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Easy Registration and Voter Turnout
- B. Highton
- EconomicsThe Journal of Politics
- 1 May 1997
Registration requirements are often identified as factors that depress turnout in the United States In addition, it is alleged that they contribute to the "socioeconomic skew" of the voting…
How Does Multilevel Regression and Poststratification Perform with Conventional National Surveys?
- Matthew K. Buttice, B. Highton
- BusinessPolitical Analysis
- 1 October 2013
Multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP) is a method to estimate public opinion across geographic units from individual-level survey data. If it works with samples the size of typical…
Voter Registration and Turnout in the United States
- B. Highton
- Political SciencePerspectives on Politics
- 1 September 2004
In a democracy, voting is the most fundamental act of political participation and therefore holds a central location in the study of political behavior. One significant research tradition focuses on…
The First Seven Years of the Political Life Cycle
- B. Highton, R. Wolfinger
- Law
- 2001
One of the most noteworthy characteristics of American elections is the low turnout of young people. Hypotheses purporting to explain this phenomenon focus on life-cycle transitions that define…
Revisiting the Relationship between Educational Attainment and Political Sophistication
- B. Highton
- EducationJournal of Politics
- 1 October 2009
In politics, those who are politically sophisticated are advantaged in a variety of ways relative to those who are not. This paper analyzes the causes of political sophistication paying particular…
Prejudice Rivals Partisanship and Ideology When Explaining the 2008 Presidential Vote across the States
- B. Highton
- SociologyPS: Political Science & Politics
- 28 June 2011
Abstract This article demonstrates that racial prejudice was strongly related to the state-level nonblack vote in the 2008 presidential election, which featured the first African American candidate…
The Long-Term Dynamics of Partisanship and Issue Orientations
- B. Highton, Cindy D. Kam
- Business
- 2011
Partisanship and issue orientations are among the foundational concepts for behavioral researchers. We seek to understand their causal relationship. One view suggests that party identification, as a…
The Political Implications of Higher Turnout
- B. Highton, R. Wolfinger
- EconomicsBritish Journal of Political Science
- 1 January 2001
Rich Americans, far more likely to vote than their poorer fellow citizens, also differ in how they vote and what policies they favour. These undisputed facts lead to the widespread belief ‘that if…
Residential Mobility, Community Mobility, and Electoral Participation
- B. Highton
- Psychology
- 1 June 2000
This article investigates why Americans who move have lower voter turnout than those who stay put. Two hypotheses are drawn from the political science literature. One emphasizes the need to register…
Voter Identification Laws and Turnout in the United States
- B. Highton
- Economics
- 11 May 2017
This article analyzes voter identification laws in the United States and their effects on voter turnout. Theoretically, there are plausible reasons to hypothesize turnout lowering effects, though…
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