From the award-winning author of Out of Order named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association comes this landmark book about why Americans don t vote.
Based on more than 80,000 interviews, The Vanishing Voter investigates why despite a better educated citizenry, the end of racial barriers to voting, and simplified voter registration procedures the percentage of voters has steadily decreased to the point that the United States now has nearly the lowest voting rate in the world. Patterson cites the blurring of...