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Who Votes Now? : Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States / Jan E. Leighley, Jonathan Nagler.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Course BookDescription: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 44 line illus. 26 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691159348
  • 9781400848621
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.973 23
LOC classification:
  • JK1967 .L45 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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