A Unified Theory of Voting Hardback: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models - Hardcover

Merrill, III; Grofman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521662222 ISBN 13: 9780521662222

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

The authors develop a unified model that incorporates voter motivations and assess its empirical predictions - for both voter choice and candidate strategy - in the US, Norway, and France. The analyses show that a combination of proximity, direction, discounting, and party ID are compatible with the mildly but not extremely divergent policies that are characteristic of many two-party and multiparty electorates.

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Críticas:

'... the most significant contribution of this book is that it successfully derives explanations for macroscopic phenomenon, such as the nature of party system and government alternations, based on the proximity, directional and mixed models of micro-level voting behaviour.' Japanese Journal of Political Science

Contraportada:

"This book addresses the questions: How do voters use their own issue positions and those of candidates to decide how to vote? How do candidates choose policy positions in response to the behavior of voters? Does a voter tend to choose the candidate who most nearly shares the views of the voter or rather a candidate who holds more extreme or intense views but in the same direction as the voter, perhaps because voters discount candidates' abilities to implement the policies they advocate? The authors develop a unified model that incorporates these and other voter motivations and, using conditional logit and other statistical methods, assess its empirical predictions - for both voter choice and candidate strategy - in the United States, Norway, and France."--BOOK JACKET.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0521662222
• ISBN 13: 9780521662222
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 229