Telling Americans to Vote, or Else - Brookings.
William Galston, a scholar at the Brookings Institution, argued that forcing everyone to vote would temper political “polarization.” Activists and partisans have a disproportionate influence.
Despite the widespread presence of compulsory voting and the significant impact these laws appear to have on voting behavior, surprisingly little effort has been devoted to analyzing how mandatory.
What are the pros and cons of compulsory military service?. Admiral Mullen has been talking about a possible benefit of a draft being the engagement of the voting population being actively engaged in our active conflicts. We've had an increasing trend towards a 'warrior class' in the United States. I'm conflicted on the issue. Having an all volunteer military is beneficial in some ways, but.
When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation James S. Fishkin. All over the world, democratic reforms have brought power to the people, but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. In this book, James Fishkin combines a new theory of democracy with actual practice and shows how an idea that harks back to.
What Galston doesn’t mention (something I don’t believe I’ve ever seen mentioned in a treatment of modern compulsory voting) is that several of the American colonies had a history of compulsory voting (including some laws that were enforceable by fines that could be levied either on individuals or on towns), and that a compulsory-voting tradition was sufficiently salient in Massachusetts.
The voting age should not be lowered to 16. 16 year old people are usually still in. The German city-state of Bremen has just lowered the voting age to 16. Austria, Nicaragua, Brazil, Ecuador, Hungary, Slovenia, and Norway already allow 16-year-olds to vote in certain circumstances, according to Votes at 16, an organization that advocates the lowering of the voting age. I think the voting.
In particular, Grimley focuses on the attempts made by three thinkers, namely William Temple, Ernest Barker and A. D. Lindsay, to update the 19th century Liberal Anglican tradition of the Victorian period to respond to the new challenges of the inter-war period, including mass democracy, increased class tension and mass unemployment. Defining this tradition as one that stressed, above all, the.