Voter Turnout - A Social Theory of Political Participation

Informationen zum Autor Meredith Rolfe held a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowship at Nuffield College prior to becoming a Senior Research Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her dissertation was awarded the Mancur Olsen Dissertation Grant by the APSA Political Economy section. Rolfe has been awarded grants by the National Science Foundation, the British Academy, Oxford's John Fell Fund, the EU-sponsored Equalsoc Framework and the Oxford University Centre of Corporation Reputation. Her work has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly and L'Année Sociologique, and she was an invited contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Analytical Sociology and the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Reputation. Klappentext This book combines positive political theory, social network research and computational modeling, explaining why some people are more likely to vote than others. Zusammenfassung A combination of positive political theory! social network research and computational modeling! explaining why some people are more likely to vote than others. Most do not weigh the costs and benefits of participation! but instead rely on largely automatic decision rules that are conditional on the decisions of their friends and family. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Conditional choice; 3. The social meaning of voting; 4. Conditional cooperation; 5. Conditional voters; 6. The social theory of turnout; 7. Education and high salience elections; 8. Mobilization and turnout in low salience elections; 9. Paradox lost.

Product details

• Authors: Meredith Rolfe, Meredith (London School of Economics and Po Rolfe, Rolfe Meredith
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.02.2012
• EAN: 9781107015418
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01541-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political Economy, Elections and referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage