03668nam 22007332 450 991081757730332120151005020622.01-107-23021-71-139-21005-X1-280-87768-597866137189901-139-22302-X1-139-21822-01-139-22474-31-139-21513-21-139-22131-01-139-05851-7(CKB)2670000000172115(EBL)833491(OCoLC)783176498(SSID)ssj0000614012(PQKBManifestationID)11386674(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000614012(PQKBWorkID)10587612(PQKB)10746968(UkCbUP)CR9781139058513(MiAaPQ)EBC833491(Au-PeEL)EBL833491(CaPaEBR)ebr10574335(CaONFJC)MIL371899(EXLCZ)99267000000017211520110316d2012|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierVoter turnout a social theory of political participation /Meredith Rolfe[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2012.1 online resource (xv, 227 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Political economy of institutions and decisionsTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-61798-7 1-107-01541-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Voter turnout -- Conditional choice -- The social meaning of voting -- Conditional cooperation -- Conditional voters -- The social theory of turnout -- Education and high salience elections -- Mobilization and turnout in low salience elections -- Paradox lost.This book develops and empirically tests a social theory of political participation. It overturns prior understandings of why some people (such as college-degree holders, churchgoers and citizens in national rather than local elections) vote more often than others. The book shows that the standard demographic variables are not proxies for variation in the individual costs and benefits of participation, but for systematic variation in the patterns of social ties between potential voters. Potential voters who move in larger social circles, particularly those including politicians and other mobilizing actors, have more access to the flurry of electoral activity prodding citizens to vote and increasing political discussion. Treating voting as a socially defined practice instead of as an individual choice over personal payoffs, a social theory of participation is derived from a mathematical model with behavioral foundations that is empirically calibrated and tested using multiple methods and data sources.Political economy of institutions and decisions.Voter turnoutSocial aspectsPolitical participationSocial aspectsVoter turnoutSocial aspectsUnited StatesPolitical participationSocial aspectsUnited StatesVoter turnoutSocial aspects.Political participationSocial aspects.Voter turnoutSocial aspectsPolitical participationSocial aspects324.601Rolfe Meredith1971-1647017UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910817577303321Voter turnout3994352UNINA