Democratic Engagement
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Explainer: Kentucky’s 2020 Primary Election
By Dr. Benjamin R. Knoll This year’s Kentucky primary election will take place on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020. Below are answers to all the questions you wanted to ask about […]
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Campaigning in a Crisis: Political Communication and Rhetoric during COVID-19
Political analysts and commentators have frequently described Donald Trump’s political communication and rhetoric as unprecedented. Yet during the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Trump’s communication and rocky relationship with the press […]
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Mapping the Geography of Gubernatorial Campaigns Using Social Media
What do a clam bake in Crisfield, Maryland, a Fourth of July parade in Windsor Heights, Iowa, and a minor league baseball game in Jacksonville, Florida have in common? They […]
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Do (Nasty) Campaigns Mobilize?
High turnout matters. It is one of the three key indicators of good democratic performance of a country as famously identified by Powell,[1] and its absence is often seen as […]
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Your Guide to the Indiana Primaries
Voting can be a complicated process, especially during an unprecedented global pandemic, which has already disrupted, and will continue to disrupt, our electoral processes. This guide to the Indiana primary elections […]
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Using COVID-19 and Connecticut’s Primary Elections to Teach Political Science Concepts
Connecticut’s 2020 primary election is a great example of electoral politics to include in a variety of classroom lessons. For public policy courses, it showcases how focusing events, defined as “an event that is sudden; relatively uncommon; can […]
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Civic Engagement Resources For Faculty During COVID-19
As students and faculty have moved to virtual classes, questions arise as to how to continue to encourage student civic education and engagement when students are unable to participate in […]
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Heartland Dispatch: With Sanders Out, Kansans’ Primary Attention Turns to House, Senate, and State Races
Senator Bernie Sanders withdrew his candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination this week, making former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive party nominee to face President Trump this fall. Are […]
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Political Participation in Immigrant Communities
Political participation is one of our most important civic duties. It is part of the original contract we the people agreed to when we founded this country, both native born citizens […]
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The Badger State Primary (Primaries) in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
By the time that Wisconsinites cast our ballots in the presidential preference primary, we will have already voted in two primaries—and we have a couple more coming up later in the spring. Studies […]