Political Recruitment and Dropout: Predictive Success of Background Characteristics Over Five British Localities
- 27 January 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in British Journal of Political Science
- Vol. 5 (1) , 33-68
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123400008036
Abstract
In this analysis we have used a procedure based on estimating likelihoods, from background characteristics, of someone's - or something's - belonging in some category of a dependent variable. We have tried to demonstrate the applicability of this procedure to the specific task of distinguishing activists from ordinary electors in five divergent British localities, with a view to its general use in the prediction and description of initial participation and of activist dropout. The conclusions are:Keywords
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