Inter-Party Competition and Electoral Turnout
The Case of Indiana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6231907 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Richard Hofstetter (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 351 |
| Publication date | 1973-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2110524 |
| OpenAlex | W1995659523 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
Systematic longitudinal and cross-sectional quantitative analysis brings the power of statistics to bear on a significant political and historical question that has been subject to considerable speculation due to inadequate empirical grounding. The purpose of this study is to investigate one such question, the impact of inter-party competition on electoral turnout. Aggregate analyses of party competition and turnout that have used differing units of analysis have shown discrepant findings. In contrast, this study focuses on the relationship between competitiveness and turnout for counties in a state political system for elections between 1876-1968. Disagreement concerning the effect of inter-party competition on electoral turnout appears to be contingent on the particular political units that are used in analysis and the extent to which the relationship between competition and turnout for states as the unit of analysis, for instance, have been positive.' Unfortunately, these findings have not
Competition (biology · Demographic economics · Economics · Macroeconomics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Speculation · Turnout · Voter turnout · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.98 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1983 - 2016 (34) |
| Highly cited | No |