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…

An analysis of voter attitude changes due to both political advertising and weeknight network television news broadcasts. (CH)

The relationship between class and voting has been described using concepts such as class voting, political distinctiveness of classes, class distinctiveness of parties, and class solidarity. A model is developed to analyze under what conditions the index of class voting is affected by different ways of classifying occupational groups. (Author/JB)

Passage of the 26th Amendment gave young adults the right to vote. This study attempts to further student understanding of the electoral process by presenting a method for analyzing spatial voting patterns. The spatial emphasis adds another dimension to the temporal and behavioral-structural approaches in studying the American electoral system.…

Project 18 is a course developed to encourage student involvement in the political system. It attempts to teach the importance of an active, concerned citizenry for the democratic process. (Author)

Recent legislation permitting 18 year-olds to vote in their college communities may well have caused the end of the non-resident student and a nationwide institutional loss of $250 to $300 million a year in out-of-state tuition. (HS)

The Woodbury materials center around a mock election in a hypothetical community. Students are given background data of the sort astute and active political campaign personnel would ferret out. A statistical outcome rpovides the students a means of evaluating the effectiveness of their strategy as the game progresses. (JB)

Reports that newspaper and television coverage of presidential elections have increased at comparable rates since the mid-1950s and that most Blacks who vote use both media. (FL)