In this study, two dimensions of political decisional agenda (the elements which relate most to voting decisions) were examined: the number of items on the agenda and the content of the agenda items. Data were gathered in a study of the 1974 congressional election in the five largest counties of Illinois' 24th Congressional District. A total of…

As a guide for those concerned with presenting the financial needs of the schools to the voting public, general research findings in the art of campaigning for school funds are summarized. Techniques, tools, and practices that have been used with success are reported, as well as the importance of understanding the attitudes of voters toward school…

A review of the political controversy surrounding the constitutionality of literacy tests and fairness of judging literacy at a sixth grade level resulted in analysis of literacy voter tests in several states, and Louisiana and Alabama in particular. Both states required citizenship, age of 21, and ability to read and write any article of the…

Factors that produced defeat of bond issues and the actions taken by administrators of four California junior college districts to offset those factors are presented in this paper. Relevant findings from previous studies on school bond elections are summarized; the legal and fiscal context in which new California junior college districts operate…

In November 1972, electorates in California, Colorado, Michigan, and Oregon decisively rejected consitutional amendments that (according to their supporters) would have reduced or eliminated reliance on the property tax as a means of financing education. School finance reformers were perplexed by these defeats. This study sets out to explain the…

Outlines a partial framework of the range of concerns embraced by DuBois on matters pertaining to economic disadvantagement of black people, and offers some analysis of what the evolutionary process has yielded black people as economic participants and the implications of these facts for public policy today and tomorrow. (Author/JM)

Reports a questionnaire survey of faculty following the election of a collective bargaining agent at the 14 Pennsylvania state colleges. Identifies relationships between faculty choice and influence of internal vs. external governance matters on voting, demographic faculty characteristics, and attitudes toward contending associations, scope of…

The major proposition in this essay is that black politics is moving from the tumultuous politics of idealistic protest to a cautious politics of backlash pragmatism. (Author)

Describes a study which shows that many of the apparent changes in voters' attitudes toward political issues since the 1950s are really due to variations in question wording on survey forms. Journal available from Department of Political Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611. (Author/AV)

A teacher's experiences in introducing concepts of democracy and voting to her kindergarten students. (BD)

Reports on a study of people's perceptions of the way in which their voting choices, and those of others, were influenced by media editorial endorsements of candidates. (GW)

School financial elections are won by analyzing what people know and need to know about the ballot issue; developing a ballot issue that is salable; then organizing, planning, financing, communicating, and finally evaluating to see what went right and what went wrong in the campaign. (Author/MLF)

Presents a lesson plan dealing with the right to vote. Identifies groups which were not allowed to vote at the time of the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, and explores why the vote was denied and what changes in society would have allowed the groups to vote. (BSR)

The decline in voting participation in American presidential elections since 1960 is also characteristic of both congressional off-year and gubernatorial elections. But the rate of decline varies greatly among the various states. Demographic variables explain only a few of these differences. Some possible explanations are presented. (Author/RM)

All evening on election night 2000, candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore were deadlocked in the tightest-ever race for the office of President of the United States. As the numbers were reported from each state, the battle for votes in the electoral college swung back and forth from Republicans to Democrats. The next morning, the issue was still…