The Turnout Myth: Voting Rates and Partisan Outcomes in American National Elections Format: Paperback

Shaw, Daron ; Petrocik, John

ISBN 10: 0190089466 / ISBN 13: 9780190089467

Published by Oxford University Press, 2020

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• Title: The Turnout Myth: Voting Rates and Partisan Outcomes in American National Elections Format: Paperback
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190089466
• ISBN 13: 9780190089467
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Turnout Myth refutes the long and widely held convention that high voter participation advantages Democratic candidates while low involvement helps Republicans in national elections. This book examines over 50 years of presidential, gubernatorial, Senatorial, and House election data to show there is no consistent partisan effect associated with turnout. With a data-driven argument, Daron Shaw and John Petrocik demonstrate that the overall relationship between the partisan vote and turnout for these offices is uncorrelated.

About the Author

Daron Shaw is a Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin and co-director of the Fox News Poll, co-director of the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, director of the Texas Lyceum Poll, and associate Principle Investigator for the 2020 American National Election Study. He is author of The Race to 270 and co-author of Unconventional Wisdom (Oxford).

John Petrocik is Professor Emeritus Political Science at the University of Missouri and worked as a consultant and strategist for political campaigns. He co-authored Unconventional Wisdom (Oxford) and The Changing American Voter, winner of the American Political Science Association's 1976 Woodrow Wilson Award, and is the author of Party Coalitions.