Demonstrating how voter turnout can serve as an indicator of the health of a democracy, this study documents the conditions that can result in low voter turnout and suggests reforms that might alleviate these conditions. Mark Franklin concludes that declining turnout does not necessarily reflect reductions in civic virtue or increases in alienation. Franklin claims that turnout falls due to cumulating effects of institutional changes, a lack of competition in elections and a decision by a large proportion of the electorate not to participate as a response to the lack of competition.
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This book shows how voter turnout can serve as an indicator of the health of a democracy. It enumerates conditions that can result in low voter turnout and suggests reforms that might alleviate these conditions. Its innovative finding is that declining turnout does not reflect reductions in civic virtue or increases in alienation. Turnout falls, when it does, because of cumulating effects of institutional changes, because elections lack competitiveness, or because a larger proportion of the electorate pays attention to this lack of competitiveness.
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The puzzles alluded to in the Preface and Introduction to this volume come in two major varieties. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
turnout change, turnout evolution, executive responsiveness, electoral cohorts, turnout variations, house turnout, young initiation, fact that turnout, turnout puzzles, previous turnout, weekend voting, established cohorts, first few elections, average district magnitude, habitual nonvoters, past turnout, electorate size, campaign variables, church attendence, presidential turnout, party cohesiveness, predicted turnout, turnout decline, newer cohorts, habitual voters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The puzzles alluded to in the Preface and Introduction to this volume come in two major varieties. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
turnout change, turnout evolution, executive responsiveness, electoral cohorts, turnout variations, house turnout, young initiation, fact that turnout, turnout puzzles, previous turnout, weekend voting, established cohorts, first few elections, average district magnitude, habitual nonvoters, past turnout, electorate size, campaign variables, church attendence, presidential turnout, party cohesiveness, predicted turnout, turnout decline, newer cohorts, habitual voters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, World War, European Parliament, New Zealand, United Kingdom, European Union, House of Representatives, New Deal, Costa Rica, Midwest Political Science Association New!
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- The Rational Choice Controversy: Economic Models of Politics Reconsidered by Jeffrey Friedman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The American Voter by Angus Campbell in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Political Change in Britain by David E. Butler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Guide to Econometrics by Peter Kennedy in Back Matter
- Critical Elections and Congressional Policy Making (Stanford Studies in the New Political Hi) by David Brady in Back Matter
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