POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: First-Past-The-Post Voting, Electoral College, Young Canadians

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Patrice Dutil

Document Summary

Elections legitimize the state, organize and establish power (domination) Right to vote was not always fully democratic. Suffrage (granting the right to vote) has been evolutionary giving women the right to. Voter turnout beli gum over 90% voted vote, aboriginals, minorities (1960"s) Can political culture show voter turnout? pei has 74% (highest) voter turnout, Ontario (2011) less than half eligible voters turnout (48. 2%) Young people just don"t care about politics. Repels people to see people in action articulation that politicians wont keep promises. 3) politicians not reaching out unlike predecessors (i. e youth not turning out of politics, but being left out of politics) 4) youth interested in politics, but no electoral contests. Participation has shifted to other forms (= People are more interested in the past, bc the public arena is much larger and is. There is a consumer relation to the state, contact with state has been reduced to a client of state services .