Voting on the Propositions
Ballot Patterns and Historical Trends in California
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3530234 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanne Mueller (0000-0002-7119-9227, University of Rochester, corresponding author), John E Mueller |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1197-1212 |
| Publication date | 1969-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1955080 |
| OpenAlex | W4231226837 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 24 |
Entering the polling booth on Tuesday, November 3, 1964, the typical California voter found himself confronted with an immense sheet of finely-printed green paper, a dirty black rubber stamp, a tiny ink pad, and thirty decisions to render. A few minutes later (the legal maximum is 10) he emerged and numbly surrendered to a clerk his ballot, now slightly embellished, like the fingers of his decision hand, with black ink stains.Most of his decisions were made on a lengthy array of propositions. In these, questions on an assortment of issues were posed, each couched in language tedious and obscure-as only minds trained in the finest law schools could devise.This study seeks to gain some knowledge about factors which influence the vote on these propositions. It employs a somewhat unorthodox method: an analysis of the voting patterns on actual ballots. The ballots furnish attractive data because they are, after all, completely accurate records of the results of those minutes of decision-rendering in the artificial privacy of that cramped polling booth.It would be impossible by this method to generate a comprehensive theory about proposition voting behavior-too much information about the individual voter is forever lost by the secrecy incorporated in the balloting procedure. Nevertheless a contribution can be made in several areas of relevant concern, areas currently dominated more by folklore and mythology than fact or theory
Art · Ballot · Deliberation · Democracy · Epistemology · Gerrymandering · Law and economics · Literature · Mythology · Operations research · Political science · Politics · Polling · Proposition · Secrecy · Sociology · Voting · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Mormonism, Religion, and History · Philosophy · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,16 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 2016 (47) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |