The article examines the evolution of citizenship education curriculum in Chilean secondary over last two decades from perspective relevance its contents for a democratic culture. evidence and analysis show variations observed curricula are not related so much to ideology governments that enact them as socio-cultural changes macro nature, such growing emphasis on rights participation. confirms ...

In 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Georgia v. Ashcroft, 539 U.S. 461 (hereinafter, “Ashcroft”), interpreting Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act as it related to the 2001 Georgia redistricting, and in so doing, changed the face of the Voting Rights Act. Prior to Ashcroft, redistrictings in jurisdictions subject to Section 5 were analyzed according to the standard enunciated in B...

Electioneering processes, particularly in the developing world has been marred by electoral frauds such as ballot snatching, multiple voting and other vices. The situation is compounded by the use of paper-based voter registration and voting systems. Although, there are already tendencies towards the adoption of electronic voting in some developing countries, they are still at rudimentary stage...

What difference does it make if the state makes people vote? The question is central to normative debates about the rights and duties of citizens in a democracy, and to contemporary policy debates in a variety of countries over what actions states should take to encourage electoral participation. By focusing on a rare case of abolishing compulsory voting in Venezuela, we show that not forcing p...

In this paper we analyze ternary bicooperative games, which are a refinement of the concept of a ternary voting game introduced by Felsenthal and Machover. Furthermore, majority voting rules based on the difference of votes are simple bicooperative games. First, we define the concepts of the defender and detractor swings for a player. Next, we introduce the Banzhaf power index and the normalize...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the distribution of voting power in the Constitution for the enlarged European Union. By using generating functions, we calculate the Banzhaf power indices for the European countries in the Council of Ministers under the decision rules prescribed by the Treaty of Nice and the new rules proposed by the European Constitution Treaty. Moreover, we analyze the pow...

We evaluate factor analysis and multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) as tools for the analysis of voter decisions over a series of dichotomous choices. We simulate binary voting data with a known form and illustrate that standard factor analyses of these types of data yield additional artifactual dimensions. This effect may be exacerbated by the choice of inter-voter measures of similarity used as i...

We consider a social choice problem where only a small number of people out of a large population are sufficiently available or motivated to vote. A common solution to increase participation is to allow voters use a proxy, that is, transfer their voting rights to another voter. Considering social choice problems on metric spaces, we compare voting with and without the use of proxies to see whic...