Democracy and Disenfranchisement
Lanning, Kevin (Florida Atlantic University, USA) / Hoyle, Rick H. (Duke University, USA)
Psychologists, political scientists, and experts in election law present a multidisciplinary perspective on voting.Personality characteristics such as motivation, values, and efficacy are considered, as are demographic variables such as education, age, and social classExamines the reciprocal relationship that exists in the functions of voting for individual and society: the interplay between persons and institutions gives rise to the perceptio...