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- Title
UNDERSTANDING LOCAL POLITICAL BEHAVIOR: THE ROLE OF THE OLDER CITZEN.
- Authors
SMITH, JOEL; TURK, HERMAN; MYERS, HOWARD P.
- Abstract
The article offers information on local political behavior in the U.S. and how old citizens participate in the country's politics. It investigates some perspectives, highlighting the political behavior which include the nature of processes which lead to political arrangement, the restricted nature of new data offering classical theories of politics, and enlarging scope of behavioral studies of politics. It informs that aged people hold on to a democratic ideology which is based on the belief that proper and wise political decisions are made only by collective choices of an informed and fully participating electorate. It criticizes such a social system for its operating political structure in which large number of citizens do not participate in politics.
- Subjects
UNITED States; POLITICAL participation; OLDER people; POLITICAL rights; POLITICAL systems; COMMUNITY involvement; SOCIAL systems; PRACTICAL politics; POLITICAL movements; COMMUNITY relations
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1962, Vol 27, Issue 2, p280
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1190548