Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy

An original defense of the unique value of voting in a democracy Voting is only one of...
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Author: Emilee Booth Chapman
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Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy by Chapman, Emilee Booth

Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy

BD$71.05

Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy

BD$71.05
Author: Emilee Booth Chapman
Format: Paperback
Language: English

An original defense of the unique value of voting in a democracy

Voting is only one of the many ways that citizens can participate in public decision making, so why does it occupy such a central place in the democratic imagination? In Election Day, political theorist Emilee Booth Chapman provides an original answer to that question, showing precisely what is so special about how we vote in today's democracies. By presenting a holistic account of popular voting practices and where they fit into complex democratic systems, she defends popular attitudes toward voting against radical critics and offers much-needed guidance for voting reform.

Elections embody a distinctive constellation of democratic values and perform essential functions in democratic communities. Election day dramatizes the nature of democracy as a collective and individual undertaking, makes equal citizenship and individual dignity concrete and transparent, and socializes citizens into their roles as equal political agents. Chapman shows that fully realizing these ends depends not only on the widespread opportunity to vote but also on consistently high levels of actual turnout, and that citizens' experiences of voting matters as much as the formal properties of a voting system. And these insights are also essential for crafting and evaluating electoral reform proposals.

By rethinking what citizens experience when they go to the polls, Election Day recovers the full value of democratic voting today.

Author: Emilee Booth Chapman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 08/20/2024
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780691239088

About the Author
Emilee Booth Chapman is assistant professor of political science at Stanford University.

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