Motivated Apathy: Non-Voting in US Midterm Elections, 2006-2014

• In Event: Psychological Mechanisms and Moderators of Turnout: Emotion, Extraversion, Apathy

Brief Overview

We develop a framework for understanding the circumstances motivating non-voting in US midterm elections, focusing on how perceptions of the integrity of state-level electoral processes inhibit would-be voters from ever casting a ballot.

Authors

• Nicholas J. Clark, Susquehanna University

• Rolfe Daus Peterson, Susquehanna University