Community Attachment and Voting for School Vouchers

Matthew J. Burbank and Daniel Levin

Social Science Quarterly, 2015, vol. 96, issue 5, 1169-1177

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The analysis of public support for school voucher programs has focused on economic self-interest and has paid little attention to the role of community. We propose a model of support for school vouchers that focuses on community attachment. We theorize that areas with growing residential populations will have less community attachment and be more supportive of school voucher programs while areas with long-established residents will have stronger attachments to their community institutions and be less supportive of voucher programs.

We test this community attachment model using data from a 2007 Utah referendum on school vouchers combined with demographic data.

The data show support for the community attachment model after controlling for the effects of partisanship and socioeconomic factors.

Our analysis suggests that the nature of community life is an important consideration for understanding the appeal of public school voucher programs.

Date: 2015
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