TO VOTE OR NOT TO VOTE: The Merits and Limits of Rational Choice Theory (Political Science) - Softcover

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822957345 ISBN 13: 9780822957348

Verlag: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS, 2000

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Blais examines the vital issues of what makes people decide to vote in political elections and referendums. The informative and very highly recommended text is enhanced for political sciece students with a pertinent mumber of relevant appendices. --Wisconsin Bookwatch

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What makes people vote? In addressing this simple question, Andre Blais examines the factors that increase or decrease turnout at the aggregate, cross-national level and considers what affects people's decision to vote or abstain. In doing so, Blais assesses the merits and limitations of the rational choice model in explaining voter behaviour. The past few decades have witnessed a rise in the popularity of the rational choice model in accounting for voter turnout, and more recently a groundswell of outspoken opposition to rational choice theory. Blais brings together the opposing theories and literatures, and offers tests of these different viewpoints. Using new data sets from many countries, Blais concludes that while rational choice is an important tool - even when it doesn't work - its empirical contribution to understanding why people vote is quite limited.

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• Verlag: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0822957345
• ISBN 13: 9780822957348
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208