Life Span Civic Development and Voting Participation
Life Span Civic Development and Voting Participation
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寿命公民发展和投票参与
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发表时间：
1989
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
C. Ford
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作者：
J. Strate;C. Parrish;Charles D. Elder;C. Ford
虽然已知各种与年龄有关的过程会影响成年人一生中的政治参与率，但人们对它们之间的相互关系和相对影响知之甚少。我们提出了一种终身公民发展理论，重点关注社区依恋、党派力量、教堂出席率、政府响应性、家庭收入和公民能力等与年龄相关的变化如何影响投票参与。为了验证这一理论，我们使用了九项全国选举研究的数据，结合成一个大型的横截面时间序列数据集，估计了结构方程模型的系数。该模型规定了与年龄相关的过程，并对大量其他变量的影响进行了控制。总体而言，与年龄相关的投票参与率增加中，约有一半可归因于这些过程。
Although a variety of age-related processes are known to affect rates of political participation over the adult life span, little is known about their interrelationships and relative impact. We set out a theory of life span civic development that focuses on how age-related changes in community attachment, strength of partisanship, church attendance, government responsiveness, family income, and civic competence impinge on voting participation. To test the theory, we estimated the coefficients of a structural equation model using data from nine National Election Studies combined into a large, cross-sectional time series data set. The model specifies the age-related processes and also controls for the effects of a large number of other variables. Overall, about one-half of the age-related increases in voting participation were attributable to these processes.