Why Don't Americans Vote? Causes and Consequences

Author Bridgett A. King - Kathleen Hale

Publisher ABC-CLIO

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Author

Bridgett A. King - Kathleen Hale

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ABC-CLIO

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Copyright

2016

ISBN13

9781440841163

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eBook

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9th Grade - College Senior

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This book begins with an introduction to elections that includes a discussion of the history of voting in the United States. Each subsequent chapter covers a different topic relative to registration and voting. It addresses matters of education as well as socialization, mobilization, and the legal and political structures that shape U.S. political participation.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contents.
Introduction: Why Don't Americans Vote? The History of the Franchise in the United States.
1: Declining Trust and Efficacy and Its Role in Political Participation.
2: Qualifying to Vote: Voter Registration Requirements.
3: Digitizing Democracy: Online Voter Registration.
4: Political Citizenship: Whether and Why College Students Vote.
5: Nonprofit Voter Registration and the Limitations on Nonprofit Advocacy.
6: Why Bother? Apathy in the American Electorate.
7: It's Not Convenient: Early and Weekend Voting.
8: It's Not Convenient: Absentee Voting and the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot.
9: It's Not Convenient: Should Other States Follow the Northwest and Vote by Mail?.
10: Logistical Barriers to Voting.
11: Voter Identification Requirements and Participation: A Cause for Alarm?.
12: Barred from the Booth: Felony Disenfranchisement.
13: Politics of Representation: The Two-Party System.
14: Geography of Representation: Gerrymandering, Representation, and Turnout.
15: Dynamics of Direct Democracy and Voter Turnout.
16: Midterm Election Blues.
17: Political Polarization: The Shift from the Middle.
18: It's Over before It Began: Pre-Election Polling and the Early Release of Election Results.
19: Tenor of Modern Political Campaigns: Alienation and Voter Turnout.
20: Mobilization through Third Party Groups.
21: Who Will Vote? The Election Administration Landscape in 2016 and Beyond.
Appendix A.1: Voter Turnout in Presidential and Midterm Elections, 1789–2014.
Appendix A.2: Constitutional Amendments.
Appendix A.3: Probit Regression Model Predicting Voter Apathy Abstention.
Appendix A.4: Demographics California VAAC Survey Respondents, 2012 and 2014 (in percentages).
Appendix A.5: California VAAC Respondent Voting Preferences, 2012 and 2014: Habits and Preferences (in percentages)*.
Appendix A.6: Alienation Survey Questions.
Appendix A.7: Binary Logistic
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