Why Do People Vote? Because They Are Registered
- 1 July 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Politics Quarterly
- Vol. 9 (3), 259-276
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1532673x8100900301
Abstract
This article separately investigates who registers to vote and who votes among the registered. Standard predictors of participation are much better predictors of registration than of voting among the registered. It is speculated that voting is stimulated by the act of registration.Keywords
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