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Author : Bernard L. Fraga
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108475198
Persistent racial/ethnic gaps in voter turnout produce elections that are increasingly unrepresentative of the wishes of all Americans.
Author : Davin L. Phoenix
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108485906
Anger can be a powerful political resource, but it mobilizes black and white Americans differentially to exacerbate political inequality.
Author : John B. Holbein,D. Sunshine Hillygus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108488426
The solution to youth voter turnout requires focus on helping young people follow through on their political interests and intentions.
Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191053320
The dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends. More people in the established democracies are participating in civil society activity, contacting government officials, protesting, and using online activism and other creative forms of participation. At the same time, the importance of social status as an influence on political activity is increasing. The democratic principle of the equality of voice is eroding. The politically rich are getting richer-and the politically needy have less voice. This book assembles an unprecedented set of international public opinion surveys to identify the individual, institutional, and political factors that produce these trends. New forms of activity place greater demands on participants, raising the importance of social status skills and resources. Civil society activity further widens the participation gap. New norms of citizenship shift how people participate. And generational change and new online forms of activism accentuate this process. Effective and representative government requires a participatory citizenry and equal voice, and participation trends are undermining these outcomes. The Participation Gap both documents the growing participation gap in contemporary democracies and suggests ways that we can better achieve their theoretical ideal of a participatory citizenry and equal voice.
Author : Jan E. Leighley,Jonathan Nagler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400848621
Who Votes Now? compares the demographic characteristics and political views of voters and nonvoters in American presidential elections since 1972 and examines how electoral reforms and the choices offered by candidates influence voter turnout. Drawing on a wealth of data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and the American National Election Studies, Jan Leighley and Jonathan Nagler demonstrate that the rich have consistently voted more than the poor for the past four decades, and that voters are substantially more conservative in their economic views than nonvoters. They find that women are now more likely to vote than men, that the gap in voting rates between blacks and whites has largely disappeared, and that older Americans continue to vote more than younger Americans. Leighley and Nagler also show how electoral reforms such as Election Day voter registration and absentee voting have boosted voter turnout, and how turnout would also rise if parties offered more distinct choices. Providing the most systematic analysis available of modern voter turnout, Who Votes Now? reveals that persistent class bias in turnout has enduring political consequences, and that it really does matter who votes and who doesn't.
Author : Joshua J Dyck,Edward L Lascher
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131198
Arguments about the American ballot initiative process date back to the Progressive Era, when processes allowing citizens to decide policy questions directly were established in about half of the states. When political scientists began to systematically examine whether the state ballot initiative process had spillover consequences, they found the initiative process had a positive impact on civic engagement. Recent scholarship casts doubt on these conclusions, determining the ballot initiative process did not make people believe they could influence the political process, trust the government, or be more knowledgeable about politics in general. However, in some circumstances, it got them to show up at the polls, and increased interest groups’ participation in the political arena. In Initiatives without Engagement, Dyck and Lascher develop and test a theory that can explain the evidence that the ballot initiative process fails to provide the civic benefits commonly claimed for it, and the evidence that it increases political participation. This theory argues that the basic function of direct democracy is to create more conflict in society.
Author : Aina Gallego
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107023536
"Political equality is an essential political ideal and it is the cornerstone of moral justifications of democracy. Most people would agree with the proposition that the interests and preferences of each citizen must be given equal consideration in the political process because no person is intrinsically superior to others in ways that can justify preferential consideration. A second premise is that each person is the best judge of her own interests and preferences and is capable of expressing them, hence ruling out an enlightened ruler as the best interpreter of citizens' preferences. Taken together, these two claims provide a powerful case for democracy. Only in electoral democracies can all citizens, in principle, have an equal influence in the political process(Dahl 1971, 2008; Przeworski 2010)"--
Author : Mark R. Joslyn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190064822
"To understand public opinion and political behavior, researchers typically sort people by self-identified groupings such as party identification, race, gender, education and income. This book advances gun owners as a new classification. It demonstrates a "gun gap", which captures the differences between gun owners and non-gun owners, and shows how this gap improves conventional models of political behavior. The gun gap in fact represents an important explanation for voter choice, voter turnout, perceptions of personal and public safety, preferences for gun control policies, and support for the death penalty. Moreover, the gun gap is growing. During the 1970s and 1980s, the gap was small. However, legislative battles over guns in the early 1990s marked a significant growth in the gun gap that continues to this day. The 2016 presidential election witnessed the largest recorded gun gap in history. The gun gap in voter choice was nearly three times larger in 2016 than the gender gap, and exceeded age and education gaps by notable margins. This book also focuses on variation among gun owners. Gun owners are not a monolith but exhibit attitudinal and behavioral differences that can be as large as the gap between gun and non-gun owners. The gun gap thus affords a new and compelling vantage point to evaluate modern mass politics"--
Author : Christina Wolbrecht,J. Kevin Corder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107187498
Examines how and why American women voted since the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
Author : Lois Duke Whitaker
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252092855
This book concentrates on the gender gap in voting--the difference in the proportion of women and men voting for the same candidate. Evident in every presidential election since 1980, this polling phenomenon reached a high of 11 percentage points in the 1996 election. The contributors discuss the history, complexity, and ways of analyzing the gender gap; the gender gap in relation to partisanship; motherhood, ethnicity, and the impact of parental status on the gender gap; and the gender gap in races involving female candidates. Voting the Gender Gap analyzes trends in voting while probing how women's political empowerment and gender affect American politics and the electoral process. Contributors are Susan J. Carroll, Erin Cassese, Cal Clark, Janet M. Clark, M. Margaret Conway, Kathleen A. Dolan, Laurel Elder, Kathleen A. Frankovic, Steven Greene, Leonie Huddy, Mary-Kate Lizotte, Barbara Norrander, Margie Omero, and Lois Duke Whitaker.
Author : Nichole M. Bauer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108836326
Women need to be significantly more qualified than men to win political office. This book explains how voter biases and informational asymmetries combine to disadvantage female candidates. It is for scholars and lay readers who are interested in gender and politics, campaigns and elections, political psychology, and political communication.
Author : Meredith Rolfe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107015418
This book combines positive political theory, social network research and computational modeling, explaining why some people are more likely to vote than others.
Author : Allison P. Anoll
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226812571
Many argue that “civic duty” explains why Americans engage in politics, but what does civic duty mean, and does it mean the same thing across communities? Why are people from marginalized social groups often more likely than their more privileged counterparts to participate in high-cost political activities? In The Obligation Mosaic, Allison P. Anoll shows that the obligations that bring people into the political world—or encourage them to stay away—vary systematically by race in the United States, with broad consequences for representation. Drawing on a rich mix of interviews, surveys, and experiments with Asian, Black, Latino, and White Americans, the book uncovers two common norms that centrally define concepts of obligation: honoring ancestors and helping those in need. Whether these norms lead different groups to politics depends on distinct racial histories and continued patterns of segregation. Anoll’s findings not only help to explain patterns of participation but also provide a window into opportunities for change, suggesting how activists and parties might better mobilize marginalized citizens.
Author : Martin P. Wattenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317347026
This book focuses on the root causes of the generation gap in voter turnout—changes in media consumption habits over time. It lays out an argument as to why young people have been tuning out politics in recent years, both in the United States and in other established democracies.
Author : Toby S James,Holly Ann Garnett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0367509512
This book defines the concept of inclusive voting practices to refer to policy instruments which can reduce turnout inequality between groups and mitigate other inequalities within the electoral process. Studies from around the world then examine how policies can affect inclusivity on election day.