Participation
The most common form of participation
What is voting?
It determines voting criteria
What are the individual states?
The amendment that gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th?
Voluntary actions taken by citizens to influence government
What is political participation?
This is voting based on a candidate's political party affiliation
What is straight ticket voting?
What is more participation in the presidential elections than in the midterm elections?
registration requirements, weak party affiliation, weekday elections, and frequency of elections
What are explanations for low voter turnout?
Allows people to participate in the political process by directly elected the Senators
What is the 17th amendment?
This 1993 act allowed citizens to register to vote at the DMV
What is the Motor Voter Law or NVRA?
This is voting based on a candidate's past record
What is retrospective voting?
Education, Income, and Age
What are factors that determine participation/voting?
The leading predictor of how an individual will vote in an election
What is partisanship or party affiliation?
The amendment that eliminated the poll tax
What is the 24th amendment?
The belief that one can make a difference in politics by expressing an opinion and acting politically
What is political efficacy?
This is voting based on looking ahead
What is prospective voting?
This age group votes in the lowest rate
Who are 18-34 year-olds?
This is significantly lower in the United States compared to most other Western democracies
What is voter turnout?
This made it so that no person eighteen years of age or older may be denied the right to vote on account of age
What is the 26th amendment?
It removed stumbling blocks, like the literacy test, that prevented African Americans from voting
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
This is voting for a candidate because it will be personally beneficial
What is rational choice voting?
This demographic votes in the highest rate
Who are senior citizens
Result of the difficulty registering to vote in the United States than in most other countries
What is the reason voter turnout in the US is low?
The result of the 15th, 17th, 24th, and 26th amendments
What is the expansion of voting rights?
Refers to the eligibility or right to vote
What is suffrage?
A voter takes into consideration the effect of recent economic conditions when making a decision how to vote
What is retrospective voting?