caa a22 4500 388079819 CHVBK 20180307125210.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/2585767 doi S0003055400216687 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/2585767 Prospecting for Participants: Rational Expectations and the Recruitment of Political Activists [Elektronische Daten] A survey of the American public is used to model citizen political recruitment as a two-stage process. First, those who recruit others to become active in politics seek likely activists through "rational prospecting.” Second, they seek acquiescence to their requests. We model each part of the process, delineating the characteristics of individuals that make them attractive prospects and that make them likely to say "yes.” Recruiters who have information about, and leverage over, their targets are more likely to be successful. In seeking out people who would be likely not only to participate but also to participate effectively, rational prospectors select people with characteristics that are already overrepresented among participants. The net result of the recruitment process for political activity in general—and for financial contributions, in particular—is to exacerbate participatory stratification. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999 Brady Henry E. University of California, Berkeley Schlozman Kay Lehman Boston College Verba Sidney Harvard University American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/1(1999-03), 153-168 0003-0554 93:1<153 1999 93 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/2585767 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/2585767 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Brady Henry E. University of California, Berkeley NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schlozman Kay Lehman Boston College NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Verba Sidney Harvard University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 93/1(1999-03), 153-168 0003-0554 93:1<153 1999 93 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge