PARTISAN MOBILIZATION AND ELECTORAL-PARTICIPATION

Electoral participation typically has been investigated without consideration of the impact of political mobilization. We construct a more complete measure of participation in elections-voting in and for governor, senator, treasurer and state supreme court justices in Ohio in 1986. We seek to demonstrate unmistakably that the efforts of political parties and candidates stimulate voting participation, even when we take into account other standard determinants. We draw our data from the 1986 Ohio Political Survey. And, we show that, ceteris paribus, the contacts of citizens with party or campaign workers, as well as information about the campaign, have a significant impact on the degree of electoral participation. © 1990.