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  2. Political apathy - Wikipedia

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    Civic technology seeks to counteract the effects of political apathy through more modern means, such as social media, applications, and websites. Many startups within the field of civic technology attempt to connect voters to politicians and government, in an attempt to boost voter participation and turnout.

  3. Voter fatigue - Wikipedia

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    In political science, voter fatigue is a cause of voter abstention which result from the electorates of representative democracies being asked to vote often, on too many issues or without easy access to relevant information. [1]

  4. Better Together: Restoring the American Community - Wikipedia

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    The seminar's report, titled Better Together and issued in December 2000, called for a "nationwide campaign to redirect a downward spiral of civic apathy." The report warned that " social capital " in the US was dwindling to a critically low level and something needed to be done quickly to avoid civic catastrophe.

  5. Opinion - Dismantling the myth of voter apathy this Election Day

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    Americans may be disillusioned by the state of politics today, but they care about the issues and are actively engaged in electoral outcomes. However, that doesn’t mean they’re actually ...

  6. Voter turnout - Wikipedia

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    Institutional factors have the most significant impact on voter turnout. Making voting compulsory has a direct and dramatic effect on turnout while adding barriers, such as a separate registration process or unnecessarily scheduling many elections, suppresses turnout.

  7. Teaching for the Age of Agency - AOL

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    That’s why the most exciting book I’ve read about civic education isn’t about civic education at all. ... a teacher might offer three different assignments and let students choose ...

  8. Voter turnout in United States presidential elections - Wikipedia

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    For many years, voter turnout was reported as a percentage; the numerator being the total votes cast, or the votes cast for the highest office, and the denominator being the Voting Age Population (VAP), the Census Bureau's estimate of the number of persons 18 years old and older resident in the United States.

  9. An unlikely challenger to Putin brings a rare show of ... - AOL

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    What we have is not civic apathy but a civic famine — an enormous hidden potential.” ... Russia's Central Election Commission has approved three candidates who were nominated by parties ...