Becoming a Habitual Voter: Inertia, Resources, and Growth in Young Adulthood

By E. Plutzer. American Political Science Review, 2002

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Gender ideology construction from adolescence to young adulthood (2007, background): “…religious service attendance during young adulthood may not be as strong an indicator of community embeddedness for adolescents as it is for adults (Plutzer, 2002), a suggestion borne out by the inconsistent findings among previous research on young adult gender ideology (Fan and Marini, 2000;…”
The Source of Turnout Decline (2013, background): “Franklin’s starting premise is that there is a strong inertia, or habitual, component to voting and that overall changes in turnout are triggered by changes taking place among the newly enfranchised (p. 66; also see Plutzer, 2002).”
Efficacy, Emotions and the Habit of Participation (2009, background): “Plutzer (2002) proposes a developmental theory which argues that individuals start out with resources bequeathed by their parents and grandparents, and then develop participatory habits based on their experiences in the first few elections after reaching voting age.”
Habitual Voting and Behavioral Turnout (2006, background): “Empirically, most people either vote all the time or abstain all the time (Miller and Shanks 1996; Plutzer 2002; Verba and Nie 1972).”
A Cautionary Note on the Use of Matching to Estimate Causal Effects: An Empirical Example Comparing Matching Estimates to an Experimental Benchmark (2010, background): “Past voting history is an especially important covariate since it mediates the other attitudinal and demographic determinants of voting for which we do not possess data (Plutzer 2002).”
Patience as a Political Virtue: Delayed Gratification and Turnout (2006, background): “To capture SES, we include variables such as age, gender, and race, as well as subjects’ reports of parental income and education, since parental characteristics are influential in the development of turnout behavior among young people (Plutzer, 2002).”
Altruism and Turnout (2006, background): “However, the first few years of adulthood are probably the most critical for the formation of habitual political behavior (Highton and Wolfinger 2001; Plutzer 2002).”
Turnout as a Habit (2011, methodology): “Plutzer (2002) used panel data to show an effect of past behavior on future performance independent of political resources, psychological engagement in politics, and the costs of voting.”
Why Does the Apple Fall Far from the Tree? How Early Political Socialization Prompts Parent-Child Dissimilarity (2013, methodology): “46 Plutzer 2002.”
Labour Market Disadvantage, Political Orientations and Voting: How Adverse Labour Market Experiences Translate into Electoral Behaviour (2015, background): “The propensity to participate and underlying political orientations are often found to be rather stable and only affected by significant disruptive experiences (Plutzer, 2002; Prior, 2010).”
Political participation and the accessibility of the ballot box (2003, background): “A number of studies have shown that younger citizens between the ages of 18 and 29 are far less likely to vote than older voters who have settled down, acquired a stake in their communities, and then establish habits of regular participation (Rosenstone & Hansen, 1993; Plutzer, 2002).”
Two Genes Predict Voter Turnout (2008, positive): “The Add Health sample is restricted to individuals who are 18–26 years old during Wave III, so it is possible that our results apply only to the initiation of turnout behavior in young adults and not to its subsequent development as people age (Plutzer 2002).”