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The relationship between age and political activity represents a uniformity ,in political behavior found in many studies. Lester Milbrath summarizes that uniformity, noting that, Participation rises gradually with age, reaches its peak and levels off in the forties and fifties, and gradually declines above sixty.1 He cites several studies from a variety of nations where this pattern has been found; in most cases these findings are in relation to voting turnout.2 Recent studies in the United States indicate, however, that when the different educational levels of the various age strata are taken into account, the decline in voting turnout among the elderly largely disappears.3 This issue will be explored further in this article, utilizing data from a cross-national study of political participation. Several objectives warrant this approach:
Nie et al. (1974) studied this question.