Reform, Politics, and Race in Cincinnati

Burnham, Robert A.

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“…Researchers have found that in local elections RCV increases elected officials who are racial minorities, women, or both in comparison to FPTP elections (Buckley et al, 2015; Burnham, 1997; Engstrom, 1990; Hirczy, 1995; John et al, 2018; McGing, 2013). Researchers also find that RCV elections in the U.S. are more positive and result in less negative evaluations of campaigns by voters and candidates than FPTP elections (Donovan, 2014; Donovan et al, 2016; McGinn, 2020).…”

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“…As part of understanding electoral innovations, a growing body of research examines the impact of ranked-choice voting (RCV) on electoral outcomes. Studies suggest that RCV improves candidate diversity, enhances the tone of campaigns, increases campaign mobilization, but may increase socioeconomic disparities in voter participation in local elections, though findings point in opposite directions on this final point (Buckley et al, 2015; Burnham, 1997, 2013; Donovan, 2014; Donovan et al, 2016; Engstrom, 1990; Hirczy, 1995; John et al, 2018; McGing, 2013; McGinn, 2020).…”

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Sincere, Strategic, or Something Else? The Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting on Voter Decision Making Processes

Simmons,

Waterbury

2024

American Politics Research

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The academic debate on how voters decide which candidates to support often centers on whether they prioritize their personal preferences or consider who can beat the opposing candidate. American research on voting behavior has largely focused on first-past-the-post (FPTP) elections. However, considering jurisdictions are adopting new electoral systems such as ranked-choice voting (RCV) this leads to several questions about the impact of system adoption on voter decision-making. Particularly, does the voter decision-making process differ depending on the system used? To investigate the impact of RCV on voter decision-making across electoral systems we conducted a survey experiment in a federal senate election. Our findings indicate that in comparison to FPTP elections, RCV elections may lead to decreases in both sincere and strategic voting. Instead, RCV appears to increase voter uncertainty around how to decide which candidates to support and leads to voters who appear to be neither sincere nor strategic.

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Sincere, Strategic, or Something Else? The Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting on Voter Decision Making Processes

Simmons,

Waterbury

2024

American Politics Research

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“…This rivalry also shaped descriptive representation. The party stopped slating women and blacks until it came to believe those groups would reliably provide transfers to the slate's other members (Burnham 1997(Burnham , p. 139, 2013Santucci, 2018b;cf. Benade, Buck, Duchin, Gold, & Soo, 2021).…”

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Variants of Ranked-Choice Voting from a Strategic Perspective

Santucci

2021

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Ranked-choice voting has come to mean a range of electoral systems. Broadly, they can facilitate (a) majority winners in single-seat districts, (b) majority rule with minority representation in multi-seat districts, or (c) majority sweeps in multi-seat districts. Further, such systems can combine with rules to encourage/discourage slate voting. This article describes five major versions used, abandoned, and/or proposed for US public elections: alternative vote, single transferable vote, block-preferential voting, the bottoms-up system, and alternative vote with numbered posts. It then considers each from the perspective of a ‘political strategist.’ Simple models of voting (one with two parties, another with three) draw attention to real-world strategic issues: effects on minority representation, importance of party cues, and reasons for the political strategist to care about how voters rank choices. Unsurprisingly, different rules produce different outcomes with the same sets of ballots. Specific problems from the strategist’s perspective are: ‘majority reversal,’ serving ‘two masters,’ and undisciplined third-party voters (or ‘pure’ independents). Some of these stem from well-known phenomena, e.g., ranking truncation and ‘vote leakage.’ The article also alludes to ‘vote-management’ tactics, i.e., rationing nominations and ensuring even distributions of first-choice votes. Illustrative examples come from American history and comparative politics. A running theme is the two-pronged failure of the Progressive Era reform wave: with respect to minority representation, then ranked voting's durability.

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“…While the most heavily black wards voted against PR in 1924, the local black newspaper and Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association supported it. 29 African Americans mounted independent candidacies as early as 1927, but none would gain (Republican) party endorsement (and election) until 1931. 30 One of the council's first acts was a zoning law to buttress property values in growing suburbs.…”

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Bad for Party Discipline: Why Unions Attacked the Single Transferable Vote in Cincinnati

Santucci¹

2017

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This paper documents conditions leading to the repeal of proportional representation in Cincinnati, which used the open-endorsement single transferable vote from 1925-57. I find that national AFL-CIO officials convened local Steelworkers to support the referendum. They did this because labor lost its privileged place in council decision-making, which it had gained in the late 1930s. The proximate cause was an independent Republican's refusal to vote with the rest of her caucus on labor legislation. By reconstructing coalitions in the Cincinnati council, 1925-57, I can organize otherwise dissonant facts -- such as the participation of racially liberal CIO leaders in an overtly racist campaign to change the voting system.

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Reform, Politics, and Race in Cincinnati

Cited by 11 publications

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Sincere, Strategic, or Something Else? The Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting on Voter Decision Making Processes

Sincere, Strategic, or Something Else? The Impact of Ranked-Choice Voting on Voter Decision Making Processes

Variants of Ranked-Choice Voting from a Strategic Perspective

Bad for Party Discipline: Why Unions Attacked the Single Transferable Vote in Cincinnati

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