Thesis
Permissive early voting and registration requirements: an examination of political culture's influence on state electoral policy
Washington State University
Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Washington State University
2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/100764
Abstract
The landscape of American election procedures and policies is as diverse as states are numerous. No two states employ identical voting experiences for its citizens. Increasingly, these experiences include early voting procedures, such as no-excuse absentee and early inperson voting. However, these early voting procedures also exhibit interstate differences, especially in combination with other voting practices, such as voter identification and registration requirements. This paper examines a number of early voting practices through the lens of Daniel Elazar's political culture typology. The subcultures of moralism, individualism and traditionalism are hypothesized to be associated with varying levels of permissive early voting and registration requirements. The findings suggest that political culture influences certain policies, namely no-excuse absentee voting and election-day registration, while not significantly affecting others, such as early in-person voting procedures. This paper proposes possible reasoning for this and offers other theoretical explanations. Early voting represents a substantial policy innovation in election administration, and this paper makes an important contribution to the literature in examining the varying policy choices by states.
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- Title
- Permissive early voting and registration requirements
- Creators
- Lila E. Walsh
- Contributors
- Carolyn Nestor Long (Degree Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, School of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Public Affairs (MPA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Pullman, Wash. :
- Identifiers
- 99900525006901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis