scholarly journals The United States of America—Disruptive Governments, Social Movements and Technocrats in Transformation Processes Towards Sustainability

2020 ◽  
pp. 225-246
Author(s):  
Ariel Macaspac Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electoral College ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Midterm Elections ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Transformation Processes

AbstractThe election of the populist Donald Trump to the United States is argued to be a consequence of the fluke of the electoral college, the lackluster Democratic turnout, and the anti-establishment and populist sentiments in the population. Through effective gerrymandering after the 2000 general elections, the Republican party and its presidential candidate Trump won the elections, even though he lost the popular vote by close to 3 million ballots. Another example of the flaw of the electoral system is shown by the 2018 midterm elections.

scholarly journals Reclaiming the House of the Representatives from Republicans: Case Study of Districts TX-32 and NJ-3

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Norbert Tomaszewski
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racially Diverse ◽  
Midterm Elections ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Changing Demographics

2018 midterm elections in the United States allowed more ethnically and racially diverse candidates to become members of the Congress. The use of social media tools helped them to reach out to their community and get out the vote, which is especially important in Democratic campaign tactics. The article, by focusing on Colin Allred's and Andy Kim's Congressional bids, focuses on how their issue-oriented campaigns helped to mobilize the liberal voters. Furthermore, by analysing the rapidly changing demographics, it tackles the crucial question: do they mean the doom of the Republican Party?

Liminal Identity: Reconstruction of Syrian Identity in Trump's America

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-24
Author(s):  
May Mzayek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Electoral College ◽  
The Political ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Syrian Refugees ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Identity Reconstruction

Abstract During November of 2016, the Electoral College elected Donald Trump as President of the United States of America. The following spring, I conducted research with Syrian refugees in Austin, Texas. Using liminality, or the space of uncertainty, I examined identity loss and change with Syrian refugees and within myself. As an immigrant from Syria, my identity was always an issue growing up in the United States, especially as my family struggled for years to attain citizenship. Trump's election evoked my past feelings of uncertainty regarding personhood. Understanding the political context and the challenges of resettlement, I conducted my thesis research in Austin, Texas, with Syrian refugees in order to examine changes in their identities. Their continued feelings of identity loss and change fortified their existence in a space I am very familiar with—liminality.

Reform of the Electoral System

1952 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 394-407
Author(s):  
Ruth C. Silva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electoral College ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
College System

Current proposals for reform of the electoral college system are embodied in three plans which appear to be designed to enable the “conservatives” to elect a President of the United States. Since 1932, the present electoral college system has compelled both parties to nominate presidential candidates who advocate policies devised to win the votes of conscious ethnic, religious, and economic groups in metropolitan centers, where these minorities hold a balance of power in populous states controlling large blocs of electoral votes. Consequently, all recent presidential candidates have supported social security, collective bargaining, and civil rights legislation. An inspection of congressional roll calls discloses the rather obvious fact that a number of Republicans and southern Democrats hardly approve of these and other so-called Fair Deal measures.

scholarly journals Multilayered Democracy in Papua: A Comparison of “Noken” System and Electoral College System in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 232
Author(s):  
Ahsan Yunus
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electoral College ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Social Diversity ◽  
College System ◽  
The Social ◽  
General Elections ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Constitutional Pluralism

The elucidation of understanding popular sovereignty through the implementation of democratic principles when applied to a pluralistic Indonesian society requires a comprehensive study. This study is a normative-legal research by using statute, case, and conceptual approaches. This paper provides information on the latest trend in research. The results show that the characteristics of the general election by Noken system are in line with the Electoral College system to presidential elections in the United States, especially in the Noken system as represented by the chieftain (election by the big man). The Noken system is the result of the relations of political culture and the strengthening of local democracy. Hence, the constitutionality of Noken system is a translation of the constitution that pays attention to the social diversity that lives in society. Not only in the context of general elections, but in every aspect of national and State life, as more attention is given to the constitution of social diversity in society (constitutional pluralism).

Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki: Wyrok Sądu Najwyższego Stanów Zjednoczonych z dnia 6 lipca 2020 r. w sprawie Peter B. Chiafalo, Levi Jennet Guerra i Esther Virginia John vs. stan Waszyngton (dotyczący legalności nakładania na elektorów sankcji za oddanie głosu niezgodnego z wynikami wyborów powszechnych), 591 US (2020)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5(166) ◽  
pp. 237-248
Author(s):  
Marcin Rulka
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
General Election ◽  
Electoral College ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
2016 Election

The case concerned the election of the President of the United States of America who is elected by the Electoral College. In the 2016 election, Washington’s three electors voted inconsistent with the results of the general election in the state from which they were delegated. As a result, these electors were fined $ 1,000. The Supreme Court confirmed the constitutionality of this type of solution, because there is no provision in the Constitution of the United States of America that would explicitly prohibit states from depriving presidential electors of their freedom to vote.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

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