TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leighley,Jan E.
AU  - Nagler,Jonathan
TI  - Who Votes Now?: Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States 
SN  - 9780691159348
AV  - JK1967 .L45 2017
U1  - 324.973 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Elections
KW  - United States
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Voter turnout
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American National Election Studies
KW  - Current Population Survey
KW  - U.S presidential elections
KW  - U.S. Census Bureau
KW  - U.S. presidential elections
KW  - absentee voting
KW  - conditional relationships
KW  - demographics
KW  - election laws
KW  - election reform
KW  - electoral reforms
KW  - electorate
KW  - electrion law
KW  - income bias
KW  - inequality
KW  - nonvoters
KW  - policy choices
KW  - policy positions
KW  - redistributive issues
KW  - representation
KW  - state electoral rules
KW  - voter behavior
KW  - voter registration laws
KW  - voter registration
KW  - voter representation
KW  - voter turnout
KW  - voting
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; One. Introduction --; Two. Demographics of Turnout --; Three. Theoretical Framework and Models --; Four. The Legal Context of Turnout --; Five. Policy Choices and Turnout --; Six. On the Representativeness of Voters --; Seven. Conclusion --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
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