Why do minorities participate less? The effects of immigration, education, and electoral process on Asian American voter registration and turnout

Xu, Jun

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2004.11.002

Cited by 76 publications

(43 citation statements)

References 38 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Wong et al (2011) examine these hypotheses using data from the 2008 National Asian American Survey to show that more recent immigrants and those educated abroad are less likely to participate politically at the individual level, supporting prior research that has likewise shown that immigration-related factors are significant predictors of reduced Asian American political participation (Lien 1994;Lien et al 2001Lien et al , 2004Ramakrishnan 2005;Wong et al 2011). More specifically, recent work suggests that these effects are strongest in stunting Asian American voter registration rather than voting turnout itself ( Jang 2009, Lien et al 2004, Xu 2005. Taken together, this body of research suggests that a lack of exposure to the US political process and the absence of the instrumental skills necessary for participation may work in combination with voter registration constraints and requirements to suppress group-level patterns among Asian American voters.…”

Section: Political Participationmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Yet despite its relevance for black and Hispanic groups, SES resource theory has proven unable to explain the paradox of Asian American political behavior: Despite their high levels of income and education, Asian Americans lag noticeably behind other groups in their rates of political participation (Lien et al 2004;Uhlaner et al 1989;Xu 2002Xu , 2005. For example, voter registration among Asian Americans has been documented to be as low as 28%, a figure that pales in comparison to that of non-Hispanic whites and African Americans, registered at 67% and 64%, respectively.…”

Section: Political Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Racialized Assimilation of Asian Americans

2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Because of the generally high socioeconomic attainments and high intermarriage rates of Asian Americans, it has been suggested that Asian American are reaching parity with whites and are assimilating to mainstream American society. However, other research shows the continued significance of race for Asian Americans regardless of their socioeconomic status and levels of acculturation. This article provides a review of recent research on socioeconomic attainment and intermarriage among Asian Americans as well as an overview of research on less studied but increasingly important indicators: residential outcomes, political participation, and mental health. We argue that Asian Americans are indeed assimilating but in ways that differ from their European predecessors. In this process, racial/ethnic boundaries between Asians and whites may be solidified rather than dissolved, thus maintaining the significance of race for Asian Americans. We suggest that a racialized assimilation framework may best characterize the experiences of contemporary Asian Americans. 11.1

show abstract

Section: Political Participationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Political Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racialized Assimilation of Asian Americans

2016

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Several recent studies note the need to treat voting as a two-stage process of registering to vote and then casting a vote on Election Day (Timpone 1998;Xu 2005;Fullerton and Borch 2008).'' There is also the potential for selection bias in the second equation (voter turnout), because the sample of registered voters is often systematically different from the larger votingeligible population.…”

Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining the Persistence and Eventual Decline of the Gender Gap in Voter Registration and Turnout in the American South, 1956-1980

Fullerton¹,

Stern²

2010

Social Science History

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recent studies of the gender gap in politics tend to focus on candidate choice rather than registration and turnout. This shift in focus away from gender inequality in political participation may he due to rhe finding in several studies of U. S. voting hehavior since Î980 that différences in rates of registration and voting between men and women are modest and not statistically significant after controlling for traditional predictors of participation. However, we argue that researchers have overlooked the substantial gender gap w registration and voting in the South. While the gender gap in participation virtually disappeared outside the South hy the 1950s, substantial gender differences in ' rates of voter registration and turnout remained in the South throughout the 1950s and l9ñ0s. We test several explanations for the persistence of the gender gap in registration ami voting in the South in the ¡950s and ¡9ôOs and why it began to decline in the 1970s. These explanations include female lahor force participation, resources, mobilization, and political engagement. Using American National Election Studies data for every presidential election year from 1956 to 1980. we employ heteroscedastic probit models within a cross-classifted multilevel age-period-cohort framework to examine the declining gender gap in voter registration and turnout in the South. The results indicate that the decline of the gender gap is due to converging rates of political engagement and employment for women and men in the South during this time period. We conclude with a discussion of the theoretical implications.Sociat Science History .'i4:2 (Summer 2010)

show abstract

“…those born in Canada) to have a stronger attachment to "their" country than Canadians who came to Canada as immigrants. Native-born Canadians are more familiar with the political institutions and parties in their country; they have become politically socialized in their home country, and they have developed partisan attachments, all of which should contribute to higher turnout (Xu 2005). However, due to data unavailability on the percentage of naturalized citizens, we have to employ a suboptimal proxy variable for the percentage of naturalized citizens, namely the percentage of the population within any district that have not been Canadian citizens from birth.…”

Section: Variables and Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

Fair weather voters: do Canadians stay at home when the weather is bad?

Stockemer

Wigginton

2018

Int J Biometeorol

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

What is the relationship between precipitation and the temperature on turnout? Using data on the 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, and 2015 Canadian federal elections, we try to answer this question. Through bivariate and multi-variate statistics, we find that each millimeter of precipitation decreases turnout by more than .1 percentage points. When it comes to the temperature our results indicate that that higher temperatures trigger higher turnout. However, we also find that these relationships only apply to spring, summer and fall elections. In the winter 2006 elections, the association was different; warmer temperatures in this election triggered lower turnout, except in the absence of precipitation.

show abstract

Why do minorities participate less? The effects of immigration, education, and electoral process on Asian American voter registration and turnout

Cited by 76 publications

References 38 publications

Racialized Assimilation of Asian Americans

Racialized Assimilation of Asian Americans

Explaining the Persistence and Eventual Decline of the Gender Gap in Voter Registration and Turnout in the American South, 1956-1980

Fair weather voters: do Canadians stay at home when the weather is bad?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About