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Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty
Vintage
November 2003
On Sale: November 9, 2003
288 pages
ISBN: 0375713794
EAN: 9780375713798
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Non-Fiction Political
From the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best
political science book of the last decade by the American
Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about
why Americans don’t vote. Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voter
investigates why—despite a better educated citizenry, the
end of racial barriers to voting, and simplified voter
registration procedures—the percentage of voters has
steadily decreased to the point that the United States now
has nearly the lowest voting rate in the world. Patterson
cites the blurring of differences between the political
parties, the news media’s negative bias, and flaws in the
election system to explain this disturbing trend while
suggesting specific reforms intended to bring Americans back
to the polls. Astute, far-reaching, and impeccably
researched, The Vanishing Voter engages the very meaning of
our relationship to our government.
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