Turnout Myth
«The Turnout Myth should be mandatory reading for political scholars and election analysts.»
D. Sunshine Hillygus, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Duke University
When voter turnout is high, Democrats have an advantage-or so the truism goes. But, it is true? In The Turnout Myth, Daron Shaw and John Petrocik refute the widely held convention that high voter participation benefits Democrats while low involvement helps Republicans. Les mer
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national elections. Instead, less-engaged citizens' responses to short-term forces-candidate appeal, issues, scandals, and the like-determine election turnout. Moreover, Republican and Democratic candidates are equally affected by short-term forces. The consistency of these effects suggests that partisan conflict
over eligibility, registration, and voting rules and regulations is less important for election outcomes than both sides seem to believe. Featuring powerful evidence and analytical acumen, this book provides a new foundation for thinking about U.S. elections.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780190089450
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«The Turnout Myth should be mandatory reading for political scholars and election analysts.»
D. Sunshine Hillygus, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Duke University
«This book scrutinizes one of the oldest and most deeply held pieces of conventional wisdom about American elections: that election outcomes depend a great deal upon turnout rates and Democrats benefit from higher turnout. Shaw and Petrocik's careful, thorough analysis utterly refutes this claim. It is dead, and it is not coming back. Rather, they find that an old, almost forgotten explanation — surge and decline — more strongly connects turnout and election outcomes.»
D. Roderick Kiewiet, Professor of Political Science, California Institute of Technology