Shauna Reilly, Stacy G. Ulbig

The Resilient Voter

Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Authors Reilly and Ulbig explore the ways in which stressful polling place conditions cause voters to cast ballots in a manner contradictory to their preferences. Using an experimental approach, they find that even though voters generally withstand such conditions, certain segments of the electorate can still be adversely affected.

Produktdetails

• Voting, Elections, and the Political Process
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781498533522
• ISBN-10: 1498533523
• Artikelnr.: 50446704

Autorenporträt

Shauna Reilly is associate professor of political science at Northern Kentucky University. Stacy Ulbig is professor of political science at Sam Houston State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Voting Barriers: The Obstacle Course of Electoral Participation
Chapter 2: Sweating the Vote: Polling Place Stress as a Voting Barrier
Chapter 3: Studying Polling Place Stress: An Experimental Approach Chapter
4: Can You Read Me? Ballot Access Complexity and Voter Behavior Chapter 5:
Does a Placebo Ballot Lead to a Voting Headache? Provisional Ballots and
Voter Behavior Chapter 6: The Waiting is the Hardest Part? Polling Place
Wait Times and Voter Behavior Chapter 7: Are the Barriers Higher for Some
Voters? The Conditional Effects of Polling Place Stressors Chapter 8:
Dealing with Polling Place Stressors: Conclusions and Implications Appendix
A: Subject Recruitment Appendix B: Pre-Test Survey Appendix C: Post-Test,
Mock Election Ballot Appendix D: Measures, Coding, and Distribution of
Responses Bibliography