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(University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), (University of California, Davis)
  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 165 pages, height x width x depth: 226x151x10 mm, weight: 240 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Izdošanas datums: 14-Apr-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108822630
  • ISBN-13: 9781108822633
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 165 pages, height x width x depth: 226x151x10 mm, weight: 240 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Izdošanas datums: 14-Apr-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 1108822630
  • ISBN-13: 9781108822633
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US federalism grants state legislators the authority to design many aspects of election administration, including ballot features that mediate how citizens understand and engage with the choices available to them when casting their votes. Seemingly innocuous features in the physical design of ballots, such as the option to cast a straight ticket with a single checkmark, can have significant aggregate effects. Drawing on theoretical insights from behavioral economics and extensive data on state ballot laws from 1888 to the present, as well as in-depth case studies, this book shows how strategic politicians use ballot design to influence voting and elections, drawing comparisons across different periods in American history with varying levels of partisanship and contention. Engstrom and Roberts demonstrate the sweeping impact of ballot design on voting, elections, and democratic representation.

Engstrom and Roberts show how politicians use ballot design to influence voting and elections. This book is of interest to the broad community of scholars who study elections and to general readers interested in how democratic elections work in the United States.

Recenzijas

'Erik Engstrom and Jason Roberts have written the definitive modern study of the politics of ballot design in the United States. Ballot design laws are intensely fought over in state legislatures, and they have consequences for election outcomes. This book deftly combines historical and modern statistical analysis that will be of great interest to both the academic researchers, students of election science, election administrators, and those who influence the laws by which we mark our ballots.' Charles Stewart III, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'Engstrom and Roberts vividly demonstrate how the design of voting ballots shapes both turnout and voter choice. Particularly compelling are two major contributions: the application of 'nudge' to the understanding of voters' decisions, and how political circumstances lead politicians to redesign ballots to achieve new political goals.' John Aldrich, Duke University 'This book makes a powerful argument to carefully consider the democratic implications of how ballots are redesigned and by whom ... Highly recommended.' T. Marchant-Shapiro, Choice

Papildus informācija

Physical features of ballots vary considerably across the US. This book shows how politicians use ballot design to influence voting.
List of Figures
ix
List of Tables
xi
Acknowledgments xii
1 Introduction
1(14)
1.1 States and Election Law
4(3)
1.2 Plan of the Book
7(8)
2 How the Ballot "Nudges" Voters
15(22)
2.1 Introduction
15(1)
2.2 Ballot Architecture
16(7)
2.3 Nudging Voters
23(6)
2.4 Implications for Candidates
29(1)
2.5 Ballot Architecture over Time
30(4)
2.6 Are Ballot Architects Aware?
34(3)
3 Ballot Architecture in the Progressive Era
37(22)
3.1 Introduction
37(1)
3.2 From Party Ballots to Secret Ballots
38(5)
3.3 California
43(5)
3.4 New York
48(1)
3.5 Maryland
49(4)
3.6 The Political Logic of Ballot Architecture
53(2)
3.7 Implications for Ballot Roll-Off
55(2)
3.8 Implications for Turnout
57(1)
3.9 Conclusion
58(1)
4 The Personal Vote Era, 1940--2000
59(33)
4.1 Introduction
59(2)
4.2 Ohio: Saving "Mr. Republican"
61(4)
4.3 Connecticut: The Power of Defaults
65(4)
4.4 North Carolina
69(1)
4.5 Patterns of Change
70(3)
4.6 The Incumbency Advantage
73(7)
4.7 Representational Style
80(10)
4.8 Conclusion
90(2)
5 Ballot Architecture in the Contemporary Partisan Era
92(38)
5.1 Michigan
97(11)
5.2 North Carolina
108(12)
5.3 Comparing Michigan and North Carolina
120(2)
5.4 Iowa and West Virginia
122(5)
5.5 Conclusion
127(3)
6 Reconsidering the American Ballot
130(12)
6.1 The Consequences of Ballot Design
130(2)
6.2 The Causes of Ballot Design
132(3)
6.3 Scholarly Implications
135(2)
6.4 Policy Implications: Designing a Better Ballot
137(5)
Bibliography 142(7)
Index 149
Erik J. Engstrom is Professor of Political Science at University of California, Davis. He is the author or co-author of three booksmost recently Race, Class, and Social Welfare: American Populism since the New Deal (2020). He was the co-winner of the 2015 J. David Greenstone Prize for best book in Politics and History from the American Political Science Association. Jason M. Roberts is Professor of Political Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author or co-author of three books, including The American Congress (2019) and Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform (2013).