Voter Turnout in Runoff Elections
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 385-396
ISSN: 1468-2508
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 385-396
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Journal of labor research, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 221-236
ISSN: 1936-4768
In: American political science review, Band 80, Heft 1, S. 17-43
ISSN: 1537-5943
Despite relatively favorable citizen attitudes, voter turnout in American national elections is far below the average of 80% of the eligible electorate that votes in other industrialized democracies. The American institutional setting—particularly the party system and the registration laws—severely inhibits voter turnout, and probably also accounts for the unusual degree to which education and other socioeconomic resources are directly linked to voting participation in the United States.Using a combination of aggregate and comparative survey data, the present analysis suggests that in comparative perspective, turnout in the United States is advantaged about 5% by political attitudes, but disadvantaged 13% by the party system and institutional factors, and up to 14% by the registration laws. The experience of other democracies suggests that encouraging voter participation would contribute to channeling discontent through the electoral process. Even a significantly expanded American electorate would be more interested and involved in political activity than are present voters in most other democracies.
In: American politics quarterly, Band 14, Heft 1-2, S. 89-104
ISSN: 1532-673X
This research examines the effects of election calendars and ballot forms on voter turnout. The ballot attractiveness hypothesis predicts that concurrent senatorial and gubernatorial races on a presidential-year ballot increase the likelihood that citizens will vote. The evidence in 1980 is that this hypothesis is true with respect to gubernatorial elections. The election frequency hypothesis predicts that the more frequently elections are scheduled, the less likely it is that citizens will vote in any of them. Presidential and state primaries are a major source of frequent elections. In 1980, presidential primaries, in particular those instituted since 1968, did depress turnout. Runoff primaries depressed turnout as well. State primaries held separately from presidential primaries did not depress turnout by an additional significant amount. These findings are based on validated turnout in the 1980 CPS Election Study.
In: American politics quarterly, Band 9, Heft 2, S. 161-180
ISSN: 1532-673X
Declining levels of participation in elections and especially presidential elections, have prompted greater interest among academics and policy makers in the sources and practical consequences of low turnout. This article shows that although nonvoters have many characteristics which mark them as Democratic voters, there is no reason to believe that high turnout elections, especially at the presidential level, would benefit Democratic candidates. The lower levels of involvement and commitment which characterize chronic nonvoters and peripheral voters would simply promote greater interelection oscillation if these voters began to turn out.
In: American political science review, Band 81, Heft 1, S. 45-65
ISSN: 1537-5943
We examine the characteristics of a largely ignored low-turnout group—people who have recently moved. We find that neither demographic nor attitudinal attributes explain their lower turnout. Instead, the requirement that citizens must register anew after each change in residence constitutes the key stumbling block in the trip to the polls. Since nearly one-third of the nation moves every two years, moving has a large impact on national turnout rates. We offer a proposal to reduce the effect of residential mobility on turnout and estimate that turnout would increase by nine percentage points if the impact of moving could be removed. The partisan consequences of such a change would be marginal.
In: The Brookings review, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 28
In: Polity, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 143-149
ISSN: 1744-1684
In: American journal of political science, Band 26, Heft 1, S. 25
ISSN: 1540-5907
In: Midwest journal of political science: publication of the Midwest Political Science Association, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 351
In: Voter Behavior in Economics Perspective; Studies in Contemporary Economics, S. 187-217
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 167-181
ISSN: 1475-6765
Abstract. This paper examines the record of western democracies to measure the impact of differing electoral formulae on the rate of voter turnout. The record of 509 national elections in 20 countries provides the basis for a regression analysis that clearly identifies higher turnout rates in PR systems that cannot be explained by a wide variety of control variables or traditional arguments about PR. The data also reveal a marked increase in electoral turnout over the last century.
In: Public choice, Band 84, Heft 1-2, S. 91-117
ISSN: 1573-7101
In: The public opinion quarterly: POQ, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 64
ISSN: 1537-5331
In: American journal of political science, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 615
ISSN: 1540-5907