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A subcommittee of the Virginia General Assembly invited researchers to examine what would happen if the Commonwealth aligned its voting calendar with federal elections.
Researchers Sam Pressler, a Karsh Institute fellow, and Soren Duggan produced “Nobody to Call,” a reporter based on interviews with men in their mid-20s to their mid-40s without college degrees. We’ve all experienced social atrophy, Pressler said, but for men without degrees the bottom has fallen out.
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Karsh Institute Executive Director Melody Barnes spoke about how the U.S. founding fathers designed American democracy.
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In looking at the U.S. from its founding to today, Karsh Institute Executive Director Melody Barnes sees popular sovereignty and the rule of law as inseparable.
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HEDEX was built by Campus Compact and AAC&U, in partnership with More Perfect and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia, with guidance from an advisor circle of practitioners in the field.
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“Turnout increases with consolidation. We see this in other states, and we’ve seen this in Virginia," the Karsh Institute's Jessica Kimpell Johnson told elected officials. "And we have data on this for you."
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Virginia’s closely watched off-year elections have long made the state a national political bellwether, but lawmakers are considering moving them, based on a new study from the Karsh Institute.
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UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy presented the results of a poll of 1,000 Virginia residents to a Virginia legislative panel showing that changing the election calendar would get 42 percent of us to be more likely to vote in state elections.
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