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1 online resource : text file, PDF |
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Routledge International Handbooks |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Lists of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Editors' introduction -- in defense of political science; Part I Theoretical approaches to the study of voter behavior; 1 Democratic theory and electoral behavior; 2 The sociological and social-psychological approaches; 3 Rational choice theory and voting; 4 Institutions and voting behavior; Part II Turnout: why people vote (or don't); 5 The big picture: turnout at the macro-level; 6 Demographics and the social bases of voter turnout |
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7 Turnout and the calculus of voting: recent advances and prospects for integration with theories of campaigns and elections8 Voting and the expanding repertoire of participation; 9 The acquisition of voting habits; Part III Determinants of vote choice; 10 Long-term factors: class and religious cleavages; 11 Ideology and electoral choice; 12 Party identification; 13 Trends in partisanship; 14 Politics, media and the electoral role of party leaders; 15 Preferences, constraints, and choices: tactical voting in mass elections; 16 Economic voting; Part IV The role of context and campaigns |
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17 Electoral systems18 Electoral integrity; 19 Voting behavior in multi-level electoral systems; 20 Local context, social networks and neighborhood effects on voter choice; 21 Voting behavior in referendums; 22 Networks, contexts, and the process of political influence; 23 Persuasion and mobilization efforts by parties and candidates; 24 Campaign strategies, media, and voters: the fourth era of political communication; 25 The role of mass media in shaping public opinion and voter behavior; 26 Digital campaigning; Part V The nature of public opinion; 27 Attitudes, values and belief systems |
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28 The stability of political attitudes29 Political knowledge: measurement, misinformation and turnout; 30 Is there a rational public?; 31 The geometry of party competition: parties and voters in the issue space; 32 The thermostatic model: the public, policy and politics; 33 Regime support; 34 Generational replacement: engine of electoral change; Part VI Methodological challenges and new developments; 35 Selecting the dependent variable in electoral studies: choice or preference?; 36 The quest for representative survey samples |
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37 Horses for courses: using internet surveys for researching public opinion and voting behavior38 The use of aggregate data in the study of voting behavior: ecological inference, ecological fallacy and other applications; 39 Election forecasting; 40 Field experiments in political behavior; 41 Making inferences about elections and public opinion using incidentally collected data; Index |
| Summary |
"The study of elections, voting behavior and public opinion are arguably among the most prominent and intensively researched sub-fields within Political Science. It is an evolving sub-field, both in terms of theoretical focus and in particular, technical developments and has made a considerable impact on popular understanding of the core components of liberal democracies in terms of electoral systems and outcomes, changes in public opinion and the aggregation of interests.?This handbook details the key developments and state of the art research across elections, voting behavior and the public opinion by providing both an advanced overview of each core area and engaging in debate about the relative merits of differing approaches in a comprehensive and accessible way. Bringing geographical scope and depth, with comparative chapters that draw on material from across the globe, it will be a key reference point both for advanced level students and researchers developing knowledge and producing new material in these sub-fields and beyond.?The Routledge Handbook of Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion is an authoritative and key reference text for students, academics and researchers engaged in the study of electoral research, public opinion and voting behavior."--Provided by publisher |
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Voting research.
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Elections.
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Public opinion -- Political aspects
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elections.
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Elections
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Public opinion -- Political aspects
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Voting research
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Fieldhouse, Edward
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Franklin, Mark N
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Gibson, Rachel
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Cantijoch, Marta
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Wlezien, Christopher
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| ISBN |
9781315712390 |
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1315712393 |
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