Shauna Reilly

Design, Meaning and Choice in Direct Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

The Influences of Petitioners and Voters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A rigorous and highly original analysis of direct democracy in the United States, which calls into question the future of governance through ballot measures. Shauna Reilly uses quantitative, qualitative and experimental methodological approaches to present insights on the different behaviours of the petitioner, the ballot, and the voter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317152224
• Artikelnr.: 49352427

Autorenporträt

Dr. Shauna Reilly is an Assistant Professor at Northern Kentucky University, specializing in political behavior, and does extensive research in the area of direct democracy with her teaching and research interests focusing on political behaviour in American and comparative applications. She is published in the area of citizen electoral responses to ballot issues and representative acquisitions. Her experience and research on direct democracy provide insight into this multi-methodological approach to ballot participation. Further, her experience in the professional realm of politics provides a unique approach to this research and gives insight into multiple perspectives of this issue.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction to Direct Democracy and Political Comprehension;
Chapter 2 Critical Evaluation of Citizen Comprehension and Direct
Democracy; Chapter 3 Theoretical Foundations; Chapter 4 Petitioners and the
Oregon Process; Chapter 5 Petitioner Attitudes and Activities; Chapter 6
1An earlier version of this chapter was published as "Ballot Question
Readability and Roll-off: The Impact of Language Complexity" by Shauna
Reilly and Sean Richey in Political Research Quarterly. It is available
through Online First from Oct. 16, 2009.
http://prq.sagepub.com/cgi/rapidpdf/1065912909349629v1; Chapter 7 Topic
Selection and Language Barriers; Chapter 8 Individual Votes; Chapter 9 The
Future and Consequences of Comprehension on Ballot Propositions;