April 06, 2007

The 2007 City Council Elections

Later this month the residents of our little town can go to the polls to vote for the city council. If the feel like it. But they shouldn't feel any pressure to. After all, there is only one candidate in every single one of the council districts. That's right, no one is opposed. Even in the two districts where incumbents are retiring, only one candidate filed for the job. Given my job I suppose it's natural for me to think - Isn't this a fabulous opportunity for some survey researcher, or for some poli sci type who likes natural experiments? There have to be some excellent research opportunities tied to voting behavior that occurs when there's no meaningful voting (in terms of affecting the outcome) to be done.

Posted by armand at April 6, 2007 02:46 PM | TrackBack | Posted to West Virginia


Comments

sounds like one of the coup ought to run in the next go-round. :-)

Posted by: moon at April 9, 2007 10:04 AM | PERMALINK

I'm out. I'm sure I once wrote a paper on Karl Marx in grad school. Doesn't that exempt me?

Posted by: binky at April 9, 2007 09:05 PM | PERMALINK

oh shit, really?! guess i better rethink my career plans. i never wrote directly on marx, but i'm reasonably certain i wrote on adorno for a young white radical male grad student instructor with a penchant for J Crew sweaters, and that's probably close enough.

Posted by: moon at April 10, 2007 09:47 AM | PERMALINK
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