کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1052182 946376 2009 10 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The dynamic effects of education on voter turnout
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی علوم اجتماعی جغرافیا، برنامه ریزی و توسعه
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The dynamic effects of education on voter turnout
چکیده انگلیسی

In this paper I investigate the dynamic relationship between formal education and voter turnout over the past half century. I reframe Brody's puzzle about why rising education levels did not produce higher voter turnout using The American Voter's “funnel of causality” to allow for a dynamic relationship between education and turnout. Analyzing survey data from 1952 to 2004, I show that the effect of college education increased starting in 1980s, thereby magnifying the ability of educational attainment to predict turnout. In contrast, education had a constant effect on political knowledge, another common measure of civic engagement. I conclude by evaluating several explanations for these divergent results.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Electoral Studies - Volume 28, Issue 4, December 2009, Pages 540–549
نویسندگان
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