Vanishing Voter Public Involvment in an Age of Uncertainty

"Patterson puts forth a cogent, well-documented case that the four decades of decline in electoral participation...Despite the large number of interviews [conducted as research for this book], Patterson devotes little space to the actual ruminations of the voters, so his book comes across like a textbook, albeit one that is quite well written....THE VANISHING VOTER is a refreshing book, in part because, despite his distaste for how politics is practiced, Patterson does not come off sounding like a carping reformer who has not taken the time to try to understand the underlying causes of the problems he is complaining about.Patterson, Thomas E. is the author of 'Vanishing Voter Public Involvment in an Age of Uncertainty', published 2002 under ISBN 9780375414060 and ISBN 0375414061.