Who votes?

by Raymond E. Wolfinger, Steven J. Rosenstone

Represents a major contribution to the literature dealing with voting behavior in the United States...Combines the strong analytical skills of two scholars with a unique and revealing data set. The result is a sophisticated, highly quantitative, but most readable assessment of the sociological, motivational, and political factors that account for variation in electoral participation.

158 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1980

Reviews

[Maddie Tiare]

I didn't actually read this whole book, but I read part of it and enough academic journal articles on voting that I think it should count in my GoodReads reading challenge.

[Steven Peterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A terrific work outlining what we know about the factors driving whether or not people vote in elections. The authors do a fine job, statistically, of teasing out the variables shaping the propensity to vote. One of the more important works on the subject.

[Chipo]

Really good book for academics

[John Harvey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Old data

[Alan Wang · Rating 2 out of 5]

Foundational book in the analysis of voter turnout, but some issues with the statistical methods used and the available datasets have sinced expanded greatly