Liz Schwartz

The Vanishing Voter by Thomas E. Patterson

The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty Thomas E. Patterson, Shorenstein Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Alfred A. Knopf Publishers, September, 2002 During the 2000 presidential campaign with the support of a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy conducted the most exhaustive study […]

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The Vanishing Voter Project: 2000 and 2004

The Vanishing Voter Project was based at the Shorenstein Center during the 2000 and 2004 campaigns. Through research, the project tried to understand the factors that affect public involvement and to use this information to propose constructive changes in the election process. In 2000, the Vanishing Voter Project centered on weekly national surveys designed to

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