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- Title
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN A NONPARTISAN LOCAL ELECTION.
- Authors
Conway, M. Margaret
- Abstract
The article discusses that studies of political participation in the United States have identified a number of variables related to voting participation and to direction of the vote in partisan election contests. However, many offices at the local level are selected in nonpartisan elections, which have not been so extensively studied. Studies of nonpartisan elections have frequently been based on aggregate data and have emphasized variables for which aggregate data were easily available, such as class or social status and party identification in the parallel partisan system. Studies of the relationship of social class and party identification to voting turnout have reached conflicting conclusions about whether and to what degree they are related. Surveys have indicated other variables that may be useful in the analysis of voting behavior in nonpartisan elections. Although studies have examined in detail the influence of candidate and issue orientations on voting behavior in partisan elections, these two variables have been infrequently considered in analyses of nonpartisan elections, undoubtedly in part because of the unavailability of appropriate data.
- Subjects
UNITED States; POLITICAL participation; NONPARTISAN elections; LOCAL elections; SOCIAL classes; VOTING
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1969, Vol 33, Issue 3, p425
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/267726