LEADER 03668nam 22007332 450 001 9910790141903321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-107-23021-7 010 $a1-139-21005-X 010 $a1-280-87768-5 010 $a9786613718990 010 $a1-139-22302-X 010 $a1-139-21822-0 010 $a1-139-22474-3 010 $a1-139-21513-2 010 $a1-139-22131-0 010 $a1-139-05851-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000172115 035 $a(EBL)833491 035 $a(OCoLC)783176498 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000614012 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386674 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000614012 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10587612 035 $a(PQKB)10746968 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139058513 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC833491 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL833491 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10574335 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL371899 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000172115 100 $a20110316d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVoter turnout $ea social theory of political participation /$fMeredith Rolfe$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 227 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aPolitical economy of institutions and decisions 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-61798-7 311 $a1-107-01541-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aVoter 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. 330 $aThis book develops and empirically tests a social theory of political participation. It overturns prior understandings of why some people (such as college-degree holders, churchgoers and citizens in national rather than local elections) vote more often than others. The book shows that the standard demographic variables are not proxies for variation in the individual costs and benefits of participation, but for systematic variation in the patterns of social ties between potential voters. Potential voters who move in larger social circles, particularly those including politicians and other mobilizing actors, have more access to the flurry of electoral activity prodding citizens to vote and increasing political discussion. Treating voting as a socially defined practice instead of as an individual choice over personal payoffs, a social theory of participation is derived from a mathematical model with behavioral foundations that is empirically calibrated and tested using multiple methods and data sources. 410 0$aPolitical economy of institutions and decisions. 606 $aVoter turnout$xSocial aspects 606 $aPolitical participation$xSocial aspects 606 $aVoter turnout$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aPolitical participation$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 615 0$aVoter turnout$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aPolitical participation$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aVoter turnout$xSocial aspects 615 0$aPolitical participation$xSocial aspects 676 $a324.601 700 $aRolfe$b Meredith$f1971-$01479337 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790141903321 996 $aVoter turnout$93695408 997 $aUNINA