow's Impossibility Theorem • A Theory of Justice • ballot • ballot box • Behavioral Economics • bribery • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Compulsory Voting • Consequentialism • constitutional amendment • critique • decentralization • Deliberation • Deliberative Democracy • Demobilization • Dictatorship • Direct Democracy • Economic Power • Election • Election law • electoral fraud • electoral reform • Electoral roll • Elite • Ethical Dilemma • Filibuster in the United States Senate • Fraud • freedom of speech • French nationality law • Gabriel Almond • Gerrymandering • Gill v. Whitford • Governance • hunger strike • Impossibility • Indication (medicine) • Individualism • Innovation • Instant-runoff voting • Irish Catholic • Jargon • John Aldrich (political scientist) • Legitimacy (political) • Liberalism • Major party • Mass Mobilization • May's theorem • Midterm election • monogamy • Motivated Reasoning • Multitude • name recognition • Nomination rules • normative • OpenDemocracy • Original Meaning • Paradox of Voting • Pareto Efficiency • party platform • Party System • Pluralism (political philosophy) • Political Campaign • political machine • Political Party • Politician • Politics • polling place • Public Choice • Public Interest • public reason • Public sphere • Quid Pro Quo • Rational Choice Theory • Referendum • Representative Democracy • Seana Shiffrin • secret ballot • Social Choice and Individual Values • Social desirability bias • Sophistication • Sortition • Sovereignty • State of nature • Suffrage • Thornburg v. Gingles • Treating • Two Treatises of Government • Tyranny of The Majority • Voter ID laws in the United States • voter registration • voter suppression • Voter turnout • Voting • voting system • warfare • Wasted Vote
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23907-X / 069123907X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23907-1 / 9780691239071