Voter education and engagement
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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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Will the Pandemic Weaken the Union to the Point of Collapse?
Over the past 20 years, I’ve taught thousands of students a particular narrative about how the US government formed—American colonists established mechanisms in the Constitution to help them solve significant collective action problems. It’s worth remembering that […]
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What You Need To Know About Election Polls
The surprising outcome of the 2016 presidential election led many people to question the credibility of public opinion polling. That’s a fair question, considering so many polls suggested Hillary Clinton would win the […]
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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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Voting in the Time of Corona, Will Louisiana Head to the Polls?
The 2020 Democratic Primary is already one for the history books with several women running to be the nominee, including Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Kristen Gillibrand and Amy Klobuchar. We […]
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Everywhere is the Same Story: Voter Turnout!
2020 is an important electoral year in the United States. Voters have the opportunity to cast their ballot for a candidate to the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the […]
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Teaching about Super Tuesday? Share these RAISE the Vote Resources with Your Students!
APSA’s RAISE the Vote campaign features blog posts focused on some of the Super Tuesday states to help faculty and students understand what’s happening around the country. Some of the […]
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Civics in the Lion’s Den: How the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith promotes civic engagement on campus
Williams Yamkam, assistant professor and Chair of the campus chapter of the American Democracy Project at the University of Arkansas, is a guest contributor for the RAISE the Vote Campaign. […]