Electoral Behaviour

Number Of Volumes: 4
Kai Arzheimer - University of Mainz, Germany
Jocelyn Evans - University of Leeds, UK
Electoral Behaviour
July 2008 | 1648 pages | Sage UK
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This four-volume collection provides a rich overview of one of the core areas of political science research: voting. The quantitative study of voting behavior (psephology) in particular has developed as a highly specialized field since the 1980s and has spawned a vast literature from a wide array of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. This set maps out the development of psephology in the post-war period to its current state, and covers the following broad themes:
  • Historical evolution of voting studies
  • Sociological models
  • Cognition and the voter calculus
  • Electoral systems
  • The electoral context
  • Debates and methodology

Contents

VOLUME 1: SOCIAL-POLITICAL MODELS

  • Introduction
  • Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-national perspectives
  • A Suggested Index of the Association of Social Class and Voting
  • Religious vs. Linguistic vs. Class Voting: The "crucial experiment" of comparing Belgium, Canada, South Africa, and Switzerland
  • Intergenerational Class Mobility in Three Western European Societies. England, France and Sweden
  • Class Mobility and Political Preferences: Individual and contextual effects
  • The Developmental Theory of the Gender Gap: Women's and men's voting behavior in global perspective
  • Political Cleavage: A conceptual and theoretical analysis
  • A Theory of Critical Elections
  • Political Party Identification and Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy
  • The Concept of a Normal Vote
  • The Transmission of Political Values from Parent to Child
  • The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
  • The Systematic Beliefs of the Mass Public: Estimating policy preferences with survey data
  • Stability and Change in 1960. A reinstating election
  • A Dynamic Simultaneous Equation Model of Electoral Choice
  • An Outline for a Model of Party Choice
  • Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996

VOLUME 2: COGNITION AND THE VOTER CALCULUS

  • Stability in Competition
  • A Theory of the Calculus of Voting
  • The Paradox of not Voting
  • Costs of Voting and Nonvoting
  • Is Turnout the Paradox that Ate Rational Choice Theory?
  • Spatial Models of Party Competition
  • The Neglected Role of the Status Quo in Models of Issue Voting
  • The Measurement of Core Beliefs and Values: The development of balanced socialist / laissez faire and libertarian / authoritarian scales
  • A Directional Theory of Issue Voting
  • Political Leadership and Representation in Western Democracies: A test of three models of voting
  • The Impact of a Presidential Debate on Voter Rationality
  • Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
  • A New Spatial Theory of Party Competition: Uncertainty, Ideology and policy equilibria viewed comparatively and temporally
  • Interest vs. Symbolic Politics in Policy Attitudes and Presidential Voting
  • Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice
  • Foreign Affairs and Issue Voting: Do presidential candidates "waltz before a blind audience?"
  • Anxiety, Enthusiasm, and the Vote: The motivational underpinnings of learning and involvement during presidential campaigns

VOLUME 3: FORECASTING AND ELECTORIAL CONTEXT

  • Nine National Second-order Elections: A systematic framework for the analysis of European election results
  • Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies During the 1980s
  • Individual and Systemic Influences on Turnout: Who votes?
  • What Voters Teach us about Europe-wide Elections: what Europe-wide elections teach us about voters
  • Presidential Popularity from Truman to Johnson
  • Short-term Fluctuations in US voting Behaviour, 1896-1964
  • The Vp-function - A Survey of the Literature on Vote and Popularity Functions after 25 Years
  • Who's the Chef? Economic voting under a dual executive
  • Emotional Reactions to the Economy: I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore
  • A Cross-national Analysis of Economic Voting: Taking account of the political context
  • The Real Economy and the Perceived Economy in Popularity Functions: How much do voters need to know? A study of British data, 1974-97
  • The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions
  • Why are American Presidential Election Campaigns Polls so Variable when Votes are so Predictable
  • Altering the Foundations of Support for the President through Priming
  • Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate
  • Messages Received: The political impact of media exposure
  • Political Context and Attitude Change

VOLUME 4: DEBATES AND METHODOLOGY

  • The Veil of Insignificance
  • Attitudes and Voting Behaviour: An application of the theory of reasoned action
  • Secular Realignment and the Party System
  • The Silent Revolution in Europe: Intergenerational change in post-industrial societies
  • Cognitive Mobilization and Partisan Dealignment in Advanced Industrial Democracies
  • Plus ça Change... The new Cps Election Study Panel
  • Issue Evolution, Population Replacement and Normal Partisan Change
  • The Dynamics of Aggregate Partisanship
  • Ideological Realignment in the US Electorate
  • Recall Accuracy and its Determinants
  • Design Issue in Electoral Research: Taking care of (core) business
  • "It's not Like that Round here": Region, economic evaluations and voting at the 1992 British general election
  • The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: a field experiment
  • Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals
  • The Economic Crisis of the 1930s and the Nazi Vote
  • Response Latency Versus Certainty as Indexes of the Strength of Voting Intentions in a Cati Survey
  • A New approach for Modelling Strategic Voting in Multiparty Elections

Description

This four-volume collection provides a rich overview of one of the core areas of political science research: voting. The quantitative study of voting behavior (psephology) in particular has developed as a highly specialized field since the 1980s and has spawned a vast literature from a wide array of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. This set maps out the development of psephology in the post-war period to its current state, and covers the following broad themes:
  • Historical evolution of voting studies
  • Sociological models
  • Cognition and the voter calculus
  • Electoral systems
  • The electoral context
  • Debates and methodology

Contents

VOLUME 1: SOCIAL-POLITICAL MODELS

  • Introduction
  • Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-national perspectives
  • A Suggested Index of the Association of Social Class and Voting
  • Religious vs. Linguistic vs. Class Voting: The "crucial experiment" of comparing Belgium, Canada, South Africa, and Switzerland
  • Intergenerational Class Mobility in Three Western European Societies. England, France and Sweden
  • Class Mobility and Political Preferences: Individual and contextual effects
  • The Developmental Theory of the Gender Gap: Women's and men's voting behavior in global perspective
  • Political Cleavage: A conceptual and theoretical analysis
  • A Theory of Critical Elections
  • Political Party Identification and Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy
  • The Concept of a Normal Vote
  • The Transmission of Political Values from Parent to Child
  • The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
  • The Systematic Beliefs of the Mass Public: Estimating policy preferences with survey data
  • Stability and Change in 1960. A reinstating election
  • A Dynamic Simultaneous Equation Model of Electoral Choice
  • An Outline for a Model of Party Choice
  • Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996

VOLUME 2: COGNITION AND THE VOTER CALCULUS

  • Stability in Competition
  • A Theory of the Calculus of Voting
  • The Paradox of not Voting
  • Costs of Voting and Nonvoting
  • Is Turnout the Paradox that Ate Rational Choice Theory?
  • Spatial Models of Party Competition
  • The Neglected Role of the Status Quo in Models of Issue Voting
  • The Measurement of Core Beliefs and Values: The development of balanced socialist / laissez faire and libertarian / authoritarian scales
  • A Directional Theory of Issue Voting
  • Political Leadership and Representation in Western Democracies: A test of three models of voting
  • The Impact of a Presidential Debate on Voter Rationality
  • Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
  • A New Spatial Theory of Party Competition: Uncertainty, Ideology and policy equilibria viewed comparatively and temporally
  • Interest vs. Symbolic Politics in Policy Attitudes and Presidential Voting
  • Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice
  • Foreign Affairs and Issue Voting: Do presidential candidates "waltz before a blind audience?"
  • Anxiety, Enthusiasm, and the Vote: The motivational underpinnings of learning and involvement during presidential campaigns

VOLUME 3: FORECASTING AND ELECTORIAL CONTEXT

  • Nine National Second-order Elections: A systematic framework for the analysis of European election results
  • Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies During the 1980s
  • Individual and Systemic Influences on Turnout: Who votes?
  • What Voters Teach us about Europe-wide Elections: what Europe-wide elections teach us about voters
  • Presidential Popularity from Truman to Johnson
  • Short-term Fluctuations in US voting Behaviour, 1896-1964
  • The Vp-function - A Survey of the Literature on Vote and Popularity Functions after 25 Years
  • Who's the Chef? Economic voting under a dual executive
  • Emotional Reactions to the Economy: I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore
  • A Cross-national Analysis of Economic Voting: Taking account of the political context
  • The Real Economy and the Perceived Economy in Popularity Functions: How much do voters need to know? A study of British data, 1974-97
  • The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions
  • Why are American Presidential Election Campaigns Polls so Variable when Votes are so Predictable
  • Altering the Foundations of Support for the President through Priming
  • Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate
  • Messages Received: The political impact of media exposure
  • Political Context and Attitude Change

VOLUME 4: DEBATES AND METHODOLOGY

  • The Veil of Insignificance
  • Attitudes and Voting Behaviour: An application of the theory of reasoned action
  • Secular Realignment and the Party System
  • The Silent Revolution in Europe: Intergenerational change in post-industrial societies
  • Cognitive Mobilization and Partisan Dealignment in Advanced Industrial Democracies
  • Plus ça Change... The new Cps Election Study Panel
  • Issue Evolution, Population Replacement and Normal Partisan Change
  • The Dynamics of Aggregate Partisanship
  • Ideological Realignment in the US Electorate
  • Recall Accuracy and its Determinants
  • Design Issue in Electoral Research: Taking care of (core) business
  • "It's not Like that Round here": Region, economic evaluations and voting at the 1992 British general election
  • The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: a field experiment
  • Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals
  • The Economic Crisis of the 1930s and the Nazi Vote
  • Response Latency Versus Certainty as Indexes of the Strength of Voting Intentions in a Cati Survey
  • A New approach for Modelling Strategic Voting in Multiparty Elections
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Electoral Behaviour


July 2008 | 1648 pages | Sage UK

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This four-volume collection provides a rich overview of one of the core areas of political science research: voting. The quantitative study of voting behavior (psephology) in particular has developed as a highly specialized field since the 1980s and has spawned a vast literature from a wide array of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. This set maps out the development of psephology in the post-war period to its current state, and covers the following broad themes:
  • Historical evolution of voting studies
  • Sociological models
  • Cognition and the voter calculus
  • Electoral systems
  • The electoral context
  • Debates and methodology

Table Of Contents:

  • VOLUME 1: SOCIAL-POLITICAL MODELS
  • Introduction
  • Party Systems and Voter Alignments: Cross-national perspectives
  • A Suggested Index of the Association of Social Class and Voting
  • Religious vs. Linguistic vs. Class Voting: The "crucial experiment" of comparing Belgium, Canada, South Africa, and Switzerland
  • Intergenerational Class Mobility in Three Western European Societies. England, France and Sweden
  • Class Mobility and Political Preferences: Individual and contextual effects
  • The Developmental Theory of the Gender Gap: Women's and men's voting behavior in global perspective
  • Political Cleavage: A conceptual and theoretical analysis
  • A Theory of Critical Elections
  • Political Party Identification and Attitudes Toward Foreign Policy
  • The Concept of a Normal Vote
  • The Transmission of Political Values from Parent to Child
  • The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics
  • The Systematic Beliefs of the Mass Public: Estimating policy preferences with survey data
  • Stability and Change in 1960. A reinstating election
  • A Dynamic Simultaneous Equation Model of Electoral Choice
  • An Outline for a Model of Party Choice
  • Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996
  • VOLUME 2: COGNITION AND THE VOTER CALCULUS
  • Stability in Competition
  • A Theory of the Calculus of Voting
  • The Paradox of not Voting
  • Costs of Voting and Nonvoting
  • Is Turnout the Paradox that Ate Rational Choice Theory?
  • Spatial Models of Party Competition
  • The Neglected Role of the Status Quo in Models of Issue Voting
  • The Measurement of Core Beliefs and Values: The development of balanced socialist / laissez faire and libertarian / authoritarian scales
  • A Directional Theory of Issue Voting
  • Political Leadership and Representation in Western Democracies: A test of three models of voting
  • The Impact of a Presidential Debate on Voter Rationality
  • Issue Ownership in Presidential Elections, with a 1980 Case Study
  • A New Spatial Theory of Party Competition: Uncertainty, Ideology and policy equilibria viewed comparatively and temporally
  • Interest vs. Symbolic Politics in Policy Attitudes and Presidential Voting
  • Contrasting Rational and Psychological Analyses of Political Choice
  • Foreign Affairs and Issue Voting: Do presidential candidates "waltz before a blind audience?"
  • Anxiety, Enthusiasm, and the Vote: The motivational underpinnings of learning and involvement during presidential campaigns
  • VOLUME 3: FORECASTING AND ELECTORIAL CONTEXT
  • Nine National Second-order Elections: A systematic framework for the analysis of European election results
  • Voter Turnout in the Industrial Democracies During the 1980s
  • Individual and Systemic Influences on Turnout: Who votes?
  • What Voters Teach us about Europe-wide Elections: what Europe-wide elections teach us about voters
  • Presidential Popularity from Truman to Johnson
  • Short-term Fluctuations in US voting Behaviour, 1896-1964
  • The Vp-function - A Survey of the Literature on Vote and Popularity Functions after 25 Years
  • Who's the Chef? Economic voting under a dual executive
  • Emotional Reactions to the Economy: I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore
  • A Cross-national Analysis of Economic Voting: Taking account of the political context
  • The Real Economy and the Perceived Economy in Popularity Functions: How much do voters need to know? A study of British data, 1974-97
  • The Political Conditioning of Economic Perceptions
  • Why are American Presidential Election Campaigns Polls so Variable when Votes are so Predictable
  • Altering the Foundations of Support for the President through Priming
  • Does Attack Advertising Demobilize the Electorate
  • Messages Received: The political impact of media exposure
  • Political Context and Attitude Change
  • VOLUME 4: DEBATES AND METHODOLOGY
  • The Veil of Insignificance
  • Attitudes and Voting Behaviour: An application of the theory of reasoned action
  • Secular Realignment and the Party System
  • The Silent Revolution in Europe: Intergenerational change in post-industrial societies
  • Cognitive Mobilization and Partisan Dealignment in Advanced Industrial Democracies
  • Plus ça Change... The new Cps Election Study Panel
  • Issue Evolution, Population Replacement and Normal Partisan Change
  • The Dynamics of Aggregate Partisanship
  • Ideological Realignment in the US Electorate
  • Recall Accuracy and its Determinants
  • Design Issue in Electoral Research: Taking care of (core) business
  • "It's not Like that Round here": Region, economic evaluations and voting at the 1992 British general election
  • The Effects of Canvassing, Telephone Calls, and Direct Mail on Voter Turnout: a field experiment
  • Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals
  • The Economic Crisis of the 1930s and the Nazi Vote
  • Response Latency Versus Certainty as Indexes of the Strength of Voting Intentions in a Cati Survey
  • A New approach for Modelling Strategic Voting in Multiparty Elections

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