Voter turnout a social theory of political participation
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 d...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2012
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| Series: | Political economy of institutions and decisions
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Voter turnout
- Conditional choice
- The social meaning of voting
- Conditional cooperation
- Conditional voters
- The social theory of turnout
- Education and high salience elections
- Mobilization and turnout in low salience elections
- Paradox lost