Volume 4, Number 2 (Spring) 1969
Heffernan, W. Joseph, Jr. 1969. "Research Notes on the Conventional Political Behavior of the Poor." Journal of Human Resources 4(2):253-259.
Like the majority of the American public, the poor read newspapers, they talk to their friends and relatives about public issues, they vote, they campaign for issues and candidates and seek to influence the vote of others. Sometimes they even assume leadership roles in political organizations. These are the conventional modes of political behavior. While some of the poor engage in all of these activities, it is generally assumed that they have a pattern of participation which is markedly different from that of the nonpoor. The purpose of this investigation was to cast some additional light on the question of how the poor differ from the nonpoor in their levels of participation in politics, and to see if the standard factors which have traditionally been associated with involvement in politics operate similarly in both groups.
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