A great deal of scholarship has explored why some democratic citizens vote while others do
not. This article reviews that literature through a lens presuming that a person's likelihood of …

A considerable body of work in political science is built upon the assumption that politicians
are more purposive, strategic decision makers than the citizens who elect them. At the same …

In 2016, 90% of young Americans reported an interest in politics. 80% intended to vote. Yet
only 43% of people between the ages of 18 and 29 ended up actually casting a ballot …

What explains the strategically costly and ill-planned American invasion and occupation of
Iraq? What accounts for Saddam Hussein's failure to take actions that might have deflected …

We test the possibility that political attitudes and behaviors are the result of both
environmental and genetic factors. Employing standard methodological approaches in …

The fact that many citizens fail to vote is often cited to motivate others to vote. Psychological
research on descriptive social norms suggests that emphasizing the opposite—that many do …

The consensus in the empirical literature on political participation is that education positively
correlates with political participation. Theoretical explanations posit that education confers …

The decision to vote has puzzled scholars for decades. Theoretical models predict little or no
variation in participation in large population elections and empirical models have typically …

This article uses longitudinal data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS) to
investigate the determinants of voter turnout in the 1997 British general election. It …

Fowler, Baker, and Dawes () recently showed in two independent studies of twins that voter
turnout has very high heritability. Here we investigate two specific genes that may contribute …