Voter Turnout: A Social Theory of Political Participation

by Meredith Rolfe

Book Overview

This book develops and empirically tests a social theory of political participation. It overturns prior understandings of why some people (such as college-degree holders, churchgoers and citizens in national rather than local elections) vote more often than others. The book shows that the standard demographic variables are not proxies for variation in the individual costs and benefits of participation, but for systematic variation in the patterns...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107617987
• ISBN13: 9781107617988
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"