Models of voter turnout: a brief idiosyncratic review

✍ Scribed by Bernard Grofman

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1983
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 231 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0048-5829
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00124049

✦ Synopsis

Models of voter turnout: a brief idiosyncratic review* A comment BERNARD GROFMAN** There are two rather different traditions that have looked at the question "Why do citizens vote?" One tradition describes/predicts turnout in terms of demographic and attitudinal characteristics-often by looking for the multivariate regression equation with highest r 2 based on some subset of the variable list in the ICPSR codebook (i.e., every variable known to political science). 1 In one variant of this tradition, voting is treated as just one of a large class of potential forms of political participation (including, e.g., writing a letter to one's Congressman, making a campaign contribution, throwing a pie at the President, etc.). 2 * This manuscript was typed by the Word Processing Center of the School of Social Sciences, UCI. I gratefully acknowledge the bibliographic assistance of Sue Pursche.