Elections

Tuition free for Texas women enrolled in UT campaign school

Jan. 17, 2022
It just became easier for women living in Texas to prepare to run for elected office.

From governor to city council: UT program helps 6 Texas women launch campaigns

Jan. 13, 2022
Elections coming up later this year in Texas will include some first-time candidates who all share one thing in common.

Elections 2020: LBJ School faculty experts

Oct. 26, 2020
Faculty from the LBJ School of Public Affairs are nationally and internationally recognized scholars and experts across a range of major policy topics, including the 2020 election at the local, state and federal levels.

Elections 2020: LBJ School faculty experts

Oct. 26, 2020
Faculty from the LBJ School of Public Affairs are nationally and internationally recognized scholars and experts across a range of major policy topics, including the 2020 election at the local, sta

Why Don't All Americans Vote and How Can We Change That?

Aug. 26, 2020
About 40 percent of Americans and half of the country's young adults did not vote in the 2016 presidential election and the numbers are even lower for non-presidential races. Why? Journalist and UT alumna Erin Geiger Smith answers that question and more in her new book, Thank you for Voting: The Maddening, Enlightening, Inspiring Truth About Voting in America. She joined us — along with Claudia Sandoval, a second-year graduate student at the LBJ School, and Alexis Tatum, a graduate of the Moody College of Communication — to discuss the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, and innovative ways to educate and motivate people to get out and vote.
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