indirect election

Examples of indirect election in the following topics:

• Voter Turnout

  • Dictators have often fabricated high turnouts in showcase elections for this purpose.
  • Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election.
  • In any large election the chance of any one vote determining the outcome is low.
  • The Electoral College is an example of an indirect election, consisting of 538 electors who officially elect the President and Vice President of the United States.
  • Dictators have often fabricated high turnouts in showcase elections for this purpose.

• The Electoral College

  • The Electoral College is the 538 person body that elects the President and the Vice President of the United States.
  • The Electoral College is an example of indirect election, when a democratic government is voted into power by a representative vote, rather than by the entirety of the electorate.
  • The Electoral College consists of 538 electors who officially elect the President and Vice President of the United States.
  • Thus, though many people do not realize it, Presidential and Vice-Presidential elections are determined not by a popular vote.
  • Further, some maintain that it is a doctrinal problem that presidential elections in the United States are not decided by popular vote.

• Political Party Leader

  • The president can take an indirect role in shaping legislation, especially if the president's political party has a majority in one or both houses of Congress.
  • However, the president can take an indirect role in shaping legislation, especially if the president's political party has a majority in one or both houses of Congress.
  • The modern presidential campaign begins before the primary elections, which the two major political parties use to clear the field of candidates before their national nominating conventions, where the most successful candidate is made the party's nominee for president.
  • After winning the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama was sworn into office on January 20, 2009.

• Size and Resources

  • They may not be politically active, or else they may use indirect tactics such as media campaigns, research, and public opinion polls in order to advance their cause.
  • If these large corporations were to suddenly become less successful, it might create economic trouble, which could turn public opinion against elected officials.
  • That being said, the expectation is that interest groups will use their wealth to elect candidates that support their issues.
  • Since legislators are elected, there is a strong incentive for them to vote for issues that are popular with the current public opinion.

• Expressed Powers

  • He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows. " Clause one is a "vesting clause," similar to other clauses in Articles 1 and 3, but it vests the power to execute the instructions of Congress, which has the exclusive power to make laws.
  • In practice, since the 1820s, state legislatures have generally chosen to create electors through an indirect popular vote.
  • However, the president can take an indirect role in shaping legislation, especially if the president's political party has a majority in one or both houses of Congress.

• Indirect Techniques

  • Grassroots lobbying, or indirect lobbying, is a form of lobbying that focuses on raising awareness for a particular cause at the local level, with the intention of influencing the legislative process.
  • Rather, they choose to influence candidates and public officials using indirect tactics of advocacy.
  • The main two tactics used in indirect advocacy are contacting the press (by either a press conference or press release), and mobilizing the mass membership to create a movement.
  • There are 22 states that define lobbying as direct or indirect communication to public officials, and 14 additional states that define it as any attempt to influence public officials.
  • Identify the indirect techniques used by interest groups to influence legislation

• Candidates for Congressional Elections

  • Senators are elected by their state as a whole.
  • House elections are first-past-the-post elections that elect a Representative from each of 435 House districts which cover the United States.
  • House elections occur every two years, correlated with presidential elections or halfway through a President's term.
  • Typically, when a House election occurs in the same year as a presidential election, the party of the presidential winner will gain seats.
  • An increasing trend has been for incumbents to have an overwhelming advantage in House elections, and since the 1994 election, an unusually low number of seats has changed hands in each election.

• Types of Elections

  • In a parliamentary system, a general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen .
  • The term is usually used to refer to elections held for a nation's primary legislative body, as distinguished from by-elections and local elections.
  • A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections.
  • A primary election is an election that narrows the field of candidates before the general election.
  • Primary elections are one means by which a political party nominates candidates for the next general election.

• Nominating Candidates

  • Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for election to office.
  • To nominate candidates, political parties hold primary elections.
  • Primary elections are used to narrow the field of candidates for the general election.
  • In the general election, nominees from each party compete against each other to be elected to office.
  • Describe the steps by which a candidate appears on the ballot in a general election

• The General Election Campaign

  • A general election day may also include elections for local officials.
  • In U.S. politics, general elections occur every four years and include the presidential election.
  • There is no analogue to "calling early elections" in the U.S., however, and the members of the elected U.S.
  • Senate face elections of only one-third at a time at two year intervals including during a general election.
  • All federal elections including elections for the President and the Vice President, as well as elections to the House of Representatives and Senate, are partisan.