The Practice of Voting: Immigrant Turnout, the Persistence of Origin Effects, and the Nature, Formation and Transmission of Political Habit

The Practice of Voting: Immigrant Turnout, the Persistence of Origin Effects, and the Nature, Formation and Transmission of Political Habit

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This dissertation is a multi-layered examination of the practice of voting, with a focus on the electoral turnout of immigrants. Chapter Two’s statistical analyses show that pre-migration cultural familiarity with democracy, formalized as levels of democratization in source countries, strongly shape...

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Main Author: Pikkov, Deanna
Other Authors: Myles, John
Language:en_ca
Published: 2011
Subjects:
voting
turnout
immigrant political participation
immigrant integration
political socialization
social learning theory
observational learning
action theory
practice theory
culture
habit
dual-process cognition
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31900

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