In an effort to provide policy-makers and the general public with a clearer view of the problem of non-voting and possible solutions, the author of this book addresses questions such as "why is voter turnout generally so low?", and, "does low turnout significantly affect the nature of contemporary US politics?".
Ruy A Teixeira is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and the Center for American Progress, as well as a fellow of the New Politics Institute. He is the coauthor, with John B. Judis, of The Emerging Democratic Majority, selected by the Economist as one of the best books of 1992. He is also the coauthor, with Joel Rogers, of America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters (Brookings, 2001).
"Ruy Teixeira has produced a well-written, thoughtful analysis of the decline in voter participation in America. The Disappearing Voter will be a valuable reference for all those who seek to address the problem." --Curtis B. Gans, Committee for the Study of the American Electorate "A splendid new book. Teixeira has though long and deeply about the decline in turnout in American elections and what can be done to change it. The results is a masterful effort with important and sound advice to the country." --John H. Aldrich, Duke University "This book is a fine piece of work. Its conclusions are well supported; its methodology is sound; and it is well written." --Richard A. Brody, Stanford University "This is a very solid and professional piece of work in an area loaded with both data and interpretative minefields. It gives an excellent overview of the problem and proposals for it amelioration, and likely to rank among the best book-length treatments of the subject to appear with in the last decade." --Walter Dean Burnham, University of Texas at Austin
"With great clarity and insight, Ruy Teixeira tells us why Americans don't vote,and lays waste to much conventional wisdom in the process." -Richard Morin, The Washington Post |"Ruy Teixeira has produced a well-written, thoughtful analysis of the decline in voter participation in America. The Disappearing Voter will be a valuable reference for all those who seek to address the problem." -Curtis B. Gans, Committee for the Study of the American Electorate |"A splendid new book. Teixeira has though long and deeply about the decline in turnout in American elections and what can be done to change it. The results is a masterful effort with important and sound advice to the country." -John H. Aldrich, Duke University |"This book is a fine piece of work. Its conclusions are well supported; its methodology is sound; and it is well written." -Richard A. Brody, Stanford University |"This is a very solid and professional piece of work in an area loaded with both data and interpretative minefields. It gives an excellent overview of the problem and proposals for it amelioration, and likely to rank among the best book-length treatments of the subject to appear with in the last decade." -Walter Dean Burnham, University of Texas at Austin
