The Effects of Voter Registration and Declining Political Party Competition on Turnout in the United States of America, 1880-1916
My dissertation explains the extent to which electoral institutions and declining political party competition precipitated a steep decline in U.S. turnout after 1896 from which the nation never recovered. Turnout dropped from 83 to 66 percent in less than ten years. This is a persistent puzzle in po...
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| Language: | English |
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2014
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8Q52MSS |