TY  - BOOK
AU  - Joslyn,Mark R.
TI  - The gun gap: the influence of gun ownership on political behavior and attitudes 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780190064860 (ebook) :
AV  - HV8059 .J67 2020
U1  - 323.0420973 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Firearms owners
KW  - Political activity
KW  - United States
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Firearms ownership
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Also issued in print: 2020; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - To understand public opinion and political behaviour, researchers typically sort people by self-identified groupings such as party identification, race, gender, education, and income. This book advances gun owners as a new classification. It demonstrates a "gun gap," which captures the differences between gun owners and nonowners, and shows how this gap improves conventional models of political behaviour. The gun gap in fact represents an important explanation for voter choice, voter turnout, perceptions of personal and public safety, preferences for gun control policies, and support for the death penalty. Moreover, the gun gap is growing. The 2016 presidential election witnessed the largest recorded gun gap in history. The gun gap in voter choice was nearly three times larger in 2016 than the gender gap, and it exceeded age and education gaps by notable margins
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ER  -