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The resilient voter : stressful polling places and voting behavior / Shauna Reilly and Stacy G. Ulbig.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reilly, Shauna, 1980- author.
- Ulbig, Stacy G., author.
- Series:
- Voting, elections, and the political process
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voting--United States.
- Voting.
- Political psychology.
- Polling places.
- United States.
- Polling places--United States.
- Elections--United States.
- Elections.
- Political participation--United States.
- Political participation.
- Political psychology--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 179 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
- Summary:
- Authors Reilly and Ulbig explore the ways in which stressful polling place conditions cause voters to cast ballots in a manner contradictory to their preferences. Using an experimental approach, they find that even though voters generally withstand such conditions, certain segments of the electorate can still be adversely affected.
- Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Voting barriers: the obstacle course of electoral participation
- Sweating the vote: polling place stress as a voting barrier
- Studying polling place stress: an experimental approach
- Can you read me? ballot access complexity and voter behavior
- Does a placebo ballot lead to a voting headache? provisional ballots and voter behavior
- The waiting is the hardest part? polling place wait times and voter behavior
- Are the barriers higher for some voters? the conditional effects of polling place stressors
- Dealing with polling place stressors: conclusions and implications
- Appendix a: subject recruitment
- Appendix b: pre-test survey
- Appendix c: post-test, mock election ballot
- Appendix d: measures, coding, and distribution of responses
- Bibliography
- About the authors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Reilly, Shauna, 1980- Resilient voter.
- ISBN:
- 9781498533522
- 1498533523
- OCLC:
- 1014036017
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