The spatial diffusion of social conformity: the case of voting participation

Stephen Coleman

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Social interaction combined with social conformity spreads attitudes and behaviors through a society. This paper examines such a process geographically for compliance with the norm that good citizens should vote. The diffusion of conformist behavior affects the local degree of conformity with the norm and produces highly specific and predictable patterns of behavior across a country. These are demonstrated with qualitative and quantitative spatial analysis of voter turnout in the United States and Russia.

Keywords: social conformity; norm compliance; voting; spatial analysis, United States; Russia; mathematical model; diffusion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 D72 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-06-03
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