The Turnout Rate among Eligible Voters in the States, 1980–2000
2002 ◽
Vol 2
(2)
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pp. 199-212
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Aggregate voter turnout rates in the United States have been used in many political science studies, as both a dependent and an independent variable. Most of these studies use the voting-age population as the denominator in their turnout rate measure. However, the voting-age population is not the same as the population of eligible voters. I demonstrate why this distinction matters and outline the steps to construct the voting-eligible population for each of the states from 1980–2000 to provide more accurate measures of state-level voter turnout rates.
2012 ◽
Vol 45
(01)
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pp. 78-82
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2020 ◽
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2020 ◽
Vol 52
(36)
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pp. 3976-3997
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