Voting The Agenda: Candidates, Elections, And Ballot Propositions - Couverture rigide

Nicholson, Stephen P.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691116849 ISBN 13 : 9780691116846

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2005

Synopsis

How do voters make decisions in low-information elections? How distinctive are these voting decisions? Traditional approaches to the study of voting and elections often fail to address these questions by ignoring other elections taking place simultaneously. In this groundbreaking book, Stephen Nicholson shows how issue agendas shaped by state ballot propositions prime voting decisions for presidential, gubernatorial, Senate, House, and state legislative races.

As a readily accessible source of information, the issues raised by ballot propositions may have a spillover effect on elections and ultimately define the meaning of myriad contests. Nicholson examines issues that appear on the ballot alongside candidates in the form of direct legislation. Found in all fifty states, but most abundant in those states that feature citizen-initiated ballot propositions, direct legislation represents a large and growing source of agenda issues.

Looking at direct legislation issues such as abortion, taxes, environmental regulation, the nuclear freeze, illegal immigration, and affirmative action, Nicholson finds that these topics shaped voters' choices of candidates even if the issues were not featured in a particular contest or were not relevant to the job responsibilities of a particular office.

He concludes that the agendas established by ballot propositions have a far greater effect in priming voters than is commonly recognized, and indeed, that the strategic use of initiatives and referenda by political elites potentially thwarts the will of the people.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen P. Nicholson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Merced. In 1999, he received the E. E. Schattschneider Award from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation on American politics, and in 2006 he won the Emerging Scholar Award from the association's Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section. Nicholson has published articles in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and Political Research Quarterly.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691116849
• ISBN 13: 9780691116846
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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