Abstract:This case study underscores the importance of using age-period-cohort models to disentangle life cycle, generational, and election-specific effects when examining the determinants of long-term political change. I illustrate how these models can be used to study the impact on turnout of the decline in the competitiveness of British elections over the last 50 years, while controlling for other factors that may mask the relationship of interest. A key issue with age-period-cohort models is that standard statistic… Show more
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