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Chapter Eight Political Participation
From State to Federal Control ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Expanding the Franchise ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Nonvoting ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Figure 8.2: Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1860-2004 For 1860-1928: Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, 1071; 1932-1944: Statistical Abstract of the United State, 1992, 517; 1948-2000: Michael P. McDonald and Samuel L. Popkin, "The Myth of the Vanishing Voter," American Political Science Review 95 (December 2001): table 1, 966.
Table 8.3: Two Methods of Calculating Turnout in Presidential Elections, 1948-2000
Voter Turnout ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Six Kinds of US Citizens ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Six Kinds of US Citizens ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Table 8.5: How Citizens Participate
Predictors of Participation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Predictors of Participation ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Figure 8.5: Electoral/Nonelectoral Political Participation Among Anglo Whites, African Americans, and Latinos Adapted from Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Scholzman, Henry Brady, and Norman H. Nie,  Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics , (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995).
Factors That Decrease Turnout ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Factors That Decrease Turnout ,[object Object],[object Object]
Participation Other Than Voting ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Figure 8.3: Nonpolitical Voluntary Activity Among Citizens Sidney Verba et al.,  Voice and Equality: Civic Volunteerism in American Politics  (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), 77-79.
Table 8.6: Participation Beyond Voting in Fourteen Democracies
What Participation Rates Mean ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

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  • 1. Chapter Eight Political Participation
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  • 5. Figure 8.2: Voter Participation in Presidential Elections, 1860-2004 For 1860-1928: Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, part 2, 1071; 1932-1944: Statistical Abstract of the United State, 1992, 517; 1948-2000: Michael P. McDonald and Samuel L. Popkin, "The Myth of the Vanishing Voter," American Political Science Review 95 (December 2001): table 1, 966.
  • 6. Table 8.3: Two Methods of Calculating Turnout in Presidential Elections, 1948-2000
  • 7.
  • 8.
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  • 10. Table 8.5: How Citizens Participate
  • 11.
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  • 13. Figure 8.5: Electoral/Nonelectoral Political Participation Among Anglo Whites, African Americans, and Latinos Adapted from Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Scholzman, Henry Brady, and Norman H. Nie, Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics , (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995).
  • 14.
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  • 17. Figure 8.3: Nonpolitical Voluntary Activity Among Citizens Sidney Verba et al., Voice and Equality: Civic Volunteerism in American Politics (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995), 77-79.
  • 18. Table 8.6: Participation Beyond Voting in Fourteen Democracies
  • 19.