Absolutely Relative: How Education Shapes Voter Turnout in the United States.

IF 2.8 2区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Yeaji Kim
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Why has voter turnout in the United States not increased proportionally with educational attainment over time? Relative education theories have attempted to answer this question by highlighting how the value of individuals' education may be influenced by the educational levels achieved by others. For instance, individuals may attain a higher level of education compared to previous generations, but the relative value of their education may not improve if society as a whole also achieves higher levels of education. Thus, this increased educational attainment may have little influence on voter turnout. Using a new measure of relative education and incorporating more recent post-2000 data, this research finds that while the relative education model explains the education-turnout relationship prior to 2000, since then individuals with a higher absolute level of education have been more likely to vote, regardless of the relative value of their education. The rise in voter turnout over the past two decades could be attributed to this increase in the absolute level of education.

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绝对相对:教育如何影响美国选民投票率。
为什么随着时间的推移,美国的选民投票率没有随着教育程度的增加而成比例地增加?相对教育理论试图通过强调个人教育的价值如何受到他人所达到的教育水平的影响来回答这个问题。例如,与前几代人相比,个人可能获得更高的教育水平,但如果整个社会也获得更高水平的教育,他们的教育相对价值可能不会提高。因此,教育程度的提高可能对选民投票率影响不大。这项研究使用了一种新的相对教育衡量标准,并结合了2000年后的最新数据,发现虽然相对教育模型解释了2000年前的教育投票率关系,但从那时起,无论教育的相对价值如何,绝对教育水平较高的人都更有可能投票。过去二十年来,选民投票率的上升可以归因于教育绝对水平的提高。
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6.30
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6.50%
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174
期刊介绍: Since its foundation in 1974, Social Indicators Research has become the leading journal on problems related to the measurement of all aspects of the quality of life. The journal continues to publish results of research on all aspects of the quality of life and includes studies that reflect developments in the field. It devotes special attention to studies on such topics as sustainability of quality of life, sustainable development, and the relationship between quality of life and sustainability. The topics represented in the journal cover and involve a variety of segmentations, such as social groups, spatial and temporal coordinates, population composition, and life domains. The journal presents empirical, philosophical and methodological studies that cover the entire spectrum of society and are devoted to giving evidences through indicators. It considers indicators in their different typologies, and gives special attention to indicators that are able to meet the need of understanding social realities and phenomena that are increasingly more complex, interrelated, interacted and dynamical. In addition, it presents studies aimed at defining new approaches in constructing indicators.
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