Where Have All the Voters Gone?

asks more of a typical person than is reasonable. Meanwhile, we must find ways to make the American electoral process more user-friendly.

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Summary

In this timely book, Martin Wattenberg confronts the question of what low participation rates mean for democracy. At the individual level, turnout decline has been highest among the types of people who most need to have electoral decisions simplified for them through a strong party system--those with the least education, political knowledge, and life experience.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Wattenberg, Martin P. Wattenberg, Wattenberg Martin P.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2002
• EAN: 9780674009387
• ISBN: 978-0-674-00938-7
• Weight: 290 g
• Illustrations: 6 line illustrations, 33 tables
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Politics & government, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, Elections and referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage