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Data from General Social Surveys are used to test the effect of voluntary association & church involvement on presidential-election turnout in the US, 1972-1992. The 1996 National Election Study (NES), supplemented by 1984, 1988, & 1992 NESs, is used to test the byproduct & direct mobilization theories. Findings suggest that both nonreligious & religious group activities are moderately important predictors of turnout in all elections. Increases in civic skills do not explain group effects, & the group effects of participatory predispositions & of direct mobilization are weak. Additional theories are needed to explain the relationship between voluntary & religious group involvement & turnout. An increase in sense of community may explain how group involvement stimulates turnout, or group activity & turnout may be manifestations of the same underlying social participation construct. 3 Tables, 34 References. Adapted from the source document.