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The Resilient Voter: Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior (Voting, Elections, and the Political Process) by Shauna Reilly; Stacy G. Ulbig is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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The Resilient Voter: Stressful Polling Places and Voting Behavior provides a new perspective on the role voting barriers play, demonstrating that they not only discourage participation but also affect the quality of votes cast. Offering an interesting and unique approach to the study of voting barriers, Shauna Reilly and Stacy G. Ulbig investigate the possibility that complicated ballot language, provisional voting, and long polling place lines cause some voters to cast ballots in a manner contradictory to their preferences. Building on arguments that stressful polling place conditions subject citizens to stress that can prevent them from casting complete ballots or even choosing to vote at all, the authors ask whether those who endure polling place frustrations and persevere to cast a ballot might become so stressed by their experience that they are unable to mark their ballots in a manner consistent with their standing policy preferences. Using a creative experimental design, the authors examine the ways in which complex ballot language, registration difficulties, and long polling place lines affect voters’ stress levels, and how such anxieties translate into the willingness to c

Author

Shauna Reilly; Stacy G. Ulbig

Publisher

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781498533539

Subjects

Political Science, Psychology, Social_sciences