Why Americans Don't Vote: Turnout Decline in the United States, 1960-1984

Ruy Teixeira

Bloomsbury Academic, Jul 13, 1987 - Political Science - 149 pages

Why Americans Don't Vote is a well-crafted and well-executed piece of research. It stands as the best treatment of the topic, a topic that has received a good deal of attention. I recommend this book highly, both to those interested in understanding political participation and to those interested in modelling change in attitudes and behaviors generally.
Contemporary Sociology

About the author

Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, politics editor of The Liberal Patriot newsletter and a contributing columnist at the Washington Post. He is the coauthor of The Emerging Democratic Majority and America’s Forgotten Majority, as well as the author of The Optimistic Left, among other titles. Teixeira holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Why Americans Don't Vote: Turnout Decline in the United States, 1960-1984; Issue 172 of Contributions in Political Science, ISSN 0147-1066; Volume 172 of Why Americans Don't Vote
• Author: Ruy Teixeira
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 1987
• ISBN: 0313255326, 9780313255328
• Length: 149 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections