POLI 2051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fokker E.Ii, Indirect Election, Winnowing
8 Apr 2016
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Chapter 10: voting and elections: political participation: Most common and most studied form of voting, easy to use in quantitative analysis. Conventional participation: relatively routine, non-threatening behavior that uses the channels of representative government. Unconventional participation: relatively uncommon behavior that challenges or deies government channels. Voting: the most common and most studied form of participation. Record of enfranchisement (given right to vote) in the usa. Initially, most states had taxpaying or property holding requirements for voting. Originally to prevent an excess of democracy, and the house only oice people got to directly vote for. States decide who gets to vote- only white men with property. Enfranchisement of black people: the 15th amendment- adopted in 1870, designed to protect the rights of newly emancipated blacks from the north and the south. Voting rights act of 1965: did away with the literacy test/device that was used to restrict black voters.
