The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty
"We all know that Americans don't vote -- 51% turnout, what we saw for Bush-Gore in 2000, is about as good as we get, and in most elections (like the one on Tuesday, and certainly in Austin local races), we settle for far less," writes Mike Clark-Madison in his review of Thomas Patterson's The Vanishing Voter. But why?
Books, Nov. 8, 2002