how compulsory voting makes minnesota even more awesome
DESCRIPTION
As part of my MA program in Organizational Leadership at St. Catherine University, I recently took a strategic communications class. Over the course of the class, I applied different written and oral treatments to my chosen topic of compulsory voting. I explored the political and civic culture of Minnesota and potential channels for advocacy. This is the deck for my persuasive speech.TRANSCRIPT
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How Compulsory Voting Makes Minnesota Even More AwesomeErica MauterORLD 6300 – Strategic Communication
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Minnesota is Exceptional
Engagement + Political
Culture
Compulsory Voting
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Minnesota is Exceptional
Strong Women
Good-Looking Men
Above-Average Children
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Minnesota is Exceptional
Low unemployment
Most theater seats per capita
Highly educated workforce
Teams in all major professional sports
Low rate of uninsured
Parks and lakes
Fortune 500 company headquarters
Minnesota Miracle
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Minnesota is Exceptional
53,339 donors
$16,391,905
4,381 Nonprofits
24 hours
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Minnesota is Exceptional
Engagement + Political
Culture
Compulsory Voting
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Civic Engagement
Sense of community
Perceived ability to improve community
Volunteerism
Voter turnout
Civic Engagement – Overview – Minnesota CompassRetrieved from: http://www.mncompass.org/civicengagement/index.php
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Moralistic Political Culture
Politics as……an effort to exercise power for the betterment of the commonwealth.…a public activity centered on some notion of the public good.…a matter of duty and concern for every citizen.
Daniel J. Elazar: “Minnesota: The epitome of the moralistic political culture”Retrieved from: http://jcpa.org/dje/articles2/minn3.htm
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Engagement = CultureCivic Engagement
sense of community
perceived ability to improve community
volunteerism
voter turnout
Moralistic Political Culture
exercise power for the betterment of the commonwealthpublic activity centered on some notion of the public goodduty and concern for every citizen
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Minnesota is Exceptional
Engagement + Political
Culture
Compulsory Voting
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What CV Does
Enfranchisement
Re-aligns priorities
Changes the focus of campaign time and money
Makes people talk more about elections
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How CV Helps
Better GovernmentRepresentativeLegitimateResponsive
Reflects and reinforces “one vote, one value”
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CV Won’t Hurt
Existing Civic DutiesTaxes
K-12 Education
Jury duty
Selective Service
Health insurance
Conscientious Objection, Right NOT to Vote
Revenue
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Minnesota is Exceptional
Engagement + Political
Culture
Compulsory Voting
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CV: Love It or Hate It?
Let’s put it in the constitution!
I still need to know more.
I shall not be compelled to vote.