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Fernandez, Frank – Educational Researcher, 2021
One of the traditional aims of higher education is to prepare informed citizens who are civically engaged. Although many voters are underinformed, there are multiple social benefits to having an informed electorate. Therefore, colleges should aspire to not only increase student voter turnout but to prepare informed voters. In this article, I use…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Citizen Participation, Voting, Community Colleges
DuVall, Suzanne Carroll – 1982
Voting patterns in the 97th United States Congress (1981), in which the Senate was under Republican control for the first time in 30 years, are analyzed. The study measured conservatism from congressional voting analyses made by the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), Americans for Constitutional Action (ACA), and the Conservative Coalition…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Geographic Regions, Influences, Legislators