Selected Determinants of Precinct Voting Decisions in School Budget Elections

Abstract

S OUND scientific method requires that any effort toward constructing a "grand theory" of voting be preceded by additional research into relatively neglected domains such as voting in local, nonpartisan elections. Research comparing individual or group correlates to voting in different types of elections' is sparse relative to the number of presidential election studies.2 Both this research and the aggregate of research testing important theoretical assumptions in different local election settings3 contain conflicting conclusions regarding such elemental hypotheses as the effect of social class on voter choice.