UID:
almahu_9947414517402882
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 227 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139058513 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Political economy of institutions and decisions
Content:
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 of social ties between potential voters. Potential voters who move in larger social circles, particularly those including politicians and other mobilizing actors, have more access to the flurry of electoral activity prodding citizens to vote and increasing political discussion. Treating voting as a socially defined practice instead of as an individual choice over personal payoffs, a social theory of participation is derived from a mathematical model with behavioral foundations that is empirically calibrated and tested using multiple methods and data sources.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Voter turnout -- Conditional choice -- The social meaning of voting -- Conditional cooperation -- Conditional voters -- The social theory of turnout -- Education and high salience elections -- Mobilization and turnout in low salience elections -- Paradox lost.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107015418
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139058513
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