Publications by authors named "Barry Burden"
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- The study investigates how voting behaviors change in older adults by analyzing data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study in connection with state voter files to track voting patterns over time.
- Researchers identified five voting types based on turnout and methods and explored how factors like health and wealth influence voting participation in later life.
- Findings reveal that both health and wealth positively relate to voter turnout, with healthier older adults more likely to vote in-person, while absentee voting is common among less healthy, wealthier individuals; emotional issues particularly hinder voting among those with less wealth.
Most people overestimate how many women have been elected to Congress and state legislatures, but this misinformation reduces with age. Multivariate analysis of our original survey data confirms that young people are prone to overestimating how many seats are held by women, and this pattern is especially sharp among male respondents. In addition, a memory of being represented by a woman in the past tends to inflate overestimates further.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhysical and mental health is known to have wide influence over most aspects of social life-be it schooling and employment or marriage and broader social engagement-but has received limited attention in explaining different forms of political participation. We analyze a unique dataset with a rich array of objective measures of cognitive and physical well-being and two objective measures of political participation, voting and contributing money to campaigns and parties. For voting, each aspect of health has a powerful effect on par with traditional predictors of participation such as education.
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