Research on the development of citizenship has been reinvigorated by considering
adolescents as participants actively engaged in, and interacting with, family, peers, teachers …

This study compares public servants and other citizens with regard to several important civic
attitudes and behaviors that are closely related to social capital. These attributes include …

In this article, we compare the 1996 turnout among cohorts of naturalized and native-born
Latino citizens, looking for between-group differences endogenous to recent anti-immigrant …

A decade ago, we contributed a chapter on political communication effects (McLeod,
Kosicki, & McLeod, 1994) to Bryant and Zillman's (1994) collection of essays on media …

In this chapter, we survey various areas of political communication research ranging from
micro-psychological effects to broader systemic effects. Relative to our chapter in Bryant and …

Little is known about the voting behavior of naturalized Americans, primarily due to a lack of
good quality data on the national level. Using data from the Voting and Registration …

This paper examines the pattern of change in turnout in elections and in the rate of voting of
different socioeconomic groups in the US. It shows that while the changing education and …

In this article, we address a number of unresolved questions about Latino electoral
participation. First, we examine differences between Latinos and other groups and establish …

Relatively little is known about the differences in voting behavior between immigrantsand
native-born Americans, primarily due to a lack of good quality data on the national level …

As survey response rates decline, correlates of survey participation may also be changing.
Panel studies provide an opportunity to study a rich set of correlates of panel attrition over …