For a class I'm preparing to teach, I'm looking for (estimated) data on the numbers of U.S. citizens who engage in political activities beyond voting, such as
1. volunteering in campaigns,
2. contributing to campaigns,
3. working as election officers at the polls on election day,
4. contacting legislators, and
5. commenting to agencies about proposed administrative rulemaking.
they are many indicators : the syndicate part of the population, in big decrease - https://journals.openedition.org/mimmoc/1610
they are probably statistics on numbers of people in demonstrations. Numbers of strikes days.
But I quote, mobilisations could grow really fast, on crises, election, feminism questions and weapon prohibition.
u should study those movements, make observations and see what searchers right on it.
Unfortunately, to get a real picture, it does get rather involved...
Not in any order.
1) You can contact individual campaigns (web sites) on participation (paid and volunteers) and donation information.
2) The different parties provide numbers for volunteers, staffs, etc. and donations.
3) The Federal Election Commission has numbers on reported donations.
4) The Poll volunteers would be from several sources, local and state election boards, as well as, individual parties for poll watchers.
5) The state election boards can also provide voting participation stats.
6) You also have to research PACs and specific issue oriented groups.
President Obama's campaign was really the first to use social media effectively, President Trump practically pumped it with steroids.
And, you still have to consider the effects of the old and new media.
You do have to remember, small donations (don't recall the thresh hold amount) do not have to be individually recorded and can skew perceptions of what is actually going on.
And Lastly: https://uselectionatlas.org/ for actual election results which in reality, is the only participation poll that matters considering several groups have large numbers volunteering but have a low participation rate in voting.
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