Research Note on Political Correlates of Voter Participation: A Deviant Case Analysis

Gerald W. Johnson

American Political Science Review, 1971, vol. 65, issue 3, 768-776

Abstract: This note attempts to show the explanatory limits of current generalizations about political participation behavior by analyzing a deviant case (West Virginia). Voter participation patterns in West Virginia cannot be explained in terms of traditional research findings based on socioeconomic variables. The present study therefore suggests a research framework that complements the customary socioeconomic and political output analysis. Its thesis, broadly stated, is that political style, culture, and organizational variables must be included in any paradigm that attempts to explain the relationships between state political systems and voting behavior patterns. The West Virginia data support this thesis.

Date: 1971
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