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Essay Instructions: This is an informed opinion essay. MLA format with 4 cites (at least 1 cite must come from source other than a website book and NO Wikipedia cites). High school senior level or college freshman level writing.
You must answer the following questions in the essay:

Texas has been marked as having a "wide open election" system for decades (in this case it means, anything goes"). There have been charges of money buying elections for years. We do know that the best financed campaigns generally win elections (not always--but mostly). This has wide spread implications for democracy.

What constraints do we have in Texas in terms of the election of candidates? What are the laws on campaign finance? What are the campaign regulations that govern elections? What about the regulations on interest groups? How does big money influence elections? Does big money influence elections? Is this good or bad? Why? What do important people say? What do you think? Why? What should we do? How should we do it? Why?

Essay Instructions: This is the specific question/assignment for the paper:
"Imagine yourself to be a member of an international election assistance team from the Inter-Parliamentary Union advising on the conduct of the 2008 Presidential election. Write a memo of about 15 pages indicating what would need to be done to bring the election into line with the standards of "free and fair" generally applied to elections in other parts of the world."
The readings or resources needed are from:
1. Douglas Amy's affidavit in Russow
2. Applicants' Factum in Russow
3. The book 'Electoral Systems' by David Farrell
the book 'Models of Democracy' by David Held may be useful as well.

Essay Instructions: Write a comprehensive paper(4pages, doubled-spaced, 12 font, standard 1" margins) Explaining the key factors which shaped the 2006 midterm elections. Also use issues from Florida and Ohio. Discuss which of these issues will likely play a decisive role in 2008 presidential election and why? The writing assignment should be critical analyzes of the subject matter. Needs to be well written, organized, and researched(i.e., based upon scholarly work). Please also include a works cited page and in-text citations( APA documentation style). Try to cite from some of these people Larry J. Sabato, Gary Jacobson, Bruce Gordon,Hillary Rodham Clinton,Rudy Giuliani, Barack Obama and Fred Thompson.

Essay Instructions: Voting is the quintessential mechanism of any democratic system. By voting, citizens are able to
communicate their preferences towards candidates, parties, governments, and policies, as well
as to hold governments and politicians accountable. If this is the case, what variables are
deemed to be the most relevant for citizens in making their voting choices? How can voters
overcome problems of demobilization, emotional identification, or deficient information?
Regarding accountability, what institutional factors do enhance or hamper it in different political
systems?

Note: Please make sure that the work is argumentative, and give some examples of real cases.
Also, make sure that you use the resource I'm giving you, but if you had to use other resources, please make sure that they will be an available ones. For example, the resources that available online, or you send me the PDF, or any type of file, so I can be able to discuss about the work...
Please, keep in mind that the papers should be a little simple, but no too much simple or too much complicated,,,

Resource:
Doc.: William L. Miller and Richard G. Niemi, “Voting: Choice, Conditioning, and
Constraint”, in Lawrence LeDuc, R. G. Niemi, and Pippa Norris, eds., Comparing
Democracies 2. New Challenges in the Study of Elections and Voting (London: Sage,
2002), pp. 169-1 88. (sc/hum)