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Abstract
This study addressed the implications for electoral participation of the contextual shift from a presidential to a midterm election. Both descriptive and multivariate analyses indicated that the greater stimulus of presidential years is especially important for facilitating the participation of young adults and recent movers. The complementary conclusion is that the lower level of stimuli in midterms is especially detrimental to the participation of these same two categories of citizens. In large measure, the presidential stimulus elevates the turnout of young adults and recent movers by encouraging these citizens to overcome the registration hurdle.
Acknowledgements
I thank Gerald Wright, Marjorie Hershey, and Leroy Rieselbach for helpful comments. Most of the data used in this analysis were taken from the National Election Studies Cumulative Data File collected by the Center for Political Studies of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan and distributed through the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. Neither the original collectors of the data nor the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research bear any responsibility for the investigations and interpretations presented in the study.