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Voter Turnout: Comparative Perspectives

Voter Turnout: Comparative Perspectives

Rolfe, Meredith

Hardcover

Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1107015413
ISBN13: 9781107015418
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Feb 13 2012
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This book develops and empirically tests a social theory of political participation. It overturns prior understandings of why some people (such as college-degree holders, churchgoers, and citizens in national rather than local elections) vote more often than others. The book shows that the standard demographic variables are not proxies for variation in the individual costs and benefits of participation, but for systematic variation in the patterns of social ties between potential voters. Potential voters who move in larger social circles, particularly those including politicians and other mobilizing actors, have more access to the flurry of electoral activity prodding citizens to vote and increasing political discussion. Treating voting as a socially-defined practice instead of as an individual choice over personal payoffs, a social theory of participation is derived from a mathematical model with behavioral foundations that is empirically calibrated and tested using multiple methods and data sources.

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