The gun gap : the influence of gun ownership on political behavior and attitudes / Mark R. Joslyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joslyn, Mark R., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Firearms owners--Political activity--United States.

Firearms owners.

Firearms owners--United States--Attitudes.

Political participation--United States.

Political participation.

Firearms ownership--United States.

Firearms ownership.

Firearms ownership--Political aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

To understand public opinion and political behaviour, researchers typically sort people by self-identified groupings such as party identification, race, gender, education, and income. This book advances gun owners as a new classification. It demonstrates a "gun gap," which captures the differences between gun owners and nonowners, and shows how this gap improves conventional models of political behaviour. The gun gap in fact represents an important explanation for voter choice, voter turnout, perceptions of personal and public safety, preferences for gun control policies, and support for the death penalty. Moreover, the gun gap is growing. The 2016 presidential election witnessed the largest recorded gun gap in history. The gun gap in voter choice was nearly three times larger in 2016 than the gender gap, and it exceeded age and education gaps by notable margins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also issued in print: 2020.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2020).

ISBN:

0-19-006486-2

0-19-006484-6