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Corey, Elizabeth; Garand, James C.

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“…Johnson and Libecap (1991 found that federal employees did not turn out at a higher rate in 1984 or 1986; however, the turnout rate was higher for local government employees. Garand et al (1991) found that government employees turned out at higher rates in 1982and 1986, but not 1984. Corey and Garand (2002 also found a positive effect of government employment on turnout in 1996.…”

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“…Similarly, Jensen et al (2009) and Tepe (2012) also only include demographic variables. Corey and Garand (2002) used a probit model and controlled for numerous demographic, knowledge, and political variables; this model will be replicated in this study.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…While there may be a statistically significant relationship when a variable is viewed in isolation, when analyzed in comparison to the other variables in the model, government employment may not actually have any impact. For example, while Corey and Garand (2002) did describe the size of the coefficient of government employment for their model, interpretation of probit coefficients is notoriously tricky and not as straightforward as OLS coefficients. Therefore, this study includes plots of predicted probabilities with confidence intervals to gauge the substantive effect of government employment on turnout.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are three prongs to the theory: government employees are more likely to be liberal; government employees are more likely to vote; and government employees are more likely to vote for Democrats. The relationship between public sector employment and turnout has been analyzed for over eighty years (Martin 1933, Wolfinger and Rosenstone 1980, Garand et al 1991, Corey and Garand 2002. The BVM assumes that public sector employees have more information than the general public while also facing fewer costs to obtain that information.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Voter Turnout and Bureaucrats across Time: A Further Examination of the Bureau Voting Model in the United States

Bednarczuk

2017

Public Administration Quarterly

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Due to questions concerning the historical application of the economic theory of voting to the bureau voting model, this study takes a longitudinal look at the relationship between government employment and voter turnout in the United States. Probit and OLS models are used to examine data from the American National Election Study covering sixteen elections from 1982 to 2012. Contrary to previous findings, government employment is not shown to have an effect on voter turnout. These results suggest that the bureau voting model may need to be refined if it is to be used in future studies.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Voter Turnout and Bureaucrats across Time: A Further Examination of the Bureau Voting Model in the United States

Bednarczuk

2017

Public Administration Quarterly

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“…Besides their commitment to public organizations, public employees also have been associated with higher commitment than their private sector counterparts to vote in elections (Corey & Garand, 2002; Garand et al, 1991; Watson, 1997; Wolfinger & Rosenstone, 1980) and higher interest in volunteering (Ertas, 2014) for charity and donating blood (Houston, 2006, p. 81) and eco‐initiatives (Stritch & Christensen, 2016). Public employees are more civically active, as they perform more than one‐third more civic activities than other citizens.…”

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Organizational commitment in public servants through civic engagement

Méndez

Avellaneda

2022

Public Administration

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The public service motivation (PSM) theory has emphasized the distinctive motivational character of public employees in serving public institutions. However, scarce research has explored whether public service motivation extrapolates to civic engagement as another way to participate in public affairs. We contend that public employees' stronger sense of public interest expands toward higher engagement levels in social, economic, political, and civic organizations. Using data from the most recent wave of the World Values Survey from 2017 to 2020 in 77 countries—this study compares the degree of civic engagement of public servants with general citizens' level of engagement. Results across all world regions, except Africa, support the hypotheses that public servants are more willing to participate in civic organizations. However, public employees' civic engagement is contingent on organizational type (modern vs. traditional) and bureaucratic rank (top‐ vs. street‐level), for street‐level bureaucrats participate more in traditional but not modern organizations.

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The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Behavior

Krosnick

Visser

Harder³

2010

Handbook of Social Psychology

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A. life, liberty, and property B. honor, liberty, and peace C. liberty, health, and community D. life, respect, and equal protection E. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Educational testing research documents that performance on such items hinges not only on the respondent ' s familiarity with the question ' s subject matter but on how difficult the " distractor " response options are (e.g., Kline, 1986). For anyone who majored in American Politics in college, reading options A -D in this context might induce a smile. The distractors are all structurally similar to the right answer (naming three " rights " ), and they are all plausible. But for people who have heard about the Declaration of Independence only very occasionally in school and have never read it, this might be a much tougher question.What if the question were asked this way instead:Which of the following are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence?A. to own a boat, to laugh occasionally, and to have a good meal daily B. to have a pet, to sleep in a bed every night, and to breathe air daily C. to live, to learn, and to love D. to vacation in a country away from home, to chop vegetables with a knife, and to get regular haircuts E. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

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Cited by 48 publications

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Voter Turnout and Bureaucrats across Time: A Further Examination of the Bureau Voting Model in the United States

Voter Turnout and Bureaucrats across Time: A Further Examination of the Bureau Voting Model in the United States

Organizational commitment in public servants through civic engagement

The Psychological Underpinnings of Political Behavior

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