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• Foreword / by Heather McGhee
• What we learned in 2020 : why universal voting is a logical and urgent next step
• The road to 2020 : steps back, steps forward
• The paradox of a crisis : how a pandemic sparked election reform and record turnout
• Democracy sausages, required voting, and high turnout : learning from Australia (again)
• Establishing justice, securing the blessings of liberty : why civic duty voting is constitutional
• The need for persuasion : why the public is skeptical about universal civic duty voting
• Answering the critics : responding to objections to civic duty voting
• Paving the way for universal voting : the urgency of gateway reforms
• Getting from here to there : how to implement universal voting
• From the impossible to the inevitable : a strategy for universal participation
• Securing rights, embracing responsibilities
• Appendix A: A model universal civic duty voting bill
• Appendix B: The Working Group on Universal Voting

A timely and paradigm-shifting argument that all members of a democracy must participate in elections, by a leading political expert and Washington Post journalist Americans are required to pay taxes, serve on juries, get their kids vaccinated, get driver's licenses, and sometimes go to war for their country. So why not ask-or require-every American to vote? In 100% Democracy, E.J. Dionne and Miles Rapoport argue that universal participation in our elections should be a cornerstone of our system. It would be the surest way to protect against voter suppression and the active disenfranchisement of a large share of our citizens. And it would create a system true to the Declaration of Independence's aspirations by calling for a government based on the consent of all of the governed. It's not as radical or utopian as it sounds: in Australia, where everyone is required to vote (Australians can vote "none of the above, " but they have to show up), 91.9 percent of Australians voted in the last major election in 2019, versus 60.1 percent in America's 2016 presidential race. Australia hosts voting-day parties and actively celebrates this key civic duty. It is time for the United States to take a major leap forward and recognize voting as both a fundamental civil right and a solemn civic duty required of every eligible U.S. citizen.
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• Introduction
• The lineage of American legislatures
• Fundamental structures
• Institutional characteristics
• Organizational characteristics
• Legislators and legislative careers
• Concluding thoughts on american legislatures in comparison.

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• [3] Codebook for card III (wave III)
• [4] Codebook for card IV (wave IV)
• [5] Codebook for new issue card.

Until now, the most authoritative study of the 1960 presidential race between John F Kennedy, Lynden B Johnson and Richard Nixon, was Theodore White's Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Making of the President 1960". But White, as a trusted insider, didn't tell all. Here's the rest of the story - combining an engaging narrative with exhaustive research, Pietrusza chronicles this pivotal election in which presidential debates were first televised, showing a tentative and exhausted Nixon - thus forever altering American politics, as with 80 million viewers passing judgment, Nixon's poll numbers dropped as the charismatic Kennedy's star rose. Nixon learned his lesson - but the damage was done. Pietrusza conveys the drama of that tumultuous year, all built on painstaking research and solid historical scholarship. With the 2008 American elections approaching, politics will be on everyone's mind and "1960: LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon" will transform the way readers see modern American history.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)