Leighley / Nagler Who Votes Now?

Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4862-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Leighley, Jan E.

Nagler, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures xi

List of Tables xiii

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xix

One Introduction 1

1.1 Economic Inequality, Income Bias, and Turnout 4

1.2 Policy Choices and Turnout 6

1.3 Economic Inequality and Voting Inequality 7

1.4 Voter Turnout and Election Laws 10

1.5 Data and Chapter Outline 11

Two Demographics of Turnout 16

2.1 Measuring Voter Turnout 18

2.2 Measuring Socioeconomic Status 23

2.3 Measuring Race and Ethnicity 25

2.4 Demographics of Turnout, 1972-2008 (CPS) 27

2.5 A More or Less Representative Voting Population? 35

2.6 More or Less Income Bias? 37

2.7 Representation: Of the Eligible or the Available? 43

2.8 Conclusion 45

Appendix 2.1: Current Population Survey: Sample and Variable Details 46

Appendix 2.2: Additional Data on the Representativeness of Voters, 1972-2008 48

Three Theoretical Framework and Models 52

3.1 Costs, Benefits, and Demographics 54

3.2 Model Specification 55

3.3 Education and Income 58

3.4 Race and Ethnicity 67

3.5 Age 72

3.6 Gender and Marital Status 76

3.7 Conclusion 79

Appendix 3.1: Estimation Results for the Demographic Models of Voter Turnout 84

Appendix 3.2: Additional First Differences for Income 88

Four The Legal Context of Turnout 90

4.1 Electoral Innovation in the United States 91

4.2 Previous Research on Electoral Rules and Turnout 95

4.3 Research Design and the Search for Effects 97

4.4 The Effects of Electoral Reforms: Difference-in-Difference Estimates 100

4.5 Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis of Aggregate Turnout 112

4.6 Conclusion 117

Appendix 4.1: Voter Registration and Election Law Data Set 119

Appendix 4.2: Sources of State-Level Turnout and

Demographic Data 120

Five Policy Choices and Turnout 121

5.1 Policy Choices and the Costs and Benefits of Voting 122

5.2 Policy Choices: Conceptualization and Measurement 124

5.3 Perceived Policy Choices, 1972-2008 126

5.4 Multivariable Analysis: Perceived Policy Alienation and Perceived Policy Difference 128

5.5 Perceived Policy Difference and Perceived Policy Alienation across Income Groups 135

5.6 Conclusion 139

Appendix 5.1: Comparing Alternative Measures of Alienation and Indifference 147

Six On the Representativeness of Voters 154

6.1 The Conventional Wisdom 155

6.2 Political Differences between Voters and Nonvoters: 1972 and 2008 158

6.3 Who Votes Matters: Policy Differences between Voters and Nonvoters 161

6.4 A More Detailed Look at Preferences: 2004 167

6.5 Conclusion 176

Appendix 6.1: Survey Question Wording 177

Seven Conclusion 182

7.1 The Politics of Candidate Choices and Policy Choices 183

7.2 Turnout and Institutions 185

7.3 On Turnout and Political Inequality 187

References 189

Index 201

Über Autor(innen)

Jan E. Leighley is professor of political science at American University. She is the author of Strength in Numbers?: The Political Mobilization of Racial and Ethnic Minorities (Princeton) and Mass Media and Politics: A Social Science Perspective. Jonathan Nagler is professor of politics at New York University. He is an inaugural fellow of the Society for Political Methodology.