A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models - Couverture rigide

Merrill III, Samuel; Grofman, Bernard

 
9780521662222: A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521662222 ISBN 13 : 9780521662222
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This book addresses the questions: how do voters use their own issue positions and those of candidates to decide how to vote? Does a voter tend to choose the candidate who most closely shares the views of the voter or rather a candidate who holds more extreme views due to the fact that the voters discount the candidates' abilities to implement policy. The authors develop a unified model that incorporates these and other 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. All of these motivations are necessary to understand the linkage between candidate issue positions and voter preferences.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This book addresses the questions: how do voters use their own issue positions and those of candidates to decide how to vote? Does a voter tend to choose the candidate who most closely shares the views of the voter or rather a candidate who holds more extreme views due to the fact that the voters discount the candidates' abilities to implement policy. The authors develop a unified model that incorporates these and other 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. All of these motivations are necessary to understand the linkage between candidate issue positions and voter preferences.

Revue de presse

'... 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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521662222
ISBN 13 
9780521662222
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
230
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9780521665490: A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional And Proximity Spatial Models

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521665493 ISBN 13 :  9780521665490
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1999
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