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Tribulations, Triumphs, and Tentative Trajectories in the Study of Local Political Participation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2011

Christine Kelleher Palus
Affiliation:
Villanova University

Extract

Scholars of political science often lament the difficulties associated with finding the most appropriate data to test theories about how the political world works. The study of local political participation and, more broadly, elections is certainly no stranger to this quandary. However, considering that the nearly 90,000 units of local government generally hold regular elections for a wide array of political offices, this field of study should offer an embarrassment of riches; we should never be at a loss for a way to examine the questions that are central to the functioning of democracy.

Type
Symposium
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 2011

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