TY - JOUR
T1 - Latino electoral participation
T2 - Variations on demographics and ethnicity
AU - Leighley, Jan
AU - Nagler, Jonathan
N1 - Funding Information:
Thanks to the Russell Sage Foundation for survey and conference support and to Elad Zippory for research assistance. Direct correspondence to: Jan Leighley at leighley@american.edu, American University, Department of Government, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016; and Jonathan Nagler at jonathan .nagler@nyu.edu, New York University, Department of Politics, 19 W. 4th St., New York, NY 10012.
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PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - Using the 2012 Latino Immigrant National Election Study, the 2012 American National Election Study, and the 2012 Current Population Survey, we document the demographic factors that influenced Latino (native-born and immigrant) voter turnout and participation in the 2012 presidential election. We estimate multivariable models of turnout and participation, including standard demographic characteristics (education, income, age, gender, marital status) as explanatory variables. Our findings indicate that the relationships between these characteristics and participation are much less consistent across these datasets than the conventional wisdom would suggest. Understanding these results likely requires survey data-with large sample sizes-including information on the resources (including education and income) available to immigrants in their home countries to better understand the lingering influences of immigrants' experiences in their countries of origin on voter turnout.
AB - Using the 2012 Latino Immigrant National Election Study, the 2012 American National Election Study, and the 2012 Current Population Survey, we document the demographic factors that influenced Latino (native-born and immigrant) voter turnout and participation in the 2012 presidential election. We estimate multivariable models of turnout and participation, including standard demographic characteristics (education, income, age, gender, marital status) as explanatory variables. Our findings indicate that the relationships between these characteristics and participation are much less consistent across these datasets than the conventional wisdom would suggest. Understanding these results likely requires survey data-with large sample sizes-including information on the resources (including education and income) available to immigrants in their home countries to better understand the lingering influences of immigrants' experiences in their countries of origin on voter turnout.
KW - 2012 presidential election
KW - Country of origin
KW - Immigrants
KW - Latino
KW - Party contact
KW - Political participation
KW - Socioeconomic status
KW - Voter turnout
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U2 - 10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.07
DO - 10.7758/RSF.2016.2.3.07
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85050856945
VL - 2
SP - 148
EP - 164
JO - RSF
JF - RSF
SN - 2377-8253
IS - 3
ER -