Concludes that voter response varies with the content theme, but that backlash or boomerang may be the most common effect of negative political advertising. (FL)

Forecasts the effects of electronic voting on voting behavior and on campaign strategy in school finance elections, inferring these from Oregon's vote-by-mail experiments and from direct-mail campaigning and fundraising. Relates computerization to community education's role in raising school support. (MCG)

Between November 2004, and March 2005, the Center for Civic Education conducted a survey of alumni from the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program. Altogether, 522 alumni responded, ranging in age from 18-34. The primary focus of the study was on voting and other forms of political engagement. Due to self-selection by respondents,…

Increasingly, education systems are being privatized through various changes to organizational structures, to school management, and to funding mechanisms. Yet education remains publicly funded and therefore accountable to taxpayer preferences through voting mandates. This paper investigates the determinants of political support for the…

Research demonstrates that people are motivated to seek information on political issues for social utility, rather than to resolve private indecision or candidate choice. (RB)

This study attempted to determine the influences on voting behavior of 18 or 19 year old college students voting for the first time and of older college students who had been eligible to vote in a previous election. Parental voting behavior was not related to the voting of the students. (JB)

Reports the results of a May, 1970 survey of 430 high school students' attitudes toward age restrictions affecting such areas as voting, armed forces, movie attendance, driving, confidential medical care, marriage, etc. (AJ)

The question of lowering the voting age is discussed by Hubert H. Humphrey, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Monroe Sweetland, Charles Gonzales, A. L. Gallop, Lila S. Chase, Arnold Durfee, and Elizabeth A. Maguire. (JL)

Voter participation in Florida school board elections is much higher than in states where reforms were instituted in the early twentieth century to depoliticize local educational governance. These reforms served to repress participation in local elections. (Author/IS)

Lists strategies drawn from research findings to help candidates win board of education elections. (JM)

Two telephone surveys of registered voters in Toledo (Ohio)--one conducted a month before a school levy election, one a week before the election--enabled campaign workers to see if their strategies were effective and to make suggested changes. The levy passed with 52 percent of the vote. (Author/MLF)

This study determined that adolescent participation in voluntary associations was related to the form and extent of political activity in adulthood. Adolescent participation had positive effects on discussion of issues, campaign participation, and voting rates. (Author/APM)