‘Stereotyping’ Voters: Manipulating Voter Validation to Reveal the Motivational Source of Voting Behavior

• In Event: JSS 13
  In JSS Session: Protest, Legitimacy, Linkages

Brief Overview

Using stereotype regression, I categorize the American electorate into four distinct groups based on their susceptibility to exogenous pressures to vote. I show this is an improvement over Campbell’s core and periphery model using data from CCES.

Author

• Misty Dawn Parker, The University of Texas at Dallas