Measuring Local Citizen Participation- An MRP Approach

• In Event: Local Political Participation

Brief Overview

In this paper, we use MRP to develop estimates of local political participation in the United States. We then compare our three measures to county level turnout, county level social capital, and city level turnout in California.

Authors

• David Switzer, University of Missouri

• Nathan Favero, American University

• Joohyung Park, American University