Essays on Election

Without a reasonable doubt, the entry of voters into the political arena marks a defining moment in a country’s politics. However, since Jamaica’s transition to an independent self government, it is amongst the few countries who has employed a competitive party system (Stone, 1978). There has been a lack of literature as it relates to...

Social media has propelled itself into the public eye in recent years. Multiple social media sites have a high rank of registered users, whom have the chance to follow, like and share their interests. Over the past few years, politicians and political parties have switched from using traditional media i.e. Newspapers, and instead are using...

Assignment 3. The theory that campaign contributions influence voting behaviour enjoys the support of several studies throughout political literature. Numerous studies have examined the relationship between campaign contributions and their consequent effect on congressional voting and finally, policy outcomes (Austen-Smith, 1987; Chappell, 1982; Wawro, 2001). Previous literature has explained the impact of interest groups’ campaign...

Voting behavior is a form of political behavior. Understanding voters’ behavior can explain how and why decisions were made either by public decision-makers, which has been a central concern for political scientists Goldman (2006), or by the electorate. To interpret voting behavior both political science and psychology expertise were necessary and therefore the field of...

There is a significant difference between factors that are considered to be accountable for shifts in voting behaviour in the 1950s and those which are commonly cited today. However, some of these present similar characteristics, which is the reason why this divergence in electoral determinants should perhaps be considered a naturalizing evolution rather than a...

Introduction Representation is the basis of modern democratic theory. In most mature electoral democracies, this is achieved through regular elections. These provide voters with the opportunity to select their representatives, whose policy goals align with their own. This chapter explores how citizens in electoral democracies vote and some of the key influences on their behaviour....

Introduction To introduce this paper, I will first introduce my research question which can be used in comparative politics research. As Giger (2009) concluded, in Europe, the voting behaviour of women is different from the voting behaviour of men. Her findings suggest that women tend to vote more to the ‘left’ than men. She speaks...

Literature Reviews Starting from the Bangkok Declaration signed by Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand in 1967, ASEAN enlarged its size by adding Brunei Darussalam in 1984, and Vietnam in 1995, Laos PDR and Myanmar in 1997, and Cambodia in 1999, covering the whole South East Asia region, except a small young state, Timor-Leste which...

As Theodore Roosevelt said it best, “A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.” (The Liberty Champion, 2014) The fundamental principle of American politics is that the individual is capable of trying to enact good will through voting and participation in the political system. When more people participate...

Introducing Australia’s compulsory voting system has seen polling attendance rates reach over 90% and stay above this figure consistently since 1924. Before introducing compulsory voting, attendance rates were dropping to below 45%, resulting in a government less representative of its citizens, along with an underlying bias toward the individuals casting votes within this representative. All...