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Where Have All the Voters Gone? / Martin P. Wattenberg.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2002Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674044951
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.973
LOC classification:
  • JK1976 ǂb W38 2002eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A Worldwide Turnout Problem -- 2. Turnout in the American States -- 3. Types of Individuals Who Vote -- 4. The New Generation Gap -- 5. Who Votes Does Make a Difference -- 6. How Voting Is Like Taking an SAT Test -- 7. Are Negative Ads to Blame? -- 8. How to Improve U.S. Turnout Rates: Lessons from Abroad -- Notes -- Index
Summary: In this timely book, Martin Wattenberg confronts the question of what low participation rates mean for democracy. At the individual level, turnout decline has been highest among the types of people who most need to have electoral decisions simplified for them through a strong party system--those with the least education, political knowledge, and life experience.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A Worldwide Turnout Problem -- 2. Turnout in the American States -- 3. Types of Individuals Who Vote -- 4. The New Generation Gap -- 5. Who Votes Does Make a Difference -- 6. How Voting Is Like Taking an SAT Test -- 7. Are Negative Ads to Blame? -- 8. How to Improve U.S. Turnout Rates: Lessons from Abroad -- Notes -- Index

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In this timely book, Martin Wattenberg confronts the question of what low participation rates mean for democracy. At the individual level, turnout decline has been highest among the types of people who most need to have electoral decisions simplified for them through a strong party system--those with the least education, political knowledge, and life experience.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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