14084. WHY AMERICANS DON’T VOTE: TURNOUT DECLINE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1960-1984 BY RUY TEIXEIRA. This paper provides a review and critique of Teixeira’s book investigating and explaining the decline in American voter turnout during the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. The paper summarizes Teixeira’s findings regarding socio-political and demographic explanations for the decline in voter turnout. KEYWORDS: book review voter turnout political participation statistical analysis. MLA Style. 6 pages, 10 footnotes, 1 bibliographic source.