Title: Why Americans don't vote /
Authors: Piven, Frances Fox.; Cloward, Richard A.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Pantheon Books,
Physical description: xvii, 325 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: J
Abstract: Examines personal voter registration, describes its supporters, and what is needed to maintain an active electorate.
Contents: The politics of nonvoting -- Nineteenth-century electoral mobilization and demobilization -- How demobilization was accomplished -- Explanations of nonvoting -- The New Deal party system: continuities and breakdown -- The Reagan era: competition for new voters -- Prospects for voter registration reform -- New constituencies, new politics -- How many people are registered to vote? -- Do registrants vote? -- Misleading the public: the abuse of registration and voting statistics -- Current litigation challenging voter registration procedures / Cynthia A. Williams.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Poor--Political activity--United States.; Poor--United States--Political activity.; Voter registration--United States.; Voting--United States--Abstention.