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Civic Literacy and Falling Electoral Turnout: The United Kingdom 1992-1997

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2003

C. J. Pattie  and
R. J. Johnston
C. J. Pattie
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
R. J. Johnston
Affiliation:
University of Bristol, United Kingdom
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Aggregate cross-national analyses of political participation have reported correlations between civic literacy, political knowledge and election turnout. Enhancing civic literacy among Canadian voters, in part by encouraging greater newspaper readership in the general population, has been put forward as a strategy for combating falling turnout in national general elections. The idea is evaluated comparatively at the level of individual voters, using data from the British Election Study. Newspaper readership is related to political knowledge, but increased newspaper reading does not translate into a greater propensity to vote.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2003 , pp. 579 - 599
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© The Canadian Political Science Association (l'Association canadienne de science politique) and/et la Société québécoise de science politique

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