Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life

List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Chapter One: Introduction: Voting Alone 1 Part One: What You Do Now Depends on Where You Are Now 11 Chapter Two: Putting Madison and Tocqueville to the Test: The Dual Motivations Theory of Public Engagement 13 Chapter Three: Further Implications of the Dual Motivations Theory 50 Chapter Four: Social Networks 76 Part Two: What You Did Then Depends on Where You Were Then 93 Chapter Five: Social Environments and Adolescents' Public Engagement 95 Part Three: What You Do Now Depends on What You Did Then 129 Chapter Six: The Links between Adolescents' and Adults' Public Engagement 131 Part Four: What You Do Now Depends on Where You Were Then 145 Chapter Seven: Adolescents' Social Environments and Adults' Public Engagement: The Civic Motivation Model 147 Chapter Eight: Conclusion: Implications for Theory and Policy 180 Appendix A: Data Sources 201 Appendix B: Questions from the 1996 National Election Study Used in Table 2.1 and Figure 2.4 204 Appendix C: Full Results of Models Discussed in the Text 208 Notes 223 Bibliography 243 Index 261