Voter turnout has puzzled political scientists ever since Anthony Downs postulated the
paradox of voting. Despite decades of research aiming to understand what drives citizens to …

A great deal of scholarship has explored why some democratic citizens vote while others do
not. This article reviews that literature through a lens presuming that a person's likelihood of …

This article documents the diversity of political attitudes and voting patterns along the urban-
rural continuum of the United States. We find that America's rural and urban interface, in …

Familiar urban sights: the pub regular on his stool, beer mug in hand, or the young couple
shining out on the dance floor, or the improvising musicians in a jazz clubthese are …

Interpersonal communication presents a methodological challenge and a research
opportunity for researchers involved in field experiments. The challenge is that …

I study the effects of voting costs—specifically, distance to polling location—using
geographic discontinuities. Opposite sides of boundaries between voting precincts are …

Although many have hypothesized that neighborhoods and social context are important
influences on the decision to vote, the data to study these phenomenon have often been …

Our research uses principal component analysis and information on 33 different state
election laws, assembled in seven different issue areas, to create a Cost of Voting Index …

Forms of convenience voting—early in-person voting, voting by mail, absentee voting,
electronic voting, and voting by fax—have become the mode of choice for> 30% of …

The study of local politics has been relegated to the periphery of political science and many
explanations have been offered for the marginalization of the subfield. I offer three related …