issue voting

Examples of issue voting in the following topics:

• Issue Voting

  • In contrast to party voting, issue voting is when voters base their election decisions on political issues.
  • The process of issue voting involves voters comparing their opinions about how certain issues should be addressed against candidates' stances on these issues.
  • While issue voting has risen in recent years, many factors can complicate it.
  • Similarly, issue salience is when people vote on the basis of how relevant an issue is to their lives.
  • Describe issue voting and its relationship to larger trends in the electorate

• Policy Preferences

  • In some elections, voters are motivated to vote a certain way based on specific policy preferences, which is called issue voting.
  • In "issue voting," voters cast their vote based primarily on specific political issues .
  • Many factors can complicate issue voting.
  • Many viewed these issues as equally salient, and had a hard time picking one issue to vote on.
  • Differentiate between issue voting and party voting and the reason(s) a voter would opt for one or the other

• The Impact of Minor Parties

  • Third-party candidates exert influence by focusing the election on particular issues and taking votes away from major candidates.
  • Third parties usually organize and mobilize around a single issue or position, putting pressure on candidates from major political parties to address these issues.
  • Although it is unlikely that a third party candidate will ever garner a plurality of the vote, they can influence the election by taking votes away from a major party candidate.
  • This was at issue during the 2000 election when Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader took votes away from Democrat Al Gore, a situation that some felt contributed to the victory of Republican George W.
  • Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate, is accused of "stealing" votes away from Al Gore, a Democrat, in the 2000 election.

• Women vs. Men

  • In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote and, today, women vote at similar rates to men.
  • Other approaches examine the question of the rationality of voting: does voting serve the self-interest of any given individual, and what are the interests or issues that might change someone's voting patterns?
  • In spite of this long-term institutional barrier to voting, women today vote at similar rates to men.
  • Even when considering so-called "women's issues", such as reproductive choices and rights or equal pay legislation, women do not vote as a bloc.
  • Instead, while they may identify these issues as more important than men, women tend to be split over the correct solutions to a problem.

• Voting Right

  • However, common stock can be broken into voting and non-voting classes.
  • The matters that a stockholder gets to vote on vary from company to company.
  • In many cases, the shareholder will be able to vote for members of a company board of directors and, in general, each share gets a vote as opposed to each shareholder.
  • Shareholders with the right to vote will have numerous options in how to make their voice heard with regards to voting matters should they choose to.
  • This scene from "The Office" humorously illustrates a shareholder meeting, where the shareholder can exercise their right to vote on company issues or question company directors.

• When Consensus Cannot Be Reached, Vote

  • The kinds of questions that come to a vote often involve complex, multifaceted issues.
  • These summaries help everyone measure how much progress has been made toward resolving the issues, and remind everyone of what questions remain to be addressed.
  • If the honest brokers have been doing their job well, they will be able to credibly call for a vote when the time comes, and the group will be willing to use a ballot sheet based on their summary of the issues.
  • By the time matters reach a vote, the disagreement has usually boiled down to a few key issues, with recognizable labels and brief descriptions.
  • Finally, conduct votes in public.

• Latinos

  • On average, Latino citizens continue to vote at significantly lower rates than non-Latino white voters.
  • On average Latino citizens continue to vote at significantly lower rates that non-Latino white voters.
  • There are many potential approaches that can be taken to explain variations in voting rates.
  • Others examine the question of the rationality of voting: does voting serve the self-interest of any given individual, and what are the interests or issues that might change someone's voting patterns?
  • As such, people may live for many years in the US without being able to vote.

• African Americans

  • There are different explanations for voting patterns.
  • Others examine the question of rationality in voting: does voting serve the self-interest of any given individual, and what are the interests or issues that might change someones voting patterns?
  • During the early Reconstruction period, Black residents voted in large numbers .
  • While the fifteenth amendment provided legal protection for voting rights based on race, during the Jim Crow era, politicians created new institutions to suppress the vote of Black residents.
  • This act removed a large institutional barrier to voting and helped to further protect voting rights.

• Who Votes?

  • Having a voting system raises the question of electorate: who gets to vote?
  • This has the potential to be a sensitive issue, because it forces the project to officially recognize some people as being more involved, or as having better judgement, than others.
  • The voting system itself should be used to choose new committers, both full and partial.
  • Often there will be no disagreement, and therefore no vote necessary.
  • For example, they may require that the proposal receive at least n positive votes and no negative votes, or that a supermajority vote in favor.

• Socioeconomic Factors

  • Independently, income has some effect on whether or not people vote.
  • The more educated a person is, the more likely he or she is to vote.
  • They are likely to form opinions about political issues and engage in discussions.
  • This is a figure illustrating the different rates of voting in the 2008 U.S.
  • The higher income, the more likely a person is to vote.