Youth Voters
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Inclusive and Representative Government Could be the Key to Unlocking the Youth Vote
By Jared McDonald In the run-up to seemingly every election, journalists discuss whether this will be the year in which young people turn out to vote. Although there is some […]
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Engagement through Experience: Student-Led Voter Registration Efforts
By Chelsea Kaufman Campuses across the United States are engaging in efforts to promote student voter registration as the 2020 election approaches. In my own efforts to promote civic engagement […]
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Teaching the Power of Local Political Participation
By Melissa Michelson My Menlo College students are generally concerned with current events and politics at the federal level—including Supreme Court decisions and actions taken by Congress or the President—and […]
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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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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 […]
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Why Many Young People Don’t Vote – And How to Fix That
Voter turnout among young Americans has been dismal since 18-year-olds earned the right to vote with the passage of the 26th amendment in 1971. Even in 2018—a high water mark […]
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Practicing Democratic Engagement in the Political Science Classroom
George Davis, Associate Professor at Marshall University, is a guest contributor for the RAISE the Vote Campaign. The views expressed in the posts and articles featured in the RAISE the […]
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Rutgers University Gets Out the Vote: Going Big in the Big Ten and Beyond
Elizabeth C. Matto, Associate Research Professor at Rutgers University, is a guest contributor for the RAISE the Vote Campaign. The views expressed in the posts and articles featured in the […]
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December Contributors to RAISE the Vote Discuss Democratic Theory for the Classroom
How can political scientists use discussions of democratic theory and participation to encourage their students to become more civically engaged? This month’s RAISE the Vote campaign theme, “Theoretical and Philosophical […]