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Introduction: Why Don’t Americans Vote? The History of the Franchise in the United States
1. Declining Trust and Efficacy and Its Role in Political Participation
2. Qualifying to Vote: Voter Registration Requirements
3. Digitizing Democracy: Online Voter Registration
4. Political Citizenship: Whether and Why College Students Vote
5. Nonprofit Voter Registration and the Limitations on Nonprofit Advocacy
6. Why Bother? Apathy in the American Electorate
7. It’s Not Convenient: Early and Weekend Voting
8. It’s Not Convenient: Absentee Voting and the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot
9. It’s Not Convenient: Should Other States Follow the Northwest and Vote by Mail?
10. Logistical Barriers to Voting
11. Voter Identification Requirements and Participation: A Cause for Alarm?
12. Barred from the Booth: Felony Disenfranchisement
13. Politics of Representation: The Two-Party System
14. Geography of Representation: Gerrymandering, Representation, and Turnout
15. Dynamics of Direct Democracy and Voter Turnout
16. Midterm Election Blues
17. Political Polarization: The Shift from the Middle
18. It’s Over before It Began: Pre-Election Polling and the Early Release of Election Results
19. Tenor of Modern Political Campaigns: Alienation and Voter Turnout
20. Mobilization through Third Party Groups
Appendix A.1: Voter Turnout in Presidential and Midterm Elections, 1789–2014
Appendix A.2: Constitutional Amendments
Appendix A.3: Probit Regression Model Predicting Voter Apathy Abstention
Appendix A.4: Demographics California VAAC Survey Respondents, 2012 and 2014 (in percentages)
Appendix A.5: California VAAC Respondent Voting Preferences, 2012 and 2014: Habits and Preferences (in percentages)
Appendix A.6: Alienation Survey Questions
Appendix A.7: Binary Logistic Analysis of Voter Turnout, 2008 and 2012
Appendix A.8: Models of Voter Registration and Turnout
About the Editors and Contributors
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