TY - BOOK AU - Gans,Curtis AU - Mulling,Matthew ED - Sage eBooks TI - Voter turnout in the United States, 1788-2009 SN - 9781608712700 (ebook) : AV - JK1967 .G36 2011 U1 - 324.973 23 PY - 2011/// CY - Washington, D.C. PB - CQ Press KW - Elections KW - United States KW - History KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Specialized N2 - Based on research on participation in U.S. elections dating back to 1788, this work provides comprehensive turnout statistics for general and primary elections for presidential, congressional, and state gubernatorial races. Extensive graphs and tables detail over two centuries of trends. Voter turnout - the percentage of eligible citizens who cast ballots in a given election - offers insight into the health of American democracy at any given moment in time or over a span of years UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://sk.sagepub.com/cqpress/voter-turnout-in-the-united-states-1788-2009 ER -